Ever since I turned 20, the Toronto Transit Commission has made the assumption that I’m both rich and no longer a student, so I can now fork over an extra $1.25 per ride if I’m paying cash, or $0.95 if I’m using PRESTO. Both assumptions are wrong.
I was better off monetary wise when I was a little baby and had never done anything in my life but suck on my thumb and cry for food. And now, the TTC is trying to squeeze every penny out of my empty bank account because for some reason now that I’m 20 years old and very much still a student, the TTC no longer regards me as one.
The majority of my diet consists of cheese and bread, I spend a lot of my time in a classroom listening to a professor, and I have a card from Ryerson University that states I am a student.
I am very much a student even if the TTC thinks that at 20 being a student stops.
I still go to school, the same as I did when I was 19, and now on top of being a year closer to dying and a year closer to that first wrinkle, I have to pay extra per trip.
It just doesn’t make sense. I realize the TTC can’t give a discount to everyone and that they have to cut it at some point, but it would make way more sense to cut it when the average person finishes university, rather than halfway through it. In fact, all students, regardless of their age, should ride at a student price.
There’s a post secondary student monthly pass which is great if you’re traveling everyday, but I travel occasionally, not enough to justify the price of a monthly pass but enough to notice the difference between paying cash $2.00 per ride as a student and $3.25 for an adult. If I’m using PRESTO, it’s $2.90 for an adult and $1.95 for a student. So, no matter what payment method you use, if you’re a university student who’s 20 and travels occasionally you still have to pay more than a university student who’s 19.
It might not sound like a big deal, but I could buy a grilled onion cheddar burger from McDonald’s for the extra money it’s costing me one way. Or a cheeseburger.
So basically, all those lucky 19-year-old university students can buy a nice skinny but delicious burger from McDonald’s AND ride the TTC, while I can just ride the TTC and starve, and think about how much of my student loan I could have paid off/how many McDonald’s hamburgers I could have bought by now if the TTC had only been fair and had an equal fare for all students.
Getting older sucks.
For those students who commute every day and can just buy the discounted monthly pass, maybe they didn’t even notice the injustice of it all.
According to the TTC I guess if you commute everyday you’re still considered a student until you graduate university, but if you commute occasionally at 20 you’re just an adult/student with no perks of being a student.
I assume the person who created these fares was rich and did not have to worry about trivial things like charging a poor student extra money per ride just because they had the bad luck to turn a year older.
What would make the most sense would be to have a consistent fare for ALL students- even those who travel occasionally, until they graduate university and are no longer one.
I was better off monetary wise when I was a little baby and had never done anything in my life but suck on my thumb and cry for food. And now, the TTC is trying to squeeze every penny out of my empty bank account because for some reason now that I’m 20 years old and very much still a student, the TTC no longer regards me as one.
The majority of my diet consists of cheese and bread, I spend a lot of my time in a classroom listening to a professor, and I have a card from Ryerson University that states I am a student.
I am very much a student even if the TTC thinks that at 20 being a student stops.
I still go to school, the same as I did when I was 19, and now on top of being a year closer to dying and a year closer to that first wrinkle, I have to pay extra per trip.
It just doesn’t make sense. I realize the TTC can’t give a discount to everyone and that they have to cut it at some point, but it would make way more sense to cut it when the average person finishes university, rather than halfway through it. In fact, all students, regardless of their age, should ride at a student price.
There’s a post secondary student monthly pass which is great if you’re traveling everyday, but I travel occasionally, not enough to justify the price of a monthly pass but enough to notice the difference between paying cash $2.00 per ride as a student and $3.25 for an adult. If I’m using PRESTO, it’s $2.90 for an adult and $1.95 for a student. So, no matter what payment method you use, if you’re a university student who’s 20 and travels occasionally you still have to pay more than a university student who’s 19.
It might not sound like a big deal, but I could buy a grilled onion cheddar burger from McDonald’s for the extra money it’s costing me one way. Or a cheeseburger.
So basically, all those lucky 19-year-old university students can buy a nice skinny but delicious burger from McDonald’s AND ride the TTC, while I can just ride the TTC and starve, and think about how much of my student loan I could have paid off/how many McDonald’s hamburgers I could have bought by now if the TTC had only been fair and had an equal fare for all students.
Getting older sucks.
For those students who commute every day and can just buy the discounted monthly pass, maybe they didn’t even notice the injustice of it all.
According to the TTC I guess if you commute everyday you’re still considered a student until you graduate university, but if you commute occasionally at 20 you’re just an adult/student with no perks of being a student.
I assume the person who created these fares was rich and did not have to worry about trivial things like charging a poor student extra money per ride just because they had the bad luck to turn a year older.
What would make the most sense would be to have a consistent fare for ALL students- even those who travel occasionally, until they graduate university and are no longer one.