Win a year of free transit and an iPod touch! What’s more, the first 25 individuals who submit a video entry to the contest will receive a $25 VISA cash card just for telling APTA why they dumped the pump.

As an extension of Dump the Pump day , APTA is sponsoring a user-generated video contest, asking Americans to tell us why they Dumped the Pump.

The contest is open to the public and submitted videos will be judged on creativity, content and overall impact.  The grand prize winner will receive FREE rides for a year on their local transit system and an iPod touch.  The second place winner will ride free for six months and the third place winner will be awarded a three month free pass.  APTA will provide each of the winners with their free transit pass.  Use this information to let your community know about this fun and exciting contest.

Everyone is eligible — Young and old, new and life-long riders alike! So get out your video cameras, hop on transit and tell us about it.

For full contest rules and guidelines, including detailed instructions about how to submit videos through the YouTube.com channel, are available at www.publictransportation.org/takesusthere/contest.html

Deadline – – All videos due: September 18.

If you have any questions please contact Mark Neuville with APTA at mneuville@apta.com.

(Hat Tip: Nick Perfili@ YPT)

(Source: The Infrastructurist)

Our friends at The Infrastructurist compiled the national results from that study and compare them with the demographics of transit systems in three U.S. cities: Washington, D.C., Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco (well, the Bay Area). The snapshot offers an intriguing insight into which Americans choose not to drive to work.

If FTA can spend a bunch of money on such a compilation for the entire US,  that would greatly benefit many of our professionals engaged in transportation planning & policy research.  An analysis on the issue of social equity and its underpinning to transportation alternatives would be very helpful to say the least as the country’s demographics has undergone a signficiant shift in the past decade or two.