The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is currently considering both raising fares and altering several transportation schedules in order to cut back its projected $919 million budget proposal for next year.

Proposals include increasing all rail and bus fares by 10 cents, ending service at midnight on weekends and cutting shuttles to Dulles International Airport completely.

On Saturdays and during non-peak hours on weekdays, trains would run every 15 minutes instead of every 12 minutes. On Sundays, trains would run every 20 minutes instead of every 15 minutes.

Currently, eight local jurisdictions fund the Metro. There was a public hearing Thursday to discuss these proposals.

More than a dozen people testified against the new proposals, and no one spoke in favor of them.

In response, the Metro board decided to table a decision for two weeks.

WMATA spokesperson Michael Tolbert maintained that no final decisions have been made.

“At this point, no decision has been made … and the issue has been tabled. All options remain on the table,” Tolbert said.

The Metro board of directors approved a 3 percent fare increase last March.

Georgetown students expressed dismay at the service cuts, believing that they would exacerbate existing inadequacies in the Metro’s service, such as early shutdowns on weeknights.

“I don’t like how it stops running relatively early on weeknights, runs very irregularly on weekends and is so much more infrequent on the Red Line than the Orange/Blue/Silver corridor through downtown,” Jonathan Doernhofer (SFS ’18) said.

Noah Nelson (COL ’18), who grew up in the D.C. area, said he has had these issues with the Metro for years.

“I have taken the Metro for as long as I can remember. My biggest concern with the Metro system is that the Metro only stays open until midnight Sunday through Thursday,” Nelson said. “For those who take public transportation to work … a serious problem arises with such an early closure time during the week.”