WELCOME ABOARD FARES Ride On subject to change About The Division of Transit Services User Guide Description FEE The Division of Transit Services accomplishes an Regular Fare, Token, or SmarTrip® $2.00 essential mobility mission of Montgomery County Seniors age 65 years or older with valid Metro Senior ID Card or with valid Medicare Card and Photo ID by connecting people, communities, workplaces, FREE from 9:30AM - 3PM Monday - Friday and 8:30AM - educational institutions, recreational opportunities 4PM Saturday and many other essential destinations. To the extent Person with disability with Metro Disabled that transit reduces the number of vehicles on the Identification Card from 9:30AM - 3PM Monday - Friday and 8:30AM - 4PM Saturday roads in Montgomery County, especially during the FREE Person with disability with Metro Disability ID Card - rush periods, transit increases the efficiency of the Attendant Eligible infrastructure. Moreover, transit plays a key role in Attendant rides half fare or free depending on time the viability of the local economy and in the Seniors and persons with disability with valid ID except livability of our neighborhoods. during free periods: • Senior/Disabled SmarTrip® or Cash $1.00 RIDING THE BUS • Senior/Disabled SmarTrip® Transfer from $.50 Metrorail Seniors and persons with disability Express Fares (Route For your comfort and safety: 70) except during free periods: ➢ Have your fare ready when boarding the bus and • Senior/Disabled SmarTrip® or Cash $2.10 • Senior/Disabled SmarTrip® Transfer from $1.60 understand how to insert the fare correctly. Metrorail ➢ Move to the rear of the bus so others may board • Senior/Disabled SmarTrip® Transfer from local bus $1.10 quickly. • Senior/Disabled Boarding with 7-Day Regional Bus $1.10 Pass – Additional ➢ Allow seniors and disabled persons to occupy MetroAccess Certified Customer with ID FREE priority seating. MetroAccess - Companion ➢ Please do not occupy more than one seat when Kids Ride Free on all Routes with ID FREE others need seating. MTA & MARC Weekly and Monthly Bus and Rail Transit Services ➢ Please keep strollers clear of aisles and doorways. FREE Montgomery County Department of Transportation ➢ Refrain from smoking, eating, drinking, or spitting. Passes & Transit Link Cards (TLC) Children under age 5 FREE · 240-777-0311· ➢ Use headphones at low volume when playing audio Limit 2 children per paying passenger 101 Monroe St · 5th Floor devices. Local Bus Transfer with SmarTrip® FREE Rockville, Maryland 20850 ➢ Stay behind the safety line on the bus when you are $1.50 (see standing (Federal Law). “TRANSFERS” Metrorail-to-Ride On Bus Transfer ➢ Allow the operator to drive the bus safely by not section for Website: www.RideOnBus.com speaking with the operator while the bus is moving. details) Track Your Bus at: www.RideOnRealTime.com ➢ As a courtesy, exit from the rear and hold the rear Express Fare - Route 70 SmarTrip® or Cash $4.25 Express Fare - Transferring to Route 70 from Metrorail Subscribe to Email Alerts: $3.75 door open for the person behind you when exiting. with SmarTrip® www.montgomerycountymd.gov/govdelivery Express Fare - Boarding Route 70 with 7-Day Regional Like us on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/RideOnMCT Bus Pass, Ride On monthly pass, or TLC pass need to $2.25 Follow us on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/RideOnMCT ACCESSIBILITY pay additional cash Express Fare - Route 70 Transferring from local bus to Watch us on YouTube: www.YouTube.com/RideOnMCT $2.25 All buses are accessible. In accordance with the Route 70 with SmarTrip® Follow us on Instagram: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and directives Ride On Monthly Pass $45.00 https://www.instagram.com/rideonmct/ from the Federal Transit Administration, Ride On will VanGo Shuttle -Route 28 - Downtown Silver Spring FREE make every effort, to the maximum extent feasible, to ensure that a person with a disability has access to,

and benefits from, its services. Revised 7/1/2019 TRIP PLANNING RESOURCES SmarTrip® Card (cont’d) TRANSFERS Points to Remember: ➢ Ride On no longer issues or accepts paper transfers. These tools make it easy to plan your trip while at ➢ SmarTrip® card is rechargeable and can hold up to $300. ➢ You must use a SmarTrip® card to get free transfers home, work, or on the go. Please note that these tools ➢ Add selected bus and rail passes to your SmarTrip® card from bus-to-bus, including Metrobus or Ride On. are constantly being improved and may not always online. The card can hold up to two passes at once. ➢ The time limit for transferring between buses is 2 hours. provide the best solution for your trip. ➢ For customer service, call 1-888-SMARTRIP (762-7874) ➢ SmarTrip® users receive a $.50 discount on their rail ➢ Google Maps - https://www.google.com/maps/ or email smartrip@wmata.com. Cards must be fare when transferring from Ride On to Metrorail. ➢ Metro's Trip Planner - https://www.wmata.com registered for customer service assistance. ➢ SmarTrip® users receive a $.50 discount transferring ➢ You may prefer to contact the MC311 Information ➢ Customers can check balances and add money to the card from Metrorail trains to Ride On. This means that the Center for trip planning assistance by dialing 311 on buses as well as at Metro stations. bus fare for SmarTrip users will be $1.50 after riding within Montgomery County or 240-777-0311 from ➢ Recover the balance of your money if your SmarTrip® is the train. Using a SmarTrip® card has many benefits: outside the County. lost or stolen. NOTE: card must be registered ahead of • Saves you $1.00 roundtrip when you use bus time to take advantage of this. and Metrorail. Please note that when snow, storms or other special Adding value to your card: circumstances occur that affect Ride On's ability to Express Route 70: follow normal weekday schedules, bus service may ➢ Use a Farecard or Pass machine in a Metrorail station, a ▪ An express fare is charged on the Route 70. operate under the 'S' Service Plan, 'S' Service Plan - bus farebox, or at a participating retail outlet o Express Fare - Route 70 - SmarTrip® or (Spanish version). (find locations at wmata.com). Cash = $4.25. o Riders with SmarTrip® will get free transfers to Adding value using a Farecard or other local routes and a $.50 discount going to SYSTEM MAP Pass machine: or coming from Metrorail. Riders transferring ➢ Touch your card to the target and from a local regular route to an Express will follow the prompts have the difference of $2.25 automatically Please visit www.RideOnBus.com - “Trip Planning” ➢ Insert money or a farecard (with a deducted from their SmarTrip® card. page to view Ride On's electronic version of the value of $20 or less). You may also use a Visa, ▪ Ride On's Monthly Pass, 7-Day Regional Bus Pass, or system map. MasterCard, Discover, American Express, JCB or ATM TLC will be good for $2.00 credit toward an express card (each transaction must be done separately). fare. For a list of Ride On Routes/Schedules please visit ➢ Press the plus (+) or minus (-) button until the amount TITLE VI “Ride On Schedules” page at www.RideOnBus.com. displayed is the new value you want your card to have. If adding value with a farecard, the added value cannot Montgomery County assures that no person shall, on the be less than the trade-in value of the farecard. grounds of race, color, or national origin, as provided by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights ➢ Touch your card to the target a final time. This updates SmarTrip® Card Act of 1987, be excluded from the participation in, be the card and shows the new balance. denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to You can also add a 1-Day or 7-Day Metrorail pass at the The SmarTrip® card works on Ride On! SmarTrip® is discrimination under any program or activity. For more a permanent, plastic, rechargeable card with a computer Farecards and Pass machine. information please visit chip that tracks the value of the card. http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DOT- Paying your fare with your SmarTrip® Card: Transit/titlevi.html. This convenient electronic card ➢ Touch your card to the target on the top of a Metrorail makes travel on transit in the faregate and a bus farebox, and the top of a Metrorail QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, region seamless and saves you station parking entrance/exit machine. COMPLIMENTS & COMPLAINTS money. With SmarTrip®, travelers ➢ The correct fare is automatically deducted from To make a MCDOT service request, compliment or can pay for Metrorail, Metrobus, Ride On and parking SmartBenefits, stored value or the ride is verified for a complaint, call 311. When dialing outside of the county, at Metro stations. pass product transaction. call 240-777-0311 or submit via MC311’s website at ➢ A minimum fare of $1.75 for off-peak and $2.25 for peak http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/mc311/ ($1.00 for senior/disabled) is required for entry into the NOTE: Manage your account online at smartrip.com. Metrorail system. *** Information Subject to Change ***