By Simon Leufstedt
Monday, 4 May, 2009

About the Author

Simon Leufstedt is the editor of Green Blog. Simon has previously studied Global Environmental Justice and is currently studying Human Ecology and Political Science at Lund University in Sweden. Simon is also blogging over at the Swedish 350 website and working with the Swedish TckTckTck organisation. You can follow Simon on Twitter.

View all posts by Simon Leufstedt

50 cars or one bus?

50 cars or 1 bus

The Swedish company Flygbussarna (shortly translated to The Flight Busses), who offers bus services to and from all the major airports in Sweden, has made this very cool advertisement installation next to a highway in Sweden.

The installation is made out of 50 cars stacked together and painted to look like one of Flygbussarna’s busses. It is designed to advertise Flygbussarna’s bus services and to highlight the fact that it’s much more environmentally friendly to travel by bus than in a car.

“50 cars or 1 coach? If everyone travelled with public transport instead of by car the environment would be much better off. So don’t just take the coach because it’s cheaper – take it to reduce your carbon emissions.”

This installation is part of an advertising campaign with the slogan “it’s smart to be cheap” and will be featured on Flygbussarna’s “anti car” homepage.

Check out the slideshow:

Also check out this picture, taken by the Press-Office City of Münster (Germany), which demonstrates the amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle.

More Like This Story

Support This Author

Did you find this article interesting? If so, please consider supporting this author by clicking the Flattr button. All Flattr clicks from this button will go directly to Simon Leufstedt. Thank you for supporting our independent content creators!

  • http://www.greenproducts4me.info/ Joanne

    If everyone travel by bus instead of cars, it will indeed lower the level of carbon emission. The picture above is interesting since it has shown a bus formed by stacking up many cars together.

    http://www.greenproducts4me.info/

  • John

    Great pic and blog!

  • Donnie

    I think the President has a good idea by painting the roofs white, but lets go one step further and paint the parking lots and hyways white. Have you ever noticed how much heat they collect and put off heat. Instead of white stripes, could use yellow for marking center lines.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/SimonL SimonL

      Or maybe he should just reverse his pro-coal stance?

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Art3mis Art3mis

    It definitely sounds very interesting. But what about taxi drivers? There are hundreds of them in every city. They would protest about losing their jobs..
    I think it is a great idea, but why not introducing a model that needs a driver? That would be more fair..

  • http://www.roverpartsgateway.co.uk/rover45parts.php rover_45_parts

    What a nice trick, but I think it is not a 50 but a 25 cars.
    Anyway, your work is very amazing!

  • RianJepson

    I have no idea how to do that for every error.

Comment Guideline

Comments with profanity, personal attacks or objectionable material will be edited or deleted. Feel free to refute someone's points or offer counter arguments, but please do not engage in name calling.