That being said, if an agreement can be reached, let me just say, I am a mature student of civil engineering at Ryerson, and I generally use the GO Train from Malton Station (I'm from Brampton), if York U students can get a free subway shuttle, why can't Ryerson or U of Toronto students get the same treatment? Indeed, I generally walk the distance of the PATH once at Union (I got no idea what a U of T student does on the other hand), but all I'm saying, if York U students get this special treatment, so should Ryerson and U of T students.
It's not special treatment, you're equating radically different situations.
Today, and for the past MANY years, York U students have been able to take GO, YRT/Viva, and Brampton/ZUM buses directly into the heart of campus, just paying the fare for their transit agency. One bus has taken them all the way on one fare.
Now, many of those buses will be cut back not to service York U anymore, because of the subway extension being built. The subway is allegedly an improvement to transit service, to encourage more people to take transit and make trips more efficient.
But, if the fare agreement is not in effect, students--who generally aren't wealthy, to say the least--will suddenly face, roughly, a doubling of their transit expenditures, which might make it more economical for some of them to start driving instead of transit, and might make it impossible for others to continue attending York if they cannot afford an extra ~$1500 a year. And this is really an insult, seeing as today they are able to get to campus on one fare, but a supposed "improvement", funded with their tax dollars, would lengthen their trips and cost them $1500/year.
It should be obvious why this is unreasonable. If they pay $3.00 on December 30th 2017, they should not have to pay $6.00 on December 31st 2017 (assuming the subway opens then) for the luxury of an added transfer and a potentially longer travel time, which they already funded through their taxes.
Ryerson and U of T students have never been able to take a YRT, Brampton, or GO bus directly to campus as none of those agencies operate service into downtown Toronto. This is not a new situation. They did not go into their studies with that in place.