[1622] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
[Mit-talk] Re: Mandatory T passes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dheera Venkatraman)
Fri Oct 21 16:29:23 2005
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:10:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dheera Venkatraman <dheera@mit.edu>
To: "TIM@MIT" <supertim@mit.edu>
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considering the do the same thing probably with the BSO and other things,
why aren't they just raising tuition by $10 and calling it "free T passes
for all MIT students"? just curious as to why they decided to separate
this one out.
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dheera venkatraman
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dheera@dheera.net
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, TIM@MIT wrote:
> So, assuming this goes all year, thats $120. Ride the Suway 46 times
> (assuming you make a round trip), or the bus 60 times, and it pays for
> itself. That's really not very much...less than once a week.
>
> It encourages public transportation.
> It pushes students to get off campus and into the city
> People who live off campus (esp. in Back Bay and Beyond...Frats) don't have
> to deal with a failing SafeRide to get to class
>
> I can see where a few people might get upset about having to pay an extra
> $10/month, but when you're already paying upwards of $43K...what's another
> hundred?
>
> -Tim
>
> Jessica H Lowell wrote:
>
>> According to the front page of the Tech, there's a preliminary proposal for
>> requiring all MIT students and staff to pay $10/month in exchange for
>> universal
>> T passes. This was the first I'd heard of this, though apparently grad
>> students
>> have been talking about it for a while. What are people's opinions on
>> this?
>>
>> - Jessie
>>
>
>
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