UBC Students: Please vote to keep the U-Pass
 

I know we already have a campus section and a little ironic since this is a car forum, but this will get most traffic.

Go to your SSC => WebVote and vote YES to keep our U-Pass.

We're currently paying $23.5/mo.

If you vote YES it will jump up to $30/mo and they will reissue one every month versus each semester. Apparently there wont be picture on the U-Pass but you have to keep a valid student ID.

If the AMS referendum doesn't pass there won't be U-Pass for UBC students. So unless everyone wants to drive to campus and pay ridiculous parking fees don't forget to vote by this friday, March 11th.

Just because the colleges and other "universities" wants in on the program...they should subsidize their own fees and not jeoprodize the schools that started the U-Pass:devil:

what type of bullshit elitism is that? Go fuck yourself. How about that one?

Fuck the u-pass. Mandatory costs for everyone who doesnt even use it? Instead of asking everyone to help subsidize the upass, why dont you help subsidize everyone for their parking pass?

I graduate in May so doesnt affect me but no elitism please...
and as ^ said, yea subsidize my parking

I pay $180 each semester for the option of 3.5 hours worth of busing per day.... I'd rather keep the 180 and not have this silly option.

Parking would be even more expensive without the u-pass you fucking idiot.

I SEE MYSELF WAITING FOR THE BUS LAWLLLLLL 0:47 walking towards the 480 stop lololololol I remember that day when they had the sign behind the parked bus asking the drivers to do some vote and another bus pulled up and started screaming at the other driver

But yeah I'm not voting. Translink needs to really stop grabbing more money. They need to find ways to MAKE money, not take it

My Point: When our transit corporation has the power to impose taxes, you know it's fucked up


No, it would be cheaper because Translink will collect more parking tax

where do i go to vote no on this mandatory upass bullshit.

I hate how its mandatory for everyone. Majority of students take transit and there should be enough people who pay to use the service so they don't have to charge everyone. I'm fine with having a upass but the ideal solution for us is to make it optional. Then no one would complain.

I voted no and am not ashamed of it too.

1.5 hours by bus from my house or 30 minutes by car. (that's assuming that the 480 or 49 isn't full - which it always is during rush hours)
8 'o' clock class.

Tough decision

Reason #3958640 why the U-Pass shouldn't exist.

I remember while I was still in UBC, during an intramural game I was trash talking a dude,

He said "I'll see you in the parking lot"
Me "Parking lot? You take the fucking bus, you should be thanking me for paying your fat ass to school"

He then stfu'd, LOL.

I'm obviously not proud of this today, but really, at the time you get really angry when people that never take the bus (for whatever reason legit or not), have to pay on top several hundred dollars just so other can do so. But hey, it's Canada baby, just have to take some of the shit with many of the good I suppose.l

Retarded or something. This is a car forum. Majority of us here owns car, most of us would rather drive if they could, than bus:fuckyea:. U-pass is a piece of shit, making me pay mandatory additional costs to my tuition.

I have something really crazy to add to this UPass hoopla.
YEARS ago when I went to UBC, I worked part time as a parking attendant.
Wanna know the real reason the U-Pass was brought in?
-UBC and SFU built lots of luxury condo towers, which brought them revenue through development fees etc.
-GVRD says that you can build them, but net vehicular traffic must not change.
-UPass encourages more students to bus in, therefore allowing for roughly zero change or even less vehicles travelling to campus.
-GVRD approves building permits, UBC/SFU get cash from luxury developments.

I feel sorry for those that have to pay for it when they don't even use it.
I'm just glad I actually need it, otherwise I would be raging too.

I am by no means an english scholar, but how is this elitism? U-pass was approved by a majority vote in the past not by a few key people who schemed in back rooms. I would think this is more like socialized transport.


Yeah fuck that. And while they are putting things in referendum, get rid of libraries because not everyone uses them. Fuck the firemen because clearly they are only for the select few and I'll be damned if I pay for healthcare for someone else's 70 year old grandparent, get them to pay for what they use.

While I understand your premise, examples are abundant for where that train of thought doesn't make sense. The fact is BC is a "green" province and universities are the intellectual landscape for the province and it is exactly where these things should be done to promote its image.

Nevertheless, I think it would be a great solution for those who have a parking pass on campus to "opt" out of the Upass program.

I think that was what he was referring to as elitism...

Over the 4 years at UBC, I have used the U-pass for less than 20times -_-...

I want my money back

Completely retarded how Upass is mandatory.

I'ma one up you and say that I used it ONCE, from the Sub to the Village during the first week of school as I was textbook hunting.

30/month is like 100 bucks a term. just think of it as a rec fee or something
seriously, most of our tuition is subsidized by the government. other taxpayers who don't go to school and yet subsidize your education have far more of a right to bitch.

most of you wouldn't even be able to afford tuition if it was in the states without a scholarship. just be thankful.

too much bitching and whining in this thread /slitwrists

^ Being a former UBC student and U-pass holder, this thing is only useful if you have easy access to a bus line. I admit it got me out of my car and into a bus when it came into effect, but that was because the bus station was a 5 minute walk away and I didn't need to switch lines.

For those who live superfar (for example going to SFU main campus but living in Richmond), this thing makes no sense from a financial or time standpoint.

And to the OP, you definitely have the best of intentions, but something tells me that posting on a CAR forum isn't the most efficient way of gaining support for that cause. ;)

While we're on this topic, anyone else up for tearing out those bike lanes downtown? :mad:

It should be optional. Making it mandatory is retarded. It has NOTHING to do with how much tuition we pay. The government subsidizes the tuition, NOT Translink and UBC.

It's pathetic the fags at AMS keep yelling U-Pass this U-Pass that. They're helping UBC making more money, like UBC haven't made enough money selling condos on endowment lands to rich Hongers already.

Do I want to wake up at 6, walk to the bus station in the rain and cold, wait for the third bus because the first two bus drivers just thought the bus was too full? And then wait another 40 minutes on the bus. Fuck that shit. AMS can take their U-Pass and shove it up their asses.

That being said. I think it'll pass, unfortunately.

^ yes that might make sense from an individual point of view, but from an administration standpoint, it will be a headache to figure out who will opt out and who wouldn't and secondly, from the financial standpoint of the organization, translink can sort of figure out how much money will be coming in from these fees based on student enrollment so they can draw out their business plans.

OP's intention may have been good, but it went to shit because his language was condescending towards other schools. lost all credibility there.

you want ppl on a car forum to vote for buses? :rofl:

If Translink ever bother to up their security system and install automatic ticket gates like the world have been doing it for years instead of waste money on a bunch of pigs to nag people once in a while, they'd make a shit load of more money, the transit system would be better.

They'd also be able to let all post secondary students in the GVRD ride for free.