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Worth noting that university transit systems are very much not free. The fees are just included in your tuition. For Amherst specifically, this is covered by un
by CuriousCosmic 4y ago
Worth noting that university transit systems are very much not free. The fees are just included in your tuition. For Amherst specifically, this is covered by undergrad students' tuition and graduate students' service fees.
For context the grad student service fee is around 300-700USD per semester depending on how many credits you take.
So by no means is it free. I do agree with you though that universal access to transit makes it a lot more pleasant and speeds up boarding quite substantially.
https://www.umass.edu/bursar/fee-explanation https://www.umass.edu/bursar/fee-explanation
- acomjean 4y agoThe busses I took were the “pioneer valley transit authority”. Apparently they do charge some routes, but the ones operated by umass now are free to students. They’d actually train students to drive the buses. ( still do apparently) an interesting skill to leave university with. https://www.umass.edu/transportation/now-hiring https://www.umass.edu/transportation/now-hiring) Umass was interesting. The fees were how they kept money at the school as tuition went to the states general fund. Sports were always covered by those fees which was free basketball tickets (though it was a lottery when I left, but I worked at the paper and would take pictues..) It was a while ago that I was there (last century..) https://www.pvta.com/ https://www.pvta.com/