Pushing Buses: Transit takes pole position

Transit takes pole position

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This hilarious ad (seen here in situ) from Dublin sells safety with a smile if the reaction of riders is anything to go by. Yay Dublin.

Article and blog, copyright Gavin Barrett 2009

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Gavin Barrett is Owner/Founding Partner + Creative Director, of award-winning Toronto agency Barrett and Welsh.

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AnonymousMarch 5, 2009 at 12:45 PM
I think in Dublin it may be funny. I don't know the level of security women feel on the trains there, but in Los Angeles this would not be nearly as funny.

But I do like creative adds that have humor. It makes taking public transit more interesting. Public transit should be viewed as just as entertaining as driving a Mini Cooper up PCH (that's a major curvy road along in the beach in Los Angeles.) I used to speed up PCH before I gave up my car for the exciting life of a public transit user in Los Angeles. And public transit in LA is exciting!!
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Gavin Barrett is Owner/Founding Partner + Creative Director, of award-winning Toronto agency Barrett and Welsh. In pursuit of big ideas he has: nibbled on pigs' ears (not on a live pig at the time); gone elephant-back in the Thai jungle (no elephants were hurt); gambled in a Macau casino (was utterly destroyed). His ads: have run in 35 countries, helped elect prime ministers, attracted the ire of the lawyers for Dolly the clone sheep, drawn an angry crowd in Lagos, have been studied in business texts in Canada and India and received derisive mention in a John Irving novel. His poems: can be found in Penguin’s anthology of 14 contemporary Indian poets, Reasons for Belonging. He cannot: sing.