100,000 Free Trips Help Earth

Megabus is offering 100,000 chances to receive a free trip. Bus travel helps reduce carbon emissions and they want to raise awareness.

Megabus.com is giving away 100,000 free trips! You can reserve your free trip until January 16, 2008 and book it for up to 45 days in advance.

• Megabus is a Chicago based company that offers service to 12 other Midwest cities. (Ann Arbor, Bloomington-Normal, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Toledo.) They also run in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Millbrae, Oakland, Sand Diego, San Francisco, San Jose and San Ysidro.

Filling one seat on a full coach is equivalent to taking 56 cars off the road. The end result would be 3,850 fewer pounds of carbon emissions for every 100 miles according to Megabus.

"Megabus.com wants to increase awareness about reducing carbon emissions by encouraging bus travel," said Dale Moser, megabus.com president and CEO. "If giving away free seats will increase environmental awareness, then we are willing to do our part for the environment."(Chicago, Dec.3, 2007)

• If you want a free seat, log on to www.megabus.com, select your destination and departure date. Don’t forget the promotion code which is WIN2008. Even if there are no spots left, you’ll receive a discount.

I wish they would run something like that around here. We do get a free ride on the city bus here if it’s a smog day.