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Passes"
*   By John Sullivan, The New York Times, 8/26/1996
*   
*   About 500,000 students will now have their bus and subway usage tracked by
*   Metrocards, in an effort to save money. Unlike current passes, which
*   students can use anytime between 6 A.M. and 7 P.M. on weekdays, the
*   Metrocard pass can be programmed to restrict the students to a set number
*   of trips a day.
*   
*   Ms. Gonzalez-Light, a spokeswoman for the Board of Education, said they
*   would work with the Transit Authority to individualize the number of
*   trips per student to adjust for extra-curricular activities.

Then you could track each individual student? Decide if they might be truant
including if they didn't use it, or went the wrong way?

*   "Last Clink for Token-Only Turnstiles"
*   By Garry Pierre-Pierre, The New York Times, May 14 1997
*   
*   The last token-only turnstile was ripped out today.
*   
*   Officials have spent $700 million over a four-year period to automate the
*   system, including upgrading the electrical wiring and the computer systems
*   to link up the vast netwo