Zipcar Parking 10 Cars in West Hollywood Soon [UPDATED]

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Zipcar, the world's largest and most popular car-sharing program, is setting up spots in West Hollywood next week. WeHo will welcome the fleet to the city on Wednesday, February 15.

Via a release sent out by the City of West Hollywood:

“West Hollywood is a city that has been at the forefront of innovation when it comes to urban planning and citizen/resident services,” said Mayor John J. Duran. “Zipcar is one of those initiatives that fit right into West Hollywood’s approach to smart urban planning and living. I’m happy to welcome this company to our city for the betterment of our community,” added Mayor Duran.

Zipcar offers short-term loaner vehicles for people with occasional need for four wheel transit for locals and visitors to the area. Rental rates are offered to members by the hour or the day, and those amounts include gas and insurance.

To start, Zipcar will have 10 vehicles in special parking spots at five locations around WeHo. The locations were chosen by the City and Zipcar based on their access to public transit and foot traffic. Zipcar vehicles will be at the following locations:

- Fountain Avenue east of Vista Street
- Orlando Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard
- Poinsettia Place north of Santa Monica Boulevard
- Orange Grove Avenue north of Santa Monica Boulevard
- Hancock Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard

The cars are also parked and available for rental to members in Hollywood, and by UCLA and USC.

Check out our previous coverage of Zipcar in L.A.

[UPDATE 3:21 PM to include 5th location information]

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By Lindsay William-Ross in News on February 9, 2012 1:59 PM 0 Comments

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TAPman

Flexcar *was* available around Los Angeles until they merged with Zipcar and Zipcar decided the operation was not profitable enough.
Read all about it here:
http://carsharingus.blogspot.c...
and here:
http://la.curbed.com/archives/...

Mitch Bart

Zipcar is in the process of expanding in LA. The are finally opening a Regional Office in Hollywood and are moving out of the test phase for the non-university market.

I'm pretty sure they are actively working with LADOT on the placement of vehicles in DTLA and other dense walkable/transit accessible areas within the city limits of LA such as Koreatown and North Hollywood.

I'm sure the WEHO announcement landed first because the City of West Hollywood has less bureaucracy than the City of LA.

Up_Against_The_Law

Why are there no Zipcars downtown!? [rage!] Downtown is the center of public transportation in this city and one place where a lot of residents, densely packed together, choose to live car free. Why on earth are there no Zipcars anywhere near downtown? The closest are all the way at USC.

Gary Kavanagh

The smaller company LAX Car Share operates several locations in Downtown LA.

Paul

Maybe because you can get to Downtown by train and bus, where as WeHo / USC would require only bus (until Silver Line supposedly opens).

You wouldn't need a car once you are in downtown, so you really only need to get to a spot where you can get on something that will take you to downtown.

Car Transport

that would make sense, so downtown doesn't really need it as much

Charles Carter

Zipcars would be used by downtown residents who need to go to places and appointments out of the area not served by public transportation, Access to Zipcars in downtown could also benefit employees there who get to work via public transportation, carpool or vanpool and then have a mid-day appt. to get to outside of downtown (not served by public transportation).