Best Promotion Ever

An email from PhillyCarShare:

PhillyCarShare is partnering with Jack Johnson to offer one of our members a sweet experience. We will be awarding two ONSTAGE tickets - THE ABSOLUTE BEST seats in the house - to one of our cherished members. The show is Thursday, August 7th at Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden.

Here’s how to be considered: Re-write the lyrics to your favorite Jack Johnson tune, incorporating your PhillyCarShare love. We will also accept YouTube submissions of you performing your original lyrics. Send to [CarShare] by July 28th to be considered. We’ll post your submissions in our next newsletter.

Re-writing Jack Johnson songs about PhillyCarShare. Really, there is no better way to choose concert ticket winners.

No Privately Owned Cars By 2030?

Hey, look: The executive director of PenTrans (Pennsylvanians for Transportation Solutions. Why only one ‘n’?) says we might not have privately owned cars by 2030.

How well do you think some of these “alternative” modes of travel are doing in Philadelphia?

You have PhillyCarShare where it’s working out so well that you have a private provider coming to Philly to compete with them. You have many market-based solutions to do these kinds of things and conserve energy. It may come a point where in 2030, people aren’t using privately owned cars.

Far out, man. I don’t know; I feel like most of my friends would have a car if (a) there was a place to park it and (b) they could afford one. And some people don’t even drive? Trust me: If they give me a license to drive, they can give anyone a license to drive. Don’t worry: Chances are, you won’t even hit anybody. I’m a bad driver, and even I only hit one person, and it was just with my side mirror.

Working on a new transit age? [Metro]

Leftovers: Here, Kitty, Kitty

• Someone dumped a bunch of purebred kittens in South Jersey, and now these wittle wittle guys are up for adoption! Yes, this was basically just an excuse to post a photo of a kitty, to shush the people who complain I’m only about puppies.

• Albert Yee posts about PhillyCarShare’s pimp our ride contest, where people can get to design a wrap that’ll be going around one of the cars for a month. A commenter on the post: “Did no-one in your office think that using the word ‘pimp’ to mean ‘prettify’ might be offensive to those campaigning for ‘pimp’ not to mean ‘bring a woman into the country illegally, make her sell sex to pay off debt bondage, hook her on drugs, make her see ten or twenty men a night, and brutalise her to keep her compliant’?” Uh, wait, wouldn’t using “pimp” to mean “prettify” be not having it mean that long definition she came up with? Right? [dragonballyee]

• Phils great Johnny Callison died today at the age of 67. The story also notes that Callison merchandise will be in hot demand any day now. Indeed. [KYW 1060]

• Hello! David Grasso is proposing a $315 million complex that includes a Whole Foods and a five-star hotel! (And another store, possibly a major electronics chain.) The Whole Foods is supposed to be “taking the experience of coming to a food store to a new level.” Boy, how can you wait? [Inky]

• The Rock Paper Scissors Keystone Classic is this Saturday, with a top prize of $850! Eight-hundred-and-fifty bucks, for playing Rock Paper Scissors! C’mon, you know you want to. [Northeast RPS Champs]