(9 votes, average: 4.89 out of 5)
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May 26th, 2010
V-TARP
Here is my V-TARP entry, courtesy of Mr. Jerm.
I get on the bus and it’s all ads for debt management, fast food, television- ads from busybody organizations convincing me to keep my accidental pregnancy. Ads from government organizations offering me help to get a job. Ads from doctors offering to restore my hair AND my ability to get erections all from the same clinic. Ads from religions offering me an escape.
When your inundated with this crap, daily, with no choice, you can feel trapped. Optionless. Poor. No wonder the silence, peace and control of a private automobile is so luxurious by comparison.
Public Transit Operators Everywhere:
Want more humans to ride public transit? Make it more humane. Take out all the ads.
May 26th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Love it.
May 27th, 2010 at 5:31 am
I get the idea but I feel like the ads are there in order to keep the bus system affordable for those of us with lower income (unless your bus system already charges riders enough to pay for itself). It seems like the government job agency ads are also a good thing for everyone unless there are some issues with the way they operate. As for the rest, I’ve never been offended enough to care
Anyhow, I typically love all your ad removal campaigns. Just feel like bus ads are not quite so bad as, for instance, those info booth bikini umbrella ads you’ve shown before.
May 27th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
I’m of the school of thought that an add is an add is an add and so on and so forth.
Are the adds made to keep public transit more affordable? Yes.
Should we need something like that to fund the PUBLIC transit? No.
It will be a good day when tax dollars dont go to making roads better for drivers to cram into and go toward making safe bike lanes and multi city public transit systems.
May 27th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Love it, dude. I share the same opinion as Chro.
May 28th, 2010 at 2:24 am
Liked it, but I share the same opinion as sl87. I’ll endure an eyesore for cheaper buss/trolley fares.
May 28th, 2010 at 3:04 am
Right on! But I don’t think those ads help to defray the cost of fare. Would be better methinks for ad spots to show news/weather/movie showtimes, etc…
June 1st, 2010 at 9:45 pm
“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.” – Will Rogers