They think they can -- is it a good idea? No. The fact of the matter is that the people who live in New York City are not rich, and a large percentage of those students go to public school. Many kids go to private school on scholarship -- most of my classmates are on scholarship -- and live far away from school. Many students I know live in the Bronx, Brooklyn, souther and northern Manhattan, and Queens. They need to travel long distances to get to and from school. Sometimes they need to take a bus, and then a train, and vise versa, to get to and from school. If a student has to pay $4.50 a day, sometimes more, in the case of the people who have to take a bus and a train, to get to and from school daily. Accumulated, approximately, over the school year, that s over eight-hundred dollars. And multiply that by the number of kids the family has -- the fact is that most families cannot afford that kind of money to send their kids to and from school is student MetroCards are going to be discontinued. Really, the idea is very half-baked, and not very well thought-through. I believe the executives should reduce their pay, as they are leading very good lives, and they serious need to at least SHOW that they re willing to sacrifice in order to fix the hole in the Metropolitan Transit Authroity s budget -- they re currently not doing that. It seems to me, because of this, that the executives don t care. It seems that they re just picking on students. Yes, cutting the salary of executives won t fix the hole in the budget, but it will at least show that the executives are willing to sacrifice; right now, it seems that they don t care at all, and are just looking for a quick way to fix the budget crisis. However, in the long run, the effects of taking away student MetroCards can be VERY costly. Twenty-first century students are the future, as many people, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, have engrained in today s adolescents. If they cannot get to school, and they cannot get a proper education, we will be in even MORE trouble than we are now. The MTA really needs to think this whole situation through more thoroughly. Senior citizens have half fare -- they have more money, generally, than New York City families. The MTA should focus on this, first, before completely abolishing student MetroCards. However, all throughout the city, students are protesting this. Join the protests, and fight for students rights to ride the subway for free. Us New York City teenagers need to get as many people to support us as we can -- we deserve the right to free rides.All the best ?
Not unless the MTA or Albany can find few million dollars to save the program. Yes, it would happen. I say shame on the MTA for cutting student MetroCard, while their employees ride the buses, subways and commuter trains for free across the MTA Network.In addition, Albany should be ashamed for screwing the MTA by miscalculating their finances, which lead to this mess.My advice, you got till September of next year (2010) to fight for your rights to ride the buses and subways for free. If this requires walking out of class and/or calling a sick day. You guys deserves the right to ride for free, not the big shots and employees of the nation s largest public transit system.Channel 11, has set up a petition for students and parents to sign. Below is the link to the petition. You can pass this link along to your friend and their parents.Good luck and remember to fight for your rights to ride for free.Native New Yorker
the primary purpose of this is to threaten the state into giving them the money the state took away. It s, first and foremost, a ploy.
the MTA will somehow find the money to keep giving the students a pass.
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