UMSU president Jakob Sanderson went before the Winnipeg city council during its Nov. 21 meeting to urge councillors to scrap the expected upcoming $24.50 increase to the U-Pass, calling the impact the pass has made on students and sustainability in the city at large “unambiguously positive.”

The U-Pass program, implemented at the U of M in the fall 2016 term, currently comes at a cost of $136.25 to students per term.

The fee increase would see that cost rise to $160.75.

According to Sanderson, the program has single-handedly removed 5,000 vehicles from routes leading to and from the U of M.

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