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» A Portland, Maine program allows seniors to trade in their keys in exchange for 24/7 rides. "Katherine Freund, who founded the program as an outgrowth of her graduate school project, says the key is that it uses no taxpayer money. Even if society wants all seniors to be entitled to transportation, she says, there is not enough money to meet that goal. That is how she came up with the model of a car trade-in. 'I thought, "here is all this equity depreciating in driveways from coast to coast,"' she says."