Enter Our Video Contest!

Our contest

Are you tired of being stuck in traffic? Shouldn’t we have better options? In the last decade, people went from spending 18 hours per year stuck in rush hour traffic delays to a whopping 38 hours. And as we all know, time spent stuck in traffic is time you never get back.

We want you to create your most persuasive video about why we need more and better public transportation. What’s your vision of a 21st century transportation system? We'll use the winning videos to help decision-makers imagine a better future. Your video will be a critical part of an effort to educate city councils, legislatures across the country, and lawmakers in Washington, D.C.

The winner will receive a $500 prize, and will be featured on our Web site. Runners-up will win $250, $150, and honorable mentions will receive a one-year membership to U.S. PIRG.

Entries are due by July 4, 2008. For full contest rules please read below. If you need more information, please contact Jenne Turner by clicking here.

Click here to submit your video.

Contest Rules

Send us your videos by July 4, 2008. Contest entries should be no longer than 4 minutes. To win the contest, your video will need to be appropriate for a general audience.

By submitting an entry to the contest, you certify that no other person owns any portion of the content of your video. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Inc., if it faces any claims, liability, demands, or penalties of the content your submitted work.

By submitting an entry, you understand that the contest winner must permit U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Inc. to broadcast and publish the winning work in any manner that it sees fit. For example, U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Inc. may decide to use the video in another campaign or project. You understand that the winner will not receive any compensation beyond the prize money for these future uses. Also, you agree that U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Inc. may edit out parts of the winning work, prior to publication.

By submitting an entry, you agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Inc. against all claims related to the contest or future uses of the winning work that you may have.

Employees of U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Inc. or of any organization that is a member of the National Association of Organizations in the Public Interest or National Center of Organizations in the Public Interest, and the immediate family members of, and any persons domiciled with, any such employees are not eligible to enter or to win. The term “immediate family members” includes spouses, parents, grandparents, siblings, children, and grandchildren. Campus chapter students ARE eligible to win the contest. Employees may not win, but can certainly enter the contest.

Get Inspired

Thinking of submitting a video to our transit video contest? Here's some more background on our vision for a 21st century transportation system.

- Read more about transportation problems and solutions

- Get contest details, submit your video

- Check out the video entries so far...

- Tell your friends about the video contest



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Enter our video contest and show us your vision for a 21st Century transportation system.

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Join our Facebook group to ask questions about the video contest, sound off about the price of gas and the frustration of traffic, and meet like-minded citizens who want more and better public transportation!

CALPIRG's Danny Katz and Rep. Jim Costa (Calif.) joins CALPIRG students in a March spring break bike trip that promoted public transportation. Learn more about their trip here.

Background

Report: A Better Way to Go

The statistics in our video come from a report we released nationwide in March. Click here to read more.

Our transportation report, released in March, made headlines. Read the report, read our press release, or find out more about our program.

Video credits: Music: "Unreal City" by City of Progress. Photos: Jessyel Ty Gonzolez*, David Jones*, PabloeNoel*, C.K. Koay*, AP Photos Video: staff, NC3D, iStockVideo

* indicates photos obtained under a Creative Commons license.

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