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Housing and sustainable mobility: Car sharing is one of them
30.09.2024
Car sharing in the Holliger estate: Find out how Mobility promotes sustainable mobility and enables residents to live a resource-efficient life.
Gastronomy, daycare centre, kindergarten, neighbourhood shops, an inner courtyard with an exposed city stream: The charitable settlement not far from Bern University Hospital is diverse, participatory, unifying and sustainable. When it comes to mobility, it is exemplary. A reduced number of parking spaces and a bicycle garage with around 200 spaces symbolise a low-car mobility concept. Two residential buildings are completely car-free, with one of them renting out parking spaces to its residents in exceptional and justified cases. Every two years, the vehicle ownership of all residents is surveyed.
Mobility and Holliger are the perfect fit. “Sharing is part of our idea, so sharing and the economical use of resources also makes sense in the area of mobility,” says the developer.
Cooperatives promote car sharing
Autoarm does not mean car-free. Thanks to on-site car sharing, the need for a car can be satisfied at any time. Five cooperatives provide residents with free Mobility annual membership. Tenants receive a discount from a cooperative when they take out a subscription.
“Car sharing is part of the overall mobility concept in Holliger. The conditions are set out in our rental regulations. By signing, all residents undertake to comply with them. Every two years, the vehicle ownership of all residents is surveyed.”
The developers have nothing to do with the Mobility cars. Mobility provides the vehicles and the station, reservations are made via the Mobility app, and Mobility takes care of maintenance, cleaning and any repairs to the vehicles.
Holliger: Charitable site in Bern
In 2012, the City of Bern purchased the site from Energie Wasser Bern (EWB) when the waste recycling plant was relocated. The city handed over the site to six Bernese non-profit housing cooperatives. The settlement comprises a total of six houses, of which five have been completed to date. Around 380 adults and 180 children live in around 300 cooperative apartments
Mobility is the perfect partner
We take the pressure off you
We take care of everything: cars, maintenance, installation of the charging station, 24-hour customer service, cleaning, servicing, changing tyres, etc.
We support you with the realisation, including with advertising materials and know-how
We make you flexible and sustainable
Fewer vehicles, fewer parking spaces, but more living and living space
Studies show that each Mobility car replaces 18 privately owned ones
Mobility is in perfect harmony with public transport → a third of our cars are parked at railway stations
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Emission-free travel thanks to state-of-the-art electrically powered vehicles
We bring experience and quality
Mobility has more than 3’000 vehicles at 1’600 stations throughout Switzerland
Experience in car sharing since 1997
We have a 24-hour customer service
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Photos: Patrick Besch