It relates to this comment. I know that it doesn’t fix the violence to patch things over for one person at a time…but I feel really lousy after reading what you wrote and wanted to try to patch a little bit.

In my area, monthly passes (the only kind that you don’t go, “Ugggggghhhhh…do I REALLY want to deduct that balance off my card for this trip?” with) are sky-high unless you ride every single day, twice a day. I just looked at NYC and it looks like you have nearly identical prices on both per-ride and monthly.

Although it didn’t take away that “Uggghhhh…do I really want to?” feeling, what did make it at least less money to ponder the question over was getting passes off Craigslist.

Sometimes, people accumulated prepaid-fixed-value passes when they were given them at work but were drivers or something and would post them on Craiglist. Actually, that happened all the time–but sometimes, people would have them for 50% off or more. If they happened to be able to meet near where I’d already be during the day, it saved a lot of money and didn’t take too much time to get them.