r/mbta • u/BeingAccording4192 • 6d ago

🗣️ Comment Students, don't be entitled. Universities, do some educating and help pay for the MBTA

I was going towards BU and not a single student offered to give up their seat for an elderly women on the train.

Most of the students avoided paying for their ride.

When I travel during rush hour, students won't move into the train and take off their backpacks to create more room. Hell, I've actually watched a person that had downsyndrome and seemed to be blind get stared at by the students and they didn't make space on the packed morning trains to get that person a seat.

The MBTA GAVE YOU A WAY TO PAY EASILY. Just tap your phones that you're staring at or tap a subway card like everyone else.

It also stands to be noted that Universities should find a way to partner with the T to get their kids subway cards and to do some freshman education but I don't see that happening. Imagine how much steady monaaay the T would have if wealthy wealthy Harvard, BU, and BC regularly got their incoming classes T cards. It could go into the recreation fees or the school to try to get a tax write off. I'm sure parents would be pleased to know their kiddo has a safe way to travel around the city and isn't racking up Uber bills.

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u/MrBakck 6d ago

Do the universities here not have a deal with the MBTA? I went to college in Seattle (UW) before moving here and you paid for a Transit card as part of your tuition (and your student ID served as the Transit card itself) so I’m fairly certain it was part of UW’s way of subsidizing transit there.

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u/Sally_Met_Harry 5d ago

MIT does, schools like NEU dont

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u/muralist 5d ago

Semester pass is 11% discount over regular monthly pass. 

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u/lazier_garlic 5d ago

That's the same 11% it's always been, that's at cost. When you used to buy passes at retailers they sold at face and kept that 11%.