![]() “I feel like, I’ve been living in New England for 13 years but I’ve only really been living there for five.” “We were finally able to actually enjoy New England,” she says. She finally got a car five years ago because her husband needed to drive to his office. Wanting to go anyplace outside of the city was a complete hassle,” Dougherty says. “I have lived in Boston for 13 years now, and I remember being a student at BU and not having a car. And it’s an experience Dougherty herself can relate to. Not having cars makes it hard for younger people to really enjoy the places that they live, she says. “There’s lots of reasons why people chose not to own cars, and there’s even a movement where people aren’t getting drivers licenses anymore,” Lindsey Dougherty, marketing manager for Skedaddle, explains to Inverse. One of the important things for Skedaddle is that young people aren’t really driving like older generations. The transportation start-up that aims to move people, many of them college-aged, to places where they can experience ski trips or music festivals doesn’t seem that far removed from the lifestyles of its customer base. The only wall decoration at the office is a tattered page of the New York Times with a giant photo of Bill Maher emblazoned with the headline “Bill Maher Isn’t High on Trump.” It turns out that there’s a write-up about Skedaddle’s work just to the left of Maher’s head. It’s reminiscent of a communal sink in a college dorm. The first thing you notice in the New York offices of Skedaddle is a sink full of dirty dishes. For a company running on college students, that means one thing this time of year: SXSW, Coachella, and Spring Break road trips. In the future, the company wants to give young people access to parts of the world that were previously closed off to them.Īfter its time in the spotlight at the Women’s March, the company is eyeing its future. The real draw to Skedaddle seems to be when you live in a place you want to escape, but only sometimes, making college campuses or cities full of young transplants its main markets. It’s the idea that mass transit can be fun and inexpensive, with a system tailored to a clientele of college students. Its founders have struggled with our current mass transit system that relies on strict lines, timetables, and old infrastructure, which Nestler describes as “archaic.” They see a future where getting a bus out of the city happens on a flexible schedule and the bus comes to you. The New York-based startup wants to change mass transit. “I was on-site and it was amazing to see all these women and men dressed up with their signs ready to march.” The March overall was a great success for us,” Craig Nestler, the director of product development and co-founder of Skedaddle tells Inverse. The bus-sharing startup had blown up literally overnight. With 11,000 pink-hat wearing passengers on board for the Women’s March in Washington DC in January, Skedaddle had to stop accepting new riders.
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