June 28, 2011
by Callie Crossley, WGBH

June 16, 2011
by Yawu Miller, Bay State Banner

For most Boston School students, the MBTA is the system that makes their education attainable. But for some students, the $20 to pay for their monthly pass can be an insurmountable barrier that blocks them from graduation.

June 13, 2011
by Steve Annear, Boston Metro

A collaboration of city youth groups is urging the MBTA to launch a Youth Pass program that offers $10 unrestricted monthly fares for anyone between the ages of 12 and 21.

June 10, 2011
by Chris Lovett, BNN News

Students Call for More Affordable MBTA Fares from Chris Lovett on Vimeo.

June 9, 2011
by Yvonne Abraham, Boston Globe

“The wrong people are telling our stories.’’

Amatullah Mervin was sitting in a Dudley Square conference room this week with some other teenagers, talking about how invisible their work is. The State House lobbying efforts, the summer job rallies, they all seem to disappear beneath other stories from their neighborhoods — the murder on Bowdoin Street, the Carson Beach gang war that wasn’t.

February 26, 2011
by Jason Pramas, Open Media Boston

Over 1,000 teenagers and youth advocates from across Massachusetts marched from Copley Square to the State House on Thursday to lobby for more funding for youth jobs in the Fiscal Year 2012 Mass. state budget.

October 22, 2009
David Taber and John Ruch, Jamaica Plain Gazette

All of the candidates also said they support youth advocacy efforts to for a reduced fare MBTA pass for Boston residents between the ages of 15 and 21. Youths from the non-profit Alternatives for Community and the Environment (ACE) recently successfully campaigned to get the MBTA to extend the hours when free student passes will be honored from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

September 24, 2009

By Yawu Miller,
Bay State Banner

Outgoing Transportation Secretary James A. Aloisi Jr. has agreed to research the feasibility of creating a youth pass, which would allow riders between the ages of 12 and 21 to ride the MBTA for a reduced fare.

September 9, 2009
By Noah Bierman, Boston Globe

The MBTA, at the urging of student activists, has extended the hours when junior high and high school students can use their discount passes on trains and buses -- to 11 p.m. on weekdays.

June 29, 2009
By Shaniquekwa Avinger and Isaac Ramos, Press Pass TV

Check out this story that Press Pass TV produced with the Boston Area Youth Organizing Project about the campaign to create an accesible youth public transportation pass.