PORTLAND, Maine - The Maine Turnpike Authority and Maine Department of Transportation have launched a new outreach campaign to connect commuters who want to carpool for the daily drive to work.
Rebecca Grover is the Maine Turnpike Authority's Go Maine coordinator. She says at the heart of the program, which she calls EHarmony for car poolers, is new software which she says is easy to use and very private.
"If you get somebody's contact information, you send them an email that goes through the software, so you're not exchanging emails or cell phone numbers or anything like that until you decide that that's what you want to do," Grover says.
Grover says sharing costs with fellow commuters means savings on fuel and on maintenance costs. She says another benefit of the program is the availability of Go Maine's emergency ride home benefit, a free taxi or rental car ride in case of illness or a family crisis.
