'Downtown the Easy Way' contest

The winners have been chosen!

TriMet has chosen 18 winning entries from more than 1,200 in the Downtown the Easy Way contest.

Easy Way contest Winners

Contest background

The Downtown the Easy Way campaign was launched on November 15, 2007. Ten designs were created to be displayed on 45 new TriMet buses each month through June 2009. The contest kicked off on July 19, 2008 during the 5th & 6th Avenue Street Fair and closed August 15.

The ad

Each ad is designed to reflect passenger thoughts that illustrate the convenience of using the bus to get downtown. The sides of buses were chosen as the ad type so that the "thoughts" would line up under passenger windows.

Winning entries

"Time to people watch." Luann Bourgo, Portland	"Wahoo! I'm saving gas!" Deborah Cha, Tigard
"Please let it be Friday!" Douglas Froman, Portland	"TriMet is my chauffer." Janet Baldwin, Gresham
"Mmm...food carts, next stop." Justine Hanlon, Portland	"I love my bus driver!" Susan Drake, Portland
"I need coffee." Christine Hicks, Hillsboro	"I don't need a car!" Karen Gilkison, Portland
"Listening to my podcasts." David Schweizer, Portland	"Never seen that before!" Criss Hargis, Clackamas
"Memorizing Shakespeare's sonnets." Celestial Ward, Portland	"Pondering Einstein's E=mc2." Celestial Ward, Portland

Not pictured:

"Next stop, happily ever after." John Bunnell, Portland
"I love this town." Kurtis Gibson, Portland
"Experiencing a zen moment." Mary Goodwater, Portland
"Where'd she get those shoes?" Krista Heim, Portland
"Becoming a Sudoku Master." Christopher Vazquez, Portland
"This is how I roll." Jennie Smith, Beaverton

The prize

Contest winners will receive a TriMet Monthly Pass for November. Congratulations!