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 Media Advisory 

 11/18/2009 

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Mantill Williams
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 Woman Breaks Gas Pump's Heart to Win First Place in ‘Dump the Pump’ Nationwide Video Contest   

WASHINGTON, DC – What do a jilted gas pump, an upbeat musical depiction of the joys of avoiding traffic and an inspiring call to action to save the planet have in common?   These are the winners of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) “Dump the Pump” transit rider-generated online video contest. Participants were asked to create a video that demonstrated why they were “dumping the pump” in favor of using public transportation.

Bob Richardson of Portland, Oregon, the first place winner created a high-quality video which depicts a familiar scene of a woman dumping a significant other.  In this scene however, she is leaving the gas pump behind for a more attractive suitor – her local public transit system.
  
“The purpose of this contest was to hear from the American public transit rider in a fun and entertaining way about how public transportation is taking us to a better future – economically, environmentally, and our overall quality of life,” said Rose Sheridan, APTA Vice-President of Marketing and Communications. “We were pleased and proud of the quality and creativity we saw in these videos, which made it hard to pick a winner. That’s a great problem to have.”

The winners of the contest were chosen by a panel of APTA officials. The top three prize-winners and their awards are as follows:


Winning videos and all entries will be featured at APTA’s Public Transportation Takes Us There campaign website: http://www.publictransportation.org/takesusthere/contest_videos.html

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The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) is a nonprofit international association of more than 1,400 public and private member organizations, engaged in the areas of bus, paratransit, light rail, commuter rail, subways, waterborne passenger services, and high-speed rail. This includes: transit systems; planning, design, construction, and finance firms; product and service providers; academic institutions; transit associations and state departments of transportation. More than 90 percent of the people using public transportation in the United States and Canada are served by APTA member systems.

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