A car-sharing network for people who can't afford a car sounds like a smart idea, but one such program in Buffalo, N.Y., -- despite successfully attracting and maintaining members -- has encountered an unexpected obstacle that now threatens to shut it down entirely.
In 2008, Michael Galligano, a community organizer in western New York, was looking at ride service companies opening networks in cities across the country. Cities like these networks, of course, because they help reduce traffic congestion and exhaust pollution.
