{"id":2891,"date":"2008-03-18T21:05:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T02:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/03\/18\/scarborough-students-vote-do-u-u-pass\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:36:33","slug":"scarborough-students-vote-do-u-u-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/03\/18\/scarborough-students-vote-do-u-u-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarborough Students Vote: Do U U-Pass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2105\/2191385390_eb212a5522.jpg?v=0\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Starting tomorrow, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus students will put conventional wisdom to the test as they go to the polls to say Yes or No to a U-Pass.<\/p>\n<p>Until January, UTSC was only less likely than Humber College and Centennial College to get in on a U-Pass. At the time, Scarborough Campus Students&#8217; Union president Rob Wulkan was still thought to be cool to the concept and, while good for UTSC students, the economics of a U-Pass weren&#8217;t nearly as enticing to Scarborough as they were (and are) for the downtown schools. Yet it is UTSC that now has Toronto on the brink of the new deal for transit that so many students have asked for and worked towards.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve already <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/01\/17\/the-case-for-torontos-u-pass\/\">made the case<\/a> for a U-Pass, I&#8217;m going to skip the pros and cons list and tell you why I think the referendum is likely to pass when all the votes are tallied on Thursday night (all data from TTC market research):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>-On principle, 72% of UTSC students support the concept of a U-Pass.<\/li>\n<li>-The average UTSC student takes nine trips per week on the TTC and spends more than $75 on TTC per month.<\/li>\n<li>-The average student at UTSC believes they would use their U-Pass for more than 15 trips per week ($126.75 value based on the average fare paid by UTSC students per trip).<\/li>\n<li>-Students polled at UTSC, on average, said that they would support a U-Pass priced at $57.58.<\/li>\n<li>-Sixty-two per cent of UTSC students rely on public transit as their primary mode of transit to school.<\/li>\n<li>-Eighty-one per cent of UTSC students live 2KM or more from campus, with 58% more than 5KM from the school and only 10% 1KM or less away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The wild card in all of this is which voters turn out. Campus referendums tend to have appallingly low voter participation (UTSC has a 5% quorum requirement) and, as conventional wisdom in campus politics goes, commuter students vote in significantly lower numbers than their on-campus peers. If that trend continues it could be bad news for the U-Pass. Guess we&#8217;ll have to see how conventional wisdom holds up on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roland\/\">Roland<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting tomorrow, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus students will put conventional wisdom to the test as they go to the polls to say Yes or No to a U-Pass. Until January, UTSC was only less likely than Humber College and Centennial College to get in on a U-Pass. At the time, Scarborough Campus Students&#8217; Union<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/03\/18\/scarborough-students-vote-do-u-u-pass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Scarborough Students Vote: Do U U-Pass?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4037,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[8435,31,4925,475,8437,89,8436,19,270,8434,391],"class_list":["post-2891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-transit","tag-centennial-college","tag-election","tag-humber-college","tag-president","tag-rob-wulkan","tag-scarborough","tag-scarborough-campus-students-union","tag-toronto","tag-university-of-toronto","tag-university-of-toronto-scarborough-campus","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scarborough Students Vote: Do U U-Pass? - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/03\/18\/scarborough-students-vote-do-u-u-pass\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scarborough Students Vote: Do U U-Pass? - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Starting tomorrow, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus students will put conventional wisdom to the test as they go to the polls to say Yes or No to a U-Pass. 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