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CMT honored WeCAr with the Sandra Schoenberg Kling New Initiatives award at its 24th Annual Meeting on Sept. 5. This year’s award recipient is an innovative carsharing program for commuters and residents, WeCar, in St. Louis introduced by Enterprise Rent-A-Car in January, 2008. A carsharing program allows commuters and residents to ‘share’ a car thus removing the need to own that second car if you are a resident. It also provides the answer for commuters who can now take the MetroLink, MetroBus or other alternative mode to work if there is an outside meeting or errand during the work day. Participants go online to book a car and still take the MetroLink, MetroBus or other mode home for the day.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car introduced WeCar to the St. Louis market as a pilot program for a national campaign. Since its inception, WeCar has registered more than 250 participants for the program, and many companies are getting on board WeCar to replace their fleets. Currently, there are nine cars in the Downtown area and six on the Washington University campuses. Congratulations to this year’s award recipient who took the risk and initiative to bring this innovative program to St. Louis.

Special thanks goes to this year's Annual Meeting sponsors as well: Alphagraphics Development Strategies HNTB Metro Musick Constructon Co. Partnership for Downtown St. Louis SEIU Local 1 St. Clair County Transit District Transtria LLC

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