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Perform our ballad and put it up on YouTube (or similar), send us the link, and be in to win.

Make up some new verses for our ballad, send them to us, and be in to win.

We've written a bit of a ballad (see below) and would like YOU to perform it for us. This is an on-line talent show! You can add verses, delete verses, or even create something completely different. Just perform something called 'Less Cars in New York' and put it up on YouTube (or similar) for all to see, and tell us the link on our performance entry form.

Alternatively we'd like you to write one or more additional verses for the ballad and just enter the verses (perhaps 'cos you can't sing?). You can enter your extra verses on our extra verse entry form.

You can enter a performance AND extra verses if you would like to.

Entries close at midnight New York time, on 30 September 2007.

Prizes: There will be one prize of $150 for the performance that gets the most votes (see voting below). There will be three prizes of $50, one for each of the three extra verses that gets the most votes (see voting below).

Voting: Voting will start as soon as entries close, and will be carried out on-line. Only people registered on the site will be able to vote. As soon as entries have closed we will email all registered people with a link to the voting page. Voting will end at midnight on 10 October 2007. Each registered person will be allowed to vote once for the performance, and once for the extra verses, and it is allowed to change your vote should you wish to up till the time when voting closes.

Payment of prizes: Winners will be confirmed by email on 11 October 2007. Payment of prize money will be arranged with the winners.

The ballad:

Less Cars in New York

The Mayor has a plan
Is it a scam?
He says there'll be less cars in New York

He's written it large
Said there'll be a charge
So that there'll be less cars in New York

Charge for congestion
My what a great suggestion
To bring about less cars in New York

Eight dollars a day
Less the bridge tolls we'd pay
Will that make less cars in New York?

Six point five percent
If the drivers will relent
Is that enough less cars in New York?

If the Feds will just agree
Two hundred million we need you see
To deliver less cars in New York

We'll pay for a Commission
And give it a mission, find
How to get more less cars in New York

A friendly panel will propose
What do YOU suppose?
A toll for less cars in New York

We need much haste
The Fed dollars not to waste
And get tolls from less cars in New York

Oh think how we'll spend
All the revenue without end
From the tolls for less cars in New York

Buses and trains are cool
And parking to help carpool
Well spent for less cars in New York

'Cos there's a self-help solution
That would also drop pollution
And result in less cars in New York

If we'd just bus or train
Or rideshare, its quite plain
Without tolls there be less cars in New York

A flexible carpool
Could be one such tool
That would give us less cars in New York.

These are things we'll do anyway
To avoid having to pay
The toll for less cars in New York

But with tolls its more fair
Non-changers the payer,
Of the cost of less cars in New York

Won't you now share a ride
And together turn the tide
And give the Mayor less cars in New York?

(Sign up on this site
Tell us your route, right?
And we'll help make less cars in New York.

Help us find out if Flexible Carpooling is right for New York!)