The Green Pass program at Austin Community College will be continuing its pilot run through the summer semester. The passes are good for all Capital Metro services, including the month-old MetroRail.
All enrolled students, faculty and non-hourly staff are eligible to pick up a new pass from any campus cashier office starting on May 17 and they will be valid through August 22. However, students that drop all of their classes will have thier issued passes deactivated as the passes are linked to the student's ID number.
"That's really good. I use it every day," said Rio Grande student Noor Nahas.
The program started in January as part of ongoing sustainability efforts to address parking and transportation issues and encourage more people to use Capital Metro services.
"We actually ran out of passes this semester. So far the pilot has been a great success," stated Brette Lea, Executive Director of Public Information and College Marketing.
The program is being funded with the increase of parking fees that started in August 2009 and the sustainability fund.
"I understand trying to be green, but I don't like paying for other people to ride the bus. They should fund it some other way than through the parking fees. The bus doesn't even come to my campus," commented Josh Killmon, student at the Cypress Creek campus.
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