Being a high school student, presumably she didn&#x27;t choose to live there. If the station closes it looks like she&#x27;s being punished for something that wasn&#x27;t her fault. It seems unfair&#x2F;unequal because none of the other riders are being treated that way. The &quot;unfairness&quot; of making the other riders wait is much less salient because they were doing it already and it&#x27;s only a short wait. Looking it at from a purely utilitarian point of view gives results that conflict with common human intuition (technically you could assign monetary values to &quot;image of fairness&quot;, &quot;social harmony&quot;, etc. but that&#x27;s rarely if ever done because it&#x27;s so difficult). I&#x27;m not the only person approving of keeping the station open despite the cost, so I can&#x27;t be the only person to value these vague&#x2F;intuitive social values.