Other helpful GoManitoba content:
- Become a Bike or Bus Mentor
- Watch and share the GoManitoba video
- About GoManitoba
- Sharing the Ride: Hints and Tips to keep it safe and fun!
- GoManitoba is for Everyone
- Track Your Travel: See Results
- Single Trip Matching
- Event carpooling tool
So what is GoManitoba?
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If you are reading this, you might be a new or potential user of GoManitoba and are wondering just how to go about making this site work for you. Welcome!
GoManitoba is a province-wide commuting tool bringing the RideAmigos technology to our prairie province. This technology allows citizens from across Manitoba to connect with like-minded people to share commutes, save money, time and relieve congestion.
To get started, you need to register into the system. Simply click the Register button on the top, right-hand side of your screen.
From here, input your personal contact details. If you have a work email address, we recommend using that email as your primary contact, so the system can let you know if matches are coworkers or go to school at the same place as you.
Create Trip Profiles for the commutes you regularly make. We all have routine trips, be they to work, school, or regular errands. GoManitoba will use this data to find commute matches for you. Create profiles for any recurring trips you make, whether it’s to your workplace, to school, to a weekly meeting, or different shifts.
On the right-hand side of the page, you will see the box that says Find Commute Options. As more and more users join the system, you will see people who match with you for carpooling, biking or taking transit. Simply click on these matches to find out more about them, and if you are looking for a carpool partner, or maybe a transit or cycling mentor, you can choose to email them.
Now you are ready to log your commutes, which will calculate calories burned, emission reductions and money saved!
And remember, the more people join the website, the better all of the functions will work. So help us spread the word about GoManitoba to your friends, coworkers and family!
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I usually try to take the 110 shuttle bus out of Norwood to St. Mary’s rd to transfer to a downtown. Unfortunately if your pre call isn’t accepted in the 15 minute early am phone-in, you cannot get a bus for up to 3 hours. This winter was difficult
Wow! This is the unsafest app I’ve ever seen. Not only getting into cars with strangers, but giving them your address, and your schedule.
Hi A. We, of course, share your interest in ensuring the security of GoManitoba users. The platform we’re using for GoManitoba is RideShark (out of Ottawa), which has been around for 15 years and is being used across Canada, the US, and New Zealand.
It’s important to note that GoManitoba, like Uber, Kijiji and other apps, simply acts as the mechanism to find possible connections. Messages are sent through the app, relaying general information to assist in connecting possible commuting partners. In our blog post – Sharing the Ride: Hints and Tips to keep it safe and fun! – we have an example of what connecting with a match through GoManitoba looks like (between two people, Liz and Mel).
Liz received a message from Mel with some basic details about Mel (that she’s an experienced cyclist, the days when their commute matches, the neighbourhood she lives in, and where she’s going). Both users can see pin-points on a map of their general locations, but NOT their specific addresses (you also can’t zoom in on the map). It is up to Liz to choose to respond to this message or not. Like Kijiji, you can reach out to someone to express your interest in purchasing their old collection of VHS tapes, but it’s up to them to respond.
Hi Anna – confirming I have written a blog on the benefits of the site for those who are already commuting in healthy, sustainable ways! https://greenactioncentre.ca/featured/gomanitoba-is-for-everyone/
Could you write a post about the benefits of the site for cyclists? Also, I first did a google search of Go Manitoba (with a space), but couldn’t find the website. It is the top hit for GoManitoba. Is there anyway to make sure the website pops up either way?
Good notes, Anna! Will work on a blog for people on bikes, and also look into the google search.