NYC Schoolkids a Step Closer to Losing Free Rides

The board of the nation's largest transit agency reluctantly approved a 2010 budget Wednesday that would cut bus and subway service and leave New York City children without free rides to public schools. (Dec. 17)

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[chingon711]

How about reverting the money they gave to Wall Street to to fund and repair our broken school system?....I mean I can understand there are no "free rides" and you should find your own way, but putting all your eggs in one basket like gving away billions to wall street bankers is fucking appalling...Am i awake or am i still dreaming?

[REPOTAG]

this is bllsht- they charge kids to ride the school bus in CA- it was free for us as kids- we should pay for them

[Aquamarine627]

Public schools are very dangerous places. I cannot trust the teachers, principals, supervisors and the chancellor. That is why I will not send my child to a public school in NYC.

With an eraser, any teacher can change the wrong answers and bubble up the right ones and change the grades to support the statistics.

Standards and tests are great, but the secrets behind the assessment and evaluation are alarming and you will never understand.

Long live Public Schools, I will take care of my child.

[bluec1988]

jaback is correct there are wolves out there even in NYC kids can get robbed at gun point, beaten up, raped and all sorts of things, and eats the things kids eat and the amount of thats making them fat.

when you give your 4 your old 7 pancakes for breakfest and the age of 7 or 10 the damages is already done. well what about the police force, well the police force in our city is also endangered being of laid off .

[logitechoz]

"easier said than done" agree, but it's not that hard to do.

[goov47]

logitehoz, easier said than done. Unless you make a big yearly salary, it's almost impossible to just get up and leave.

[goov47]

The money has to come from somewhere? Why don't that idiot so-called Mayor Bloomberg share some his BILLIONS instead of making life harder for evreyone. Lots of these kids cannot afford to pay the fare plus lunch. That would mean more high school dropouts and higher crime. These idiots mismanaged the money? How, by putting it into their own pockets? This is what greed does to you. Ridiculous!

[amorefati]

4.50? Damn. That is bullshit. I feel bad for these people, on top of school lunch, and all the other daily costs. I hope NY protests this maliciously. I live in Texas and the tollway authority here is ridiculous with their fines, but I could drive all the way to southern dallas and back (80 miles) for less than that. (speaking of the tollway costs)

[AlvaroAndfriends]

What i meant to say its fucking Dangerous walking to schools.

And these fuckers said that they dont have a choice while they are debating on this major and serious issue? These fuckers can kiss my ass i would let them know that i cant spend money on school passes unless these fuckers puts more money into my paycheck.

Where the hell did the money go when they borrowed that much money? How the fuck is NYC so bankrupt?

If they eliminate bus passes i would consider home schooling my siblings.

[AlvaroAndfriends]

Fucking idiots i mean seriously what the fuck? I have 5 brothers and sisters and several niece and nephews that rely on school passes to go to school on weekdays.

Their mothers cant pay for the rides because they would have to spend thousand of dollars each year for them to go to school. We dont get better pay and these fuckers wanna Obliterate school passes?

Its fucking dangerous to be walking in schools i bet this is a huge victory to the pedophiles and rapist out there.

[24Abstract]

MTA has monopolized New Yorks transportation.

[342157]

i live in manhattan but im lucky i can walk 2 school ,,and the MTA ar a bunch of crooks they make like a 100million a week what the hell ar they doin with the money