UW-Madison might stop funding the campus bus system, meaning students would pay for the services through segregated fees, members of the Associated Students of Madison’s Student Transportation Board said Friday.
Students currently pay for 47 percent of the bus system, amounting to $770,000.
Administrators have told members of the STB that students would likely be expected to pay for 74 percent of the system by 2015, amounting to $1.4 million.
“Students have been unfairly viewed as a blank check,” STB Chair Chase Wilson said in a press release. “Transportation Services may believe they can pressure students into paying entirely for programs that the university no longer sees as their responsibility, but we disagree.”
The board plans to negotiate with university officials for bus system funding.
The university was unavailable for comment.
