Restore Student MetroCards
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Jay Walder
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
347 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Dear Mr. Walder:
Hard working parents and students should not be punished for the MTAs poor planning and mismanagement of its budget. The proposal to cut the free and reduced fare Student MetroCard program as a means of balancing the MTA budget is unacceptable and should be taken off the table immediately.
The free-fare student program accounts for less than 2\% of the total MTA budget, and the State has not pulled its weight to fund this program as promised. However, eliminating such an important program to close a relatively small gap would be extremely shortsighted and detrimental to New York Citys future. While other jurisdictions rely on a yellow school bus to get their children to school, in New York City the yellow MetroCard is our school bus, which 400,000 students rely on every day to travel to school and participate in after-school activities. Cutting the Student MetroCard program is not the answer to the MTAs budget shortfall, and we will not stand for its proposed elimination.
The MTA must act responsibly and consider a wide range of budget solutions before placing this financial burden on parents and students. We urge you to withdraw the MTA proposal to cut the free and reduced fare Student MetroCard program.
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
347 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Dear Mr. Walder:
Hard working parents and students should not be punished for the MTAs poor planning and mismanagement of its budget. The proposal to cut the free and reduced fare Student MetroCard program as a means of balancing the MTA budget is unacceptable and should be taken off the table immediately.
The free-fare student program accounts for less than 2\% of the total MTA budget, and the State has not pulled its weight to fund this program as promised. However, eliminating such an important program to close a relatively small gap would be extremely shortsighted and detrimental to New York Citys future. While other jurisdictions rely on a yellow school bus to get their children to school, in New York City the yellow MetroCard is our school bus, which 400,000 students rely on every day to travel to school and participate in after-school activities. Cutting the Student MetroCard program is not the answer to the MTAs budget shortfall, and we will not stand for its proposed elimination.
The MTA must act responsibly and consider a wide range of budget solutions before placing this financial burden on parents and students. We urge you to withdraw the MTA proposal to cut the free and reduced fare Student MetroCard program.
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Pooja
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- A students ability to have a pass to the education they deserve in the city is what makes NYC so unique. Take it away, and students will attend the most nearby school and our education system won't be the same.
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Reuben Y
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Michelle H
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- How are children supposed to get to school?
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LaLa
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- Is the city going to give me and my brother money to take the bus too and from school because the way the economy is going right now, I do not think that my mother can afford it right now.
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Christine C
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- I NEED the student Metrocard! Cut some other budget!
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maria D
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- im not coming to school if they take away our metrocards!
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Douglas M
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- I do not want to lose my metrocard when it expires!
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William L
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- Without the student metrocards, I cannot get to school at all. Plus, applying to college already takes so much of our money away from our pockets. How is it possible that we can afford metrocards anymore!? Please don't take away our student metrocards! The entire New York City residents are depending on you to save money for their children's education!
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Diana P
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David Z
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- Don't take student metro cards away
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Bianca L
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- thank god i graduated befor this happened....
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Janet C
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Alicia P
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Jacqueline W
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- Students already have enough to worry about when they're at school, why do they have to worry about just being able to get to school?
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Anna F
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- this is seriously the lowest point you can go. Taking something that a child needs.
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Michael P
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Ally L
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Sophia I
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Jisun l
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- I won't be paying $4.50 everyday, just to ride on MTA's nasty, unreliable trains.
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angel
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Nikki K
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Ivan S
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- without student metro's id be wasting over $1000 to get to school per year!
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Ronald W
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Ivy
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- Bad !
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Stephanie D
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Garcelle C
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- I live in Brooklyn and I go to school i Manhattan. Taking away metro cards for student would cost me about $10.00 a day to go to and from school each day. Please think about how greatly that would affect all NYC students and their families and dont take our studen metro cards away.
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RUBYDONG
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- students deserve metro cards, without them we're not walking that long a distance to school. the economy is low, you cant expect us to pay that much , it adds up to a great amount.
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Nabanita H
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- Students rely heavily on their metrocards to get them to and from school. Many students in NYC come from familes with more than one child, with each child going to school. If free or reduced-fare metrocards are cut, parents will have to pay around $900 to get each child to and from school each year. Many families cannot afford to pay that much for their children to attend school. Public schools are supposed to be free, so why are you making us pay to attend them?
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James G
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- P.S. It's really a Green/Orange School Bus since the Student Metrocards are those colors.
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Christine
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Andy
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Lucas J
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Brando
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MaryAnn M
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Kevin W
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Fatime U
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- Taking away the student metro cards will be a dramatic decrease in the efforts that were made these past few years to decrease school drop out rates. The NYC high school selection process and system is quite different from that of any other state in the U.S. Kids have truley and sincerely put in a tremendous amount of effort to get into the schools that they wanted to go to, even if it meant loosing sleep over transportation purposes. Making a student pay for transport to and from school will just add onto their already increasing worries. Add this fact onto the job slashes that have taken place in the recent economic 'recession' and you get a hefty amount of families that won't be able to send their kids to school if it means paying almost $1000 a year. With families that have even more children, they will be spending more money that could be put to better use! To tie things up, lowering the fare to 1/2price will not allow the use of subway transport. How do you plan to make up for the future of this city?
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Stan B
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- Our public schools are based on students traveling to schools on public transportation. There are no neighborhood public high schools in Manhattan. Families have made decisions on where their children go to school based on the system of free transportation to these schools. The disruption to families lives would be more than the MTA and the mayor's office could take, politically. Use your heads and drop this stupid idea!
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marilyn j
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- STOP IT!!!!!
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Edward M
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Nakeema R
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- Please think of our children...
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Laura Di D
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Theresa M
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Reishon C
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Therese I
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- Can you imagine having to pay transporation for 3 or 4 children. This will cripple the poor working family.
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Jillian D
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