boo urns for socialist policies

Both are valid points, but what im saying is that people should be able to opt out. If not opting out and they really want the extra money from every student, then at least give a choice of 1) upass to buy 2) a parking pass for the semester.

I understand its subsidized like ICBC but that doesnt work with upass. People who choose to drive have to buy insurance, if you dont wanna drive you dont have to pay. But regardless of if you drive, walk, bike, carpool, or bus to school you have to pay for the upass which is kinda bullshit.

I rmb at langara before tehy had the upass, they had a vote on whether or not to have the OPTION of having the upass at the school. I think like 90% voted yes to the OPTION because to help other or for whatever reason. But after it was passed, they made it MANDATORY for everyone to buy one and turned the vote around saying that "90% of Langara Students voted fro teh Upass" before they introduced teh fineprint.

what school you go to

sweet! i may consider driving less now.

for all those people that complain about not being able to opt out

1 = suck it up

2 = sell it on craigslist

3 = repeat for each semester you attend until graduation

4 = profit

I did that for 3 years at SFU. I would get in my car and drive up and down the mountain passing the horrendously packed sardine cans. Cool in the summer, warm in the winter and never stuck when it snowed.

It was fantastic :D

kwantlen considered as a private school?

Wow, it's great for students who need it, but 5 years later and students that don't want it still can't opt out? Well I'm pretty biased as I was probably one of the only few who posted flyers around campus and voted no!

The university/college you attend is itself partially funded by taxpayers. Boo urns indeed.

I remember the debate we had when they initially brought the U-Pass program in. As far as I'm concerned, if you drive and are a student, you can afford to pay a little extra for U-Pass.

Comparing it to insurance isn't the best analogy.

Compare it to health care.

Everyone has to pay for it. Doesn't matter if you use it or not.

That's not an option. Either UPASS for everybody or UPASS for nobody.

You want to have your cake and eat it too. You can choose not to drive and not buy insurance. And you can choose not to go to school and not buy the UPASS.

I didn't like UPASS at first either. But I might as well milk it if I have to buy it.

I thought at UBC you were able to opt out? Even if not just do what Volvo said and make cash off it!

So you should buy something that's useless to you even though you can afford it?

Strong logic.

So does this mean that ONLY Langara , SFU , UBC , and Cap will have upass?

What about: Kwantlen, Douglas, BCIT?

health care and translink are not equal. most people are happy to pay for health care even if they don't use it. you would be happy if u dont have to use health care right? it's also free if you don't have income..

You can apply for upass subsidy at UBC and SFU. So if you're poor it's free.

Then let's not talk about health care. let's talk about those roads in front of your house. I don't use them, why should I have to pay for them?

lol u dont use roads?? so ur inside ur house all the time?

i wouldn't mind buying roads so you could pay me a toll each time u walk over it.

Sounds awesome! Was mostly using a concession monthly when the school year started last year. Paying $80/month is killer imo. I'd rather pay for gas (which I did). A lot more convenient than taking the bus, although I miss napping from BCIT to my house.
Can't go wrong with $30/month.

This is fucking ridiculous.

I'm taxpaying for some fucking HS kids to skytrain/bus to MORE places since they don't have to pay anymore?

Thanks BC goverment, I'll be bringing this shit up when they start crying "we're in debt! we're in debt!"

Don't get me wrong, everyone should have a safe ride, and ease of commute, but THAT'S WHY WE WORKED OUR ASSES OFF IN HS to buy cars/pay for insurance.

98% of the people who agree with this are in HS, or have already thought of some smartass loophole. At least the gangsta wannabe kids won't want their real name next to a picture and probably won't get one.

This would have been fucking fantastic last year when I was in VCC.

We still had a way to do semi-cheap transit.. We would buy a 'fastrax' sticker and attach it to our student ID, then we only were forced to buy a 1zone pass versus a 3zone since i was coming from Langley. But still, that was 80 fucking dollars a month, would have loved to save $50 over the 9 months i was there... $450 dollars... damn.

First off, i doubt much taxes are going to fund U-pass...they are subsidized in the sense that every student at that institution has to pay up.

2nd of all, Langara, SFU, Douglas, UBC does not equal high school.

You can say that about a lot of things that we pay for through our taxes, but we should look at the bigger picture. What's the objective of the program?

- Give post-secondary students a break (not everyone lives at home, has their tuition paid for by parents, etc.)
- Create an interest in public transit so when these students start their real lives, they may actually care about public transit and support initiatives to make it better
- It's somewhat "green" (I'm not going to get into that ball of glue)

My view is that if you can afford to finance, drive, and maintain a car while you're going to university, you are well-off. Owning a car, in my view, is considered a luxury.

This doesn't make sense. If you add more schools/students to this U-Pass program, the increase in the overall pool of money is not proportional to the increase in the number of actual transit users. Every new student added will pay, but not every new student will use the system. Therefore, the price per student should stay the same, or decrease. So UBC and SFU students got shafted.

Lol then what you'll see is a line of 145s moving at a pace of 20km/hr up the hill XD

It is a load of shit, i'm paying 150 for no fucking reason, since i drive. And the name U-PASS needs to be changed, should be now called the LOSER CRUISER pass, since all the retards even in knock off, no name universities get it -.-

What does being happy with it or not have anything to do with it?