Promoting public transportation makes sense  by Bailey Richards
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| Print  The annual Dump the Pump day was on June 21 to promote
people taking public transportation rather than driving personal
vehicles and using excess gas. While some people surely
celebrated it symbolically, much the like Tom’s A Day Without
Shoes, which asks people to go one day without wearing shoes to
bring awareness to people not having shoes in third world
countries. They are both largely meaningless days. These
gestures of riding public transportation or not wearing shoes
are not only in some cases dangerous, but in others physically
impossible.  While it is never permissible anywhere that
children have to live without shoes, the odds of stepping on a
rusty nail, hypodermic needle, or broken glass in the middle of
the African plains is pretty slim. However, the odds are greatly
increased if you are walking around a city or even a college
campus. And unless you shipped tho