Al Creed
2nd February 2004, 18:10
Where I live, it costs $2.10 to use the City bus. Bus Passes are $40 a MONTH, and transfers only last 2 Hours.
Now, I NEED the city bus, to get to school (As I am, for the moment anyway, Anti-Car), and this $2.10 a ride, KILLS me, a guy who is not "Gainfuly Empolyed" (Read: Wage Slave).
This equals $4.20 a day (Both ways), which equals $20 a week, which equals $630 a month I, and countless others, must pay.
There are two Post Secondary Education institudtions in my town, A University and a Community College. The University Students, are given a YEAR-ROUND bus pass, when most of those who use the bus live a 10 minute walk from the school, while those at the Community College (my school), have none, when ALOT of those who use the bus, come from a LONG way, to get there.
I see this as, well, WRONG.
So, I have decided to petition the College, both the President of the School and the Student Association, to strike a deal with the Bus company, to give us at the Community College who use the bus a break, and offer Student Bus Passes, as part of payment for attending the school.
If rich kids(who go to the University...I'm not making a generalization, I know how much it costs to get into there, and you have to be pretty financially secure) can get a break, so should we, who go to the community college.
I am also going to submit a column in my school's paper, urging students who:
a) NEED the Bus Pass
and/or
b) Would LIKE a bus pass
To write to the Student's association and the President of the college, to correct this grievous error. Most of the students there, paid to be there with their OWN money, ans hould get SOME kind of break.
I cannot let this issue sit, anymore. Sopmething MUST, MUST be done.
Now, I NEED the city bus, to get to school (As I am, for the moment anyway, Anti-Car), and this $2.10 a ride, KILLS me, a guy who is not "Gainfuly Empolyed" (Read: Wage Slave).
This equals $4.20 a day (Both ways), which equals $20 a week, which equals $630 a month I, and countless others, must pay.
There are two Post Secondary Education institudtions in my town, A University and a Community College. The University Students, are given a YEAR-ROUND bus pass, when most of those who use the bus live a 10 minute walk from the school, while those at the Community College (my school), have none, when ALOT of those who use the bus, come from a LONG way, to get there.
I see this as, well, WRONG.
So, I have decided to petition the College, both the President of the School and the Student Association, to strike a deal with the Bus company, to give us at the Community College who use the bus a break, and offer Student Bus Passes, as part of payment for attending the school.
If rich kids(who go to the University...I'm not making a generalization, I know how much it costs to get into there, and you have to be pretty financially secure) can get a break, so should we, who go to the community college.
I am also going to submit a column in my school's paper, urging students who:
a) NEED the Bus Pass
and/or
b) Would LIKE a bus pass
To write to the Student's association and the President of the college, to correct this grievous error. Most of the students there, paid to be there with their OWN money, ans hould get SOME kind of break.
I cannot let this issue sit, anymore. Sopmething MUST, MUST be done.