As with most, even middle-sized cities, mine gets into near grid-lock about once a week.

How about this to give bus systems a cheap kick in the bus ... use the serial number on your machine-delivered ticket as a lottery number.

The devil's in the details of course, a lot of small ones and few biggies such as getting official approval for yet another lottery in my gambling-obsessed country. Is there one that isn't the same these days?

And getting anywhere on time now is a daily gamble, so why not sit back and watch the screen for your lucky number to flick up.

That's one way at least of operating TransLotto.

Over to you, Halfbakers!
-- rayfo, Sep 27 2000

(?) Same idea at www.idea-a-day.com http://www.idea-a-d...playDate=06/03/2001
Half a year later. [jutta, Sep 27 2000]

I like this idea. In Taiwan, there is a lotto made up of sales receipts. This keeps shops from selling stuff under the counter.

You could also put in some sort of treasure hunt element. So *Vital Clues* would show up on the inside reader boards of certain bus lines each month.
-- tenhand, Sep 27 2000


Sometimes, just catching the bus is enough of a crap shoot.
-- centauri, Sep 27 2000



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