Enterprise Car Club has teamed up with Translink to bring its car club services to Belfast’s Lanyon Place and Great Victoria Street railway stations.

L-R: Wilson Walker, Translink car parks and facilities manager; Adam Coulter, Enterprise Car Club; Colin Burns, assistant southern route manager, NI Railways

The tie-up forms part of the commitment by both organisations to provide more sustainable travel options for people.

Each station will get two low-emission car club vehicles, available to rent by the hour or by the day. These join the existing car club fleet based at Enterprise Rent-A-Car branches in Belfast, Omagh and Portadown.

Vehicles can be booked by car club members via an app, online or by phone and then accessed using the app.

Dan Gursel, managing director of Enterprise Car Club, said: “There is increasing demand from people for integrated mobility services, which make it easy to move between public and shared transport such as car clubs.

“This initiative brings that option to residents, businesses and visitors in Belfast. We already have car club vehicles based at or very close to railway stations in England and Scotland and have seen how people integrate rail and car club into travel plans.

“Car club also helps reduce congestion and improve air quality as each car club vehicle takes 20 private cars off the road. We also know that people with their own vehicle find value in using car club for when they need the occasional use of a second vehicle or a car for just part of a journey.”

For Translink, the tie-up supports its commitment to deliver a 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 and fully achieve net zero by 2040, in line with its Climate Action Pledge and science-based targets.

Wilson Walker, car parks and facilities manager, added: “We are pleased to be able to work alongside Enterprise Car Club to deliver this low-emission service at two of our key train stations in Belfast city centre, helping to facilitate a reduction in emissions and congestion and an improvement in public health, as well as encouraging more people to use public transport options to get to where they need to be, thus building a better-connected future for everyone.”