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Started by Alexander G. Carver [Data]
Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:00
Re: MARTA all year round!
Author: Alexander G. Carver [Data]
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:00
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(Seiji Inaoka) summoned the power of the electron to profess: |In article <alan.tidwell.34.843064762@conted.gatech.edu>, |Alan Tidwell <alan.tidwell@conted.gatech.edu> wrote: |> |>I believe the negative arguments are from people who do not wish to pay |>additional transportation or parking fees in order to help subsidize a |>discount for a service that is not available in their area or does not fit |>their lifestyle. This is a valid argument in my opinion. | |Look at other posts in this thread from ***very reliable*** source. None |of such ****very reliable**** source never mentioned additional mandatory |fees. This misunderstanding makes this thread very complicated, messed, |etc. Please spread the word whenever we see others saying such things!! That's because there was a thread about MARTA (related to the topic here) that suggested all students pay a mandatory fee for MARTA so that a volume discount could be had. The two threads are merging (although they were not very far apart to begin with). |I understand MARTA discount program is made possible without fees. I do |not know well about GSU pilot program, but in the case of the MARTA |Partnership program (for company employees), the amount of discount can be |well cancelled by the company's tax deduction, I think. MARTA's discount program is the same as any other company's program: buy enough units of whatever they're selling and they'll reduce the cost a little so that you pay less but they still make a profit. To do what people are suggesting, which would be a substantial discount in cost, money would have to be found to make up the difference between what is collected and what is paid to MARTA. This is where the hypothetical fee is entering. The Partnership program would work for employees but not students. We don't get paid by Tech to be here (I wish :( ) so they can't discount us.
Re: MARTA all year round!
Author: Jud Ready
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 00:00
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ac75@prism.gatech.edu (Alexander G. Carver [Data]) writes: >MARTA's discount program is the same as any other company's program: buy >enough units of whatever they're selling and they'll reduce the cost a little >so that you pay less but they still make a profit. MARTA does not turn a profit, in the sense of sales being greater than expenditures. They receive a rather substantial sum of money from Uncle Sam to provide public transportation. Even the revenue from the lovely ads on buses and trains does not generate significant cashflow. The $1.25 we pay barely pays for the electricity and gas to run the trains and buses. The *vast* majority of MARTA's funds are federal government subsidies. ________________________________________________________________________ | | | | Jud Ready | http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~wr35/ | | Georgia Institute of Technology | | | Materials Science & Engineering | gt2279c@prism.gatech.edu | |_________________________________|_____________________________________|
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