Take Another Ride On LTD, You Can Get It To Go…
Nowhere, apparently. Those of you who’re new to the Eugene area won’t remember the damnable LTD girl commercials, but as horrible as they were, they at least advertised a service that existed. Further, a service that students pay for and could actually use.
If LTD is shut down by a strike, Lane County should refund somewhere in the neighborhood of 2/3 of the ~$500,000 incidental fee subsidy that is paid for the student bus passes. You see, my pretties, taking the bus isn’t free, you’ve just already paid for it. However, unlike most of the other crap that the incidental fee gets wasted on, at ~$25 per student per year the LTD pass is a steal compared to their retail rates. Granted, there’s some rule in place such that incidental fee money cannot be returned directly to students (Dan, Adrian?), but the $330,000 and change could be put in a holding account to be applied to next year’s LTD subsidy.
Of course, what’s likely to happen in the (highly improbable) event that LTD does the right thing, is that money being put into the over-realized fund and used for some more solar panels on the EMU.
