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Originally Posted by livedowntown
It is much cheaper than paying a car payment ($200-700+), insurance ($75-150+), maintenance ($30-100+)and gas ($80-250+).
$75 to get everywhere the system goes is considerably cheaper. (Not more convenient or faster - although it can be - just less expensive over all)
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$75 will not get you anywhere in the system, a monthly premium pass (needed to ride FrontRunner) costs $180 /month.
But, I would guess that less than 30% of the people I see on FrontRunner daily actually pay full price for their passes. Most have ed passes or eco passes that are either subsidized or free.
I've heard that UTA is changing the way ed passes are paid for and distributed starting this semester, but until I graduated last spring, I got a premium pass (normally $180/month) absolutely free as a Weber State student.
If annual passes continue to be free for all students who are enrolled at least one semester a year, it would actually cost me less to register as a student in some useless online class and continue paying tuition than it would to pay UTA the $2,160 that it would cost for a premium pass over the course of a year.
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