Carpooling
There are nineteen very centrally located RideShare parking spaces on campus for students and employees who share the ride to campus. Consider mixing up your commute by carpooling once a week!
Nervous about getting stuck without a ride? Sign up for Emergency Ride Home, a service for people who commute in a way besides driving alone at least three times per week. Learn how to enroll
Share-A-Ride: Create or Find a Carpool, Explore Commute Alternatives
West Chester University partners with DVRPC and TMACC to offer the rideshare commuting platform, Share-A-Ride to the campus community. Share-A-Ride helps match commuters interested in establishing a carpool, connect with one another! It's free and easy to use. Just follow the steps below.
- Register with Share-A-Ride
- Receive suggested matches near you (you must be registered to see specifically fellow WCU commuters)
- Reach out to the match that works best for you
- Start carpooling!
- And there’s more: Share-A-Ride shows you more ways to commute to and from WCU – not just carpools, but transit routes, bike routes, and walking routes too!
WCU’s Share-A-Ride platform revolutionizes how we commute to campus by offering a secure, convenient and eco-friendly way to discover and track all the ways you can get to WCU: driving, carpooling, walking, biking, public transit use, and more.
By joining Share-A-Ride, you can not only save money and time, meet new people, and add variety to your week, but also contribute to a more sustainable future for our campus community and beyond. Let's make a difference together by embracing sustainable commuting habits with Share-A-Ride!
RideShare Parking Spaces
For Students and employees who share the ride by carpooling, WCU has nineteen centrally located rideshare parking spaces reserved for two or more people who share the ride. Look for these spaces in these parking lots:
- A Lot for Commuter Students, next to the Sharpless Street Garage
- B Lot for Employees, south of the Business and Public Management Center
- G Lot for Employees, across High Street from Philips Hall
- K Lot for Commuter Students, behind Sykes Student Union
- L Lot for Employees, off Roslyn Avenue near Rosedale Avenue
- M Lot for Commuter Students and Employees, near the E.O. Bull Center
If you feel parking spaces are hard to come by, team up with a neighbor to score one of these primo spots. Be sure to display two or more parking permit tags on the car's dashboard before walking away to ensure you won't be ticketed.