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Cars available to rent by the hour
Flexcar offers convenience to students
By Mary Franzen
For new students used to having a car through most of high school, and for upperclassmen sick of busses and cabs, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee now offers a new rental car program.
Flexcar is a company from which students, faculty and staff can rent a car at $7 an hour and use it to get around town. The hourly fee covers gas and insurance premiums for the first 150 miles. After that there is a nominal additional mileage fee.
Drivers reserve the car online or by phone and pick it up at its designated location around campus and return it when finished.
UWM freshman Jessica Morman, who lives off-campus, is used to having a car at home, but couldn’t bring it school.
“I think that’s a good idea because the busses can’t take us everywhere,” Morman said. “It’s also nice because we can visit family who are not in the Milwaukee area and it’s a reasonable price.”
Morman’s family lives in Mukwonago, which is about a 40 mile drive from the
UWM campus to her home and is out the Milwaukee County bus system’s range.
Even if the reason for taking the bus is because of the environment, according to Flexcar.com, there’s no need to worry.
“Our low-emission, fuel-efficient vehicles are conveniently parked near homes and Workplaces,” their website says.
When sophomore Christopher Murphy was asked about the program, he had mixed feelings about its usefulness.
“It will depend on who has a job, how far they have to go,” Murphy said. “If you just live on campus or even around it, you don’t really need it.”
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