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gt6874b@acmey.gatech.edu (Dharm Guruswamy) summoned the power of the electron to profess:
|Tina Masciangioli (gt0724a@prism.gatech.edu) wrote:
|: I have really enjoyed walking and taking public 
|: transportation during the past month and I would love for it to 
|: continue.  Ironically, it's much cheaper for me to pay for 
|: parking during the year and just drive to school.  I'm wondering 
|: whether Tech can get discounted (or even free) MARTA passes for 
|: students to use throughout the year like the nifty ones we got to 
|: use during the olympics.
|
|I think that ALL full-time students should pay a mandatory fee for MARTA
|and then be issue stickers to attach to our IDs (prevents people from
|selling passes they get for free).  

Hold on one second.  _You_ may feel like paying more fees but I sure
don't.  I don't use marta enough to justify a quarterly/yearly/periodic
fee.  In the past two years (and I am at Tech year-round) I have ridden
marta a total of seven times (almost once per quarter).  A fee of any
amount is guaranteed to be higher than the $2.50/quarter that I paid these
past two years (I just buy a token when I need it).  I don't have a car,
but some of my friends do and I'm sure they won't like paying a mandatory
fee either when they have a working vehicle that is "free".

I can understand fees for the Stingers since they are used on campus and
anyone can jump on one when they feel like it but not for marta.