Get Your Urban Sprawl Parking Ticket

Adbusters has created a fake but realistic parking ticket to put on vehicles that damage the environment.

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February 20, 2001, 6:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen


For those who are fighting the battle between pedestrians and vehicles, this will make your day: "Pranks, gestures and goofs serve the function of creating cognitive dissonance and interrupting the public routine. They have a very short half-life, twinkling briefly then vanishing. But if they’re ongoing and reinforced by the mass media, they begin to take on weight and significance." Adbusters provides a realistic, yet fake, parking ticket you can print and put on vehicles: "This form of transport incurs economic costs on the city which have not been included in the retail price. Your operation of this vehicle makes you personallyliable for the following: climate change, depletion of resources, gridlock, noise pollution..." and more.

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