[1645] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
[Mit-talk] Re: Mandatory T passes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Khripin)
Fri Oct 21 16:45:51 2005
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:32:04 -0400
From: Alex Khripin <akhripin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Steven M Kelch <kelch@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1129914698.3053.3.camel@m12-182-1.mit.edu>
cc: mit-talk@mit.edu
cc: liz smith <lizsmith@mit.edu>
cc: ec-discuss@mit.edu
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I'd have killed for a 10 dollar a month T pass... and no matter what
Rand says, there's nothing wrong with shafting a large number of people
for the common good.
I bet that pretty good chunk of shut-ins might actually go to locations
outside of Cambridge if they had T passes.
Certainly, I don't see why this is not rolled into tuition, for
financial aid purposes; an opt out waiver of some sort might also work
(but it increases the effort (thus expense) MIT has to put in, which
they might not want.
Seriously, if you have a problem with having a 10 dollar T pass, sell it
on Craiglist. You'll be able to afford several weeks of ramen as a
result of your profits.
The difference between this and student life fees, mandatory insurance,
mandatory dining, etc, is that you get a physical object in return,
which can be traded for money or other goods and services.
Really, if you are in as bad financial shape as you indicate, you should
have thought of the profit potential in this plan upon hearing of it.
You stand to earn about 10-15 dollars per month if this program gets
implemented.
Steven M Kelch wrote:
> So the trade off is that its super cheap, but everyone has to pay?
> Id rather have a more expensive pass that was optional. The guys in
> Boston that don't take the T very often since they live close to where
> they want to go won't need it, and that's a pretty good chunk of
> undergrads.
>
> On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 13:06 -0400, liz smith wrote:
>
>>Ten dollars is amazingly cheap per month... the current subsized subway
>>pass is
>>$22 a month.
>>
>>liz
>>
>>Quoting Allie Jacobs <fishie@MIT.EDU>:
>>
>>
>>>Would that cover the bus or just subway?
>>>I think it's a decent idea, although $10/month might be a little
>>>much, and it should not be mandatory. MIT should offer a discounted T
>>>pass to people that want it, like grad students that don't live on
>>>campus.
>>>
>>>Allie
>>>
>>>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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