Project: What’s the Best Bus Route in America? Good & TransAlt Contest!

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Below from Good Magazine
Bicycles can be chic, subways artful, but buses? Buses are not exactly the golden child of transportation. They’re more like the red-headed step child: Deep down you know they mean well but they’re just a little harder to love.

Yet public buses are an essential form of transit in cities across the country, and they account for a big chunk of the nearly 10.2 billion trips Americans took on public transportation in 2009. We think it’s time to give a little love to one of the least celebrated modes of transit. To that end, Good Magazine has teamed up with Transportation Alternatives and an impressive group of bus-loving jurors to see and hear why your bus route is the best in America.

What is it about your bus route that you love? Is your bus driver brilliant? Is the view from your window breathtaking? Do your fellow riders characters belong in a Hemingway novel?

the OBJECTIVE

Show and tell why your bus route is the best in America.

the ASSIGNMENT

Take a photo with your camera phone (no fancy cameras please) and send it to busroutes@goodinc.com with a 140 character or less caption by Wednesday, November 10.

the REQUIREMENTS

Photos should be taken with camera phones and each caption should include the location and route. Please include your name and the best way to reach you.
Email your entry to: busroutes@goodinc.com
Tweet your entry to: @GOOD and use the hashtag #bestbusride

the DETAILS
GOOD and Transportation Alternatives will choose 15 finalists, all of whom will be featured in a GOOD Picture Show.

Our Jurors’ Selection winner will be featured in the next issue of GOOD magazine and will receive a monthly unlimited ride transit pass on your system, a year subscription to GOOD magazine, and a Transportation Alternatives’ “Room to Breathe” poster.

Our People’s Choice winner will receive a Contest Streets documentary, a Not For Tourists Guidebook, and a one-year subscription to Transportation Alternatives’ Reclaim Magazine.

Special thanks to our judges:
Earl Blumenauer, U.S. Congressman representing Portland, Oregon
Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, and president of the board of directors of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Laura Barrett, executive director, Transportation Equity Network
Maria Teresa Kumar, executive director, Voto Latino
Carla Saulter, Seattle’s “Bus Chick”
Bryan Goebel, editor in chief, Streetsblog San Francisco
Craig Nelson, managing editor, Not For Tourists guidebooks editor
Robert Sullivan, author of Rats, New York Magazine’s “Subway on the Street”
Paul Steely White, executive director, Transportation Alternatives

Go to Transportation Alternatives to learn more.