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What if Public Transportation Could Advertise Like Cars?

Written by Joshua Liberles

Thursday, 21 February 2008

Cars dominate the American landscape for a variety of reasons: the way our communities are constructed, the various subsidies in place, politics, and, of course, the money that car and oil companies can make by pushing their wares.

Advertising helps keep the car markets going strong. Can you imagine a world where public transportation had a similar budget to create TV ads on par with the automobile variety? Maybe commuters would come to believe that riding the train had just as much sex appeal as sitting in traffic in a Lexus SUV.

For a vision of what such a world might look like, check out this ad for Madrid Metro:

Via MetroRiderLA

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Todd Edelman said:

Wow, that ad for Metro Madrid is just lovely.

To see some examples of ads paid for by auto companies , against public transport, but also on public transport vehicles and in stations, see http://www.flickr.com/photos/e...171242536/

February 22, 2008 | url

mark said:

Kind of sad that all the google ads for this article are all advertising CARS! "ads by google" needs the carectomy!

March 30, 2008

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