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EASY Card Brochure Easy come, easy go with the card, issue a new one, and transfer the At an EASY Card vending balance available at the time you contact us. EASY Card You pay only a $2 card-replacement fee. machine, you can: Think of the EASY Card • Purchase an EASY Card or EASY Ticket with • Automatic loading – Enjoy the convenience as a debit card to pay your cash or a valid credit card (tokens and pennies of setting up your EASY Card account for transit fare. With the EASY are not accepted). automatic loading by calling the EASY Card Card, you don’t have to look Financial Center at 786-469-5151 or online • Load a 1-Month, 7-Day, or 1-Day pass on an for nickels and dimes every time you ride. Add at www.miamidade.gov/transit/easy-card.asp. EASY Card. up to $150 in cash value to your card to pay Have your credit card information ready. your transit fares, including transfers, or load • Purchase a 1-Month Pass with a monthly your EASY Card with a 1-Month (calendar • The EASY Ticket cannot be registered for Metrorail parking permit. month), 7-Day (consecutive), or 1-Day pass and automatic loading or balance protection. • Load a 7-Day or 1-Day pass on an EASY take advantage of unlimited rides for the period. Ticket. The EASY Card, which has an initial $2 cost, Where to purchase and add • Load cash value on an EASY Card or EASY is a durable hard-plastic fare card with an value or a pass to EASY Cards Ticket. embedded computer chip that automatically deducts the fare when you tap the card on the and Tickets: • Check the balance on your EASY Card or Metrobus fareboxes and Metrorail faregates. • EASY Card and EASY Ticket sales outlets are EASY Ticket. You don’t need an EASY Card or EASY Ticket located throughout Miami-Dade County. For • Pay for daily parking at Metrorail stations. to ride Metromover, since Metromover is free for the closest outlet, call 3-1-1, or find one online everyone. at www.miamidade.gov/transit/easy-card- The EASY Ticket is ideal for sales-outlets.asp. short-term use • At EASY Card vending machines located at MIAMI-D ADE T RANSIT all 23 Metrorail stations. EASY Card vending Tourists and customers who ET TICK machines offer information in English, Spanish don’t use transit regularly and Creole. can ride with the EASY Ticket. The EASY Ticket • At the Transit Service Centers at Government is made of paper and has the same Center Metrorail station and Overtown Transit contactless smart card technology as the EASY Village. Card, but it lasts only 60 days and can only be loaded with a 1-Day or a 7-Day pass, or cash • By calling the EASY Card Financial Center at value of up to $40. 786-469-5151 (EASY Cards only). • Online at www.miamidade.gov/transit/ Register your EASY Card and easy-card.asp (EASY Cards only). enjoy: • Free balance protection against loss or theft – We will cancel your lost or stolen EASY Card vending machines are available at all Metrorail stations. The easiest Easy come, easy go. way to pay your On Transit. transit fare! MIAMI-DADE COUNTY CARLOS A. GIMENEZ MAYOR BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS REBECA SOSA CHAIRWOMAN LYNDA BELL VICE CHAIRWOMAN BARBARA J. JORDAN LYNDA BELL DISTRICT 1 DISTRICT 8 JEAN MONESTIME DENNIS C. MOSS MIAMI-D ADE T DISTRICT 2 DISTRICT 9 RANSIT ET AUDREY M. EDMONSON SEN. JAVIER D. SOUTO TICK DISTRICT 3 DISTRICT 10 SALLY A. HEYMAN JUAN C. ZAPATA DISTRICT 4 DISTRICT 11 BRUNO A. BARREIRO JOSE "PEPE" DIAZ DISTRICT 5 DISTRICT 12 REBECA SOSA Esteban BOVO, JR. • Just tap and go. How EASY is that? DISTRICT 6 DISTRICT 13 XAVier L. SuareZ • Load a 1-Month, a 7-Day, or a 1-Day pass, DISTRICT 7 and/or cash value of up to $150 on an HARVEY RUVIN EASY Card. CLERK OF COURTS • Register your EASY Card for free balance Carlos LopeZ-Cantera Property Appraiser protection against loss or theft. ROBERT A. CUEVAS, JR. • Register your EASY Card to manage it COUNTY ATTORNEY online and automatically load cash value and/or passes. www.miamidade.gov/transit • The EASY Card is available online, by EASY Card Financial Center: 786-469-5151 The easiest way to pay phone, at all Metrorail stations, and at TTY: 305-468-5402 many conveniently-located sales outlets your transit fare throughout Miami-Dade County. May 2013 Paying the Metrobus fare Complete the transaction and take the printed Compare yoUR payment options receipt to the station security officer to receive the EASY way EASY EASY CASH your parking permit. Hang the permit from CARD TICKET ONLY When boarding a bus, tap your EASY Card your car’s rearview mirror for the duration of Metrobus Fare or EASY Ticket on the farebox. The fare is the month indicated on the permit. Metrorail Fare automatically deducted. You must use your own • At the Transit Service Center – When individual EASY Card or EASY Ticket to board a 1-Month Pass loading a 1-Month Pass on your EASY Card at bus. The EASY Card and EASY Ticket can only the Transit Service Center at the Government 7-Day Pass be used to pay a single patron’s fare. Center Metrorail station, pay for the Metrorail 1-Day Pass To pay on the bus with cash, deposit any monthly parking permit and the sales clerk will Up to Up to hand you the permit when the transaction is Add Stored Value combination of coins (no pennies accepted) or $150 $40 dollar bills in the farebox. Remember to deposit completed. Transfers the exact fare as fareboxes do not provide • Online or by phone – You can purchase a change. Monthly Parking Permit monthly Metrorail parking permit when you Transfers will be automatically deducted load a 1-Month Pass online or by phone. This One-Day Parking Fee from your EASY Card or EASY Ticket when should be done prior to the 23rd of the month Loss/Theft Protection transferring from rail to bus, bus to rail, or from to allow time for mailing. Keep your transaction Automatic Loading bus to bus if outside of the three hours after confirmation number. Your parking permit will paying the fare when boarding the first vehicle. A be mailed to you. Metrorail faregates do not accept cash. Use a valid credit card or cash * to purchase an EASY Card or Ticket at an EASY Card vending machine full fare will be deducted when transferring and use it to pay the fare at the faregate. to a bus or train traveling back in the Paying the one-day Metrorail direction from where your trip started. parking fee parking permit. For information, email mdtcdp@ miamidade.gov To earn a transfer, passengers must pay To pay the one-day Metrorail parking fee at an with an EASY Card or Ticket. Passengers EASY Card vending machine, select that option The College Discount Program paying the bus fare in cash will pay full from the menu on the screen. Remember your fare every time they board a bus. It is parking space number as you will be prompted Colleges, universities and strongly recommended to use an EASY to enter it. adult education centers Card or EASY Ticket when transfers are can offer their students needed. In addition to the daily parking fee, when a 1-Month Pass at a paying with cash value, the cost of one discounted rate loaded Metrorail ride will be deducted from your EASY on an orange EASY Ticket, by joining the Card or EASY Ticket. Miami-Dade Transit College Discount program. Call 786-469-5384 for program information or No additional fare will be deducted when visit www.miamidade.gov/transit. tapping your EASY Card or EASY Ticket at the EASY Card information: 3-1-1 or 305-468-5900 www.miamidade.gov/transit TDD service (deaf or hard-of-hearing): 305-468-5402 faregate. Riding at the discountedThis card must be presented to Miami-Dade Transitfare officials upon request. TAP The cost of the Metrorail ride will not be Qualified transit users such as Medicare EASY CARD HERE deducted for passengers with a monthly, weekly, recipients, most people with disabilities, and and daily pass loaded on their EASY Card. local students (grades K-12) can ride transit at Paying the The Corporate Discount Program a discount with a specially-coded EASY Card. Metrorail fare. For more information, visit www.miamidade. Tap in. Tap out. Customers participating gov/transit. in the Corporate Discount Metrorail faregates do not accept cash. Program receive special The Golden Passport and the Instead, head to one of the EASY Card vending black EASY Cards at Patriot Passport machines next to the faregates, purchase an their workplace. The Miami-Dade County residents 65 years of age EASY Card or EASY Ticket and load the pass cards, registered to each and older registered in the Golden Passport or value of your choice. Then, use the card employee, will be set for loss and theft program ride free with a specially coded EASY or ticket to pay the fare at the faregate. When balance protection and automatic Card. Golden Passport users 64 years of transferring from rail to bus, you must tap out loading of a 1-Month Pass and, if age and younger (Social Security at the Metrorail station where you transfer. requested, a monthly Metrorail beneficiaries), and Patriot Passport Otherwise, you will not get a transfer and will customers, must visit the have to pay full fare.
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