February 3, 2006

Vroom, Vroom

By PAULA WASLEY

Car sharing revs up on college campuses as officials grapple with parking and congestion

Until recently, faculty and staff members at the University of Massachusetts at Boston who needed a car to get to university business during the day would reserve one of the Chevrolet Luminas in the university's 10-car motor pool. But the cars, which were purchased in the 1980s, were giving in to wear and tear.

"They had really gone beyond their useful life," says Craig Pearson, the

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