- Title: USA: COMMUTERS SHOW LITTLE ENTHUSIASM FOR CAR POOLING SCHEME
- Date: 5th February 1974
- Summary: 1. GV Commuters travelling by car along freeways (3 shots) 0.18 2. SV woman joining friend in car at pooling park 0.26 3. CU woman motorist speaking 0.43 4. GV & CU cars parked in peeling park (2 shots) at sunrise 0.50 5. SV Pool organiser and reporter cross half empty Parking lot 1.00 6. CU sign "Nassau County car pool" 1.02 7. LV women drivers beside cars 1.05 8. CU pool organiser speaking 1.14 "One-and-a-half-million people live in Nassau County on New York's Long Island and every morning it seems half of them jump into their cars heading for work in the city. About sixty days ago Nassau County officials began encouraging residents to save gas by joining car pools. Thus far, it seems that virtually no one has been responding. At seven forty-five a.m. we filmed this young woman as she parked her car in this Nassau County car pool staging area to join a friend for a ride to work". "This way I only fill up once a week. When I drove alone I used to have to fill up two, three times a week". "What about your life style. Has it be changed by having to car pool. Do you have to get up early?. "No, no, we would have to leave this ti??? anyway. The thing that has changed my life is this day-light saving drive. It's awful meeting in the dark". "As the sun broke through, we get a better look at the staging area, and spoke with Nassau County carpool organic George Dekar. Returned from meetings in Washington with Vice President Ford and Energy Chief Semens, Dekar was convinced the price of gasoline will continue to rise and gas will become harder to find. Dekar spoke about his car pooling campaign, which has thus far failed to draw large participation" "I think if there's a little more squeeze on the pocket book, if gasoline becomes a little scarcer, if it becomes more expensive you've got to provide more pools. Initials GM/1938 GM/2014 JEFF KAMEN Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 19th February 1974 12:00
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