“Over the next few months we will provide you with updates on software changes, pricing plans and other policy changes as appropriate.” The change in software providers means last-minute relocation services, greater booking flexibility and simplified and secure refueling include a new flexible parking permit option” to get from a parking lot being picked up on public roads and being returned at another location in a defined residential area.” “More last-minute bookings” “This will change our business and reshape carsharing in Winnipeg,” says the CEO of Peg City Car Co-opPhilip Mikulec, in a newsletter to members (New window)Tuesday.

This new method would make it possible, he emphasizes.

Mr Mikulec explains that instead of having to take the car back to where it was taken, Autos will be able to .

Other flexible car parks will be set up in the city centre, in the stock exchange district and in La Fourche.

Currently the parking spaces are from peg city are regulated by the City of Winnipeg and the company has designated parking areas. Users must therefore pick up the car at these parking lots and return it at the same place.

The zone envisaged by the cooperative would therefore imply a change in municipal regulations.

In an email, a spokesman for the city of Winnipeg confirms that in the coming weeks the public administration will present a report to elected city council officials to expand the current car-sharing parking permit program.

Peg City Car Co-op wants to start its flexible car sharing offer in June. Invited to comment on this new initiative, Peg City Car Co-op declined the interview request, preferring to discuss the matter further ahead of start time.

Peg City Car Coop acquires Communauto

Peg City Car Co-op also announces that starting in April it will join the Communauto application, which offers flexible carsharing in key Canadian markets such as Montreal and Toronto and Paris, France.

writes Philip Mikulec.

Peg City Car Co-op however, remains tight-fisted in its newsletter on the financial implications of these changes for members.

Peg City Car Co-op was launched in June 2011 with around forty members. The cooperative had set itself the goal of having more than 3,000 members by 2023 and 100 vehicles by then.