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nature. there's a cost associated with that. and the feasibility of that has to be weighed against the cost of applying it to the entire population. there's also -- i've heard from people concerns that if you do it by income, you don't want to have stigma created where you have muni or the m.t.a. becomes the poor kids' mode of transportation. and then there's larger issue of we know we want to make sure that we have as wide of ridership as we can and we want an investment in having a broad net in terms of the future generation of riders. but i think those are all discussions that we ...

don't stop at 17. but moving in the other direction, there are ways to minimize the revenue impact of this such as limiting times of day, days of week, months of year, limiting by income levels. and i appreciate reasons not to do all of those things. the other thing i would suggest considering is a much reduced as opposed to a free fast pass. not only because that minimizes the revenue impact, but because that is an argument to be made that engenders buy-in, that people value something that they pay for, even if it's a very phenomenal amount. so i just kind of offer those for your co...