Finally, a Commercial for Buses that Delivers
Go Transit's ad employs all the well-worn cliches from car commercials in favor of the humble, lovable bus.
3:41 PM PDT on March 20, 2019
The humble bus: so useful, so efficient, so under hyped.
But Go Transit, which serves metro Toronto, has done us all a service by creating a humorous homage to this urban transportation juggernaut in the same high-drama style of cliched car commercials.
“It’s like the self-driving car has arrived already and we saved you a seat.”
The ad is winning fan across the internet. It is a fan favorite on Reddit and Youtube, where it has about 750,000 views.
Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.
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