{"id":6091,"date":"2010-06-18T08:13:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T13:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2010-06-18T08:13:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T13:13:56","slug":"shouldnt_the_school_board_or_the_city_pay_for_this_anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/06\/shouldnt_the_school_board_or_the_city_pay_for_this_anyway.html","title":{"rendered":"Shouldn&#8217;t The School Board Or The City Pay For This Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Setting aside for a moment that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/16\/nyregion\/16mta.html\">the MTA is probably using this issue as a political wedge<\/a>, and that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/06\/17\/2010-06-17_nyc_students_will_get_to_keep_free_metrocards_after_mta_gov_paterson_legislature.html\">it apparently succeeded<\/a>, why <em>should<\/em> the MTA pay for New York City students to ride subways and buses for free?  Shouldn&#8217;t the school system (since they save money on transportation) or the City itself (since so much of school funding comes from the City) be paying for the students?<\/p>\n<p>Even though it has a similar system, <a href=\"http:\/\/trimet.org\/fares\/youthstudent.htm\">Portland, OR doesn&#8217;t pay for students<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>High school students in the Portland Public School District can ride TriMet for free during the school year, by showing their student ID.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other school districts, Portland Public Schools does not provide regular yellow school bus service. The Student Pass program is a partnership between the school district and the City of Portland, and is funded through a State of Oregon Business Energy Tax Credit and Portland Public Schools. It is not subsidized by TriMet.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think SEPTA (Philadelphia) pays for students, and it doesn&#8217;t seem like LA or Chicago does, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting aside for a moment that the MTA is probably using this issue as a political wedge, and that it apparently succeeded, why should the MTA pay for New York City students to ride subways and buses for free? Shouldn&#8217;t the school system (since they save money on transportation) or the City itself (since so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-i_dont_get_it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}