Despite January fare increase, York students will get a break
Students skip out on transit fare hike
After a Nov. 17 Toronto Transit
Commission (TTC) meeting, students finally scored a deal that will see them paying the same price as high school students for monthly TTC passes.
It’s official. TTC riders will be paying more at the fare box in the new year, but a student push for discounts has cushioned some of the blow.
The general public is preparing to tighten their belts in anticipation of Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) 25-cent fare increase now set for Jan. 3, while university and college
students celebrate new discounts that are going to become available in September 2010.
Both part-time and full-time students enrolled in post-secondary institutions will now enjoy the benefits of purchasing TTC Metropasses at a student rate that had previously only been available to high schoolers.
York University students will be able to purchase VIP discounted Metropasses at the William Small Centre for $96 until January, when the new price of $106 comes into effect.
Starting in September 2010, students will only have to pay $99.
Students who wish to buy Metropasses based on the Metropass Discount Plan (MDP) and subscribe for 12 months will pay $89 a month in the new year.
David Herrera, a third-year international development studies major, said he thinks the TTC should have introduced this discount a long time ago.
“This fare increase is going to suck for regular people, but, thankfully, we get a little bit of the relief,” he said.
When the TTC first suggested the fare increase on Nov. 4, 2009, the York Federation of Students (YFS) organized the “Fair Student Fares” campaign and was able to gather almost
3,000 signatures on a petition against the fare increase.
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