Using Your Connectcard
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ConnectCard Fare Where Can I get a Payment ConnectCard and Where Can I Use it? There are two options available to you for transit fare payment: Riders can pick up a ConnectCard 1.) Stored Cash Value- add cash to your at the Washington Transit Center, ConnectCard to pay for your fares. This located at 50 East Chestnut Street, USING YOUR stored cash is good at any participating Washington PA 15301. ConnectCards ConnectCard transit authority. You may are also available at all ConnectCard load any amount from $5-$200 onto your CONNECTCARD machines, including Port Authority's card at anytime. Downtown Service Center, East Busway 2.) Freedom Transit tickets- add tickets Penn Station, and all Downtown to your ConnectCard for specific Freedom Pittsburgh T Stations. Transit routes. These tickets are good for a one-way ride on the selected route. All tickets on the ConnectCard must be used before new ones can be purchased and You can use your ConnectCard to pay added on. your fare on any Freedom Transit fixed route service vehicle. Your ConnectCard is also a part of a Full Fare Multi-Ticket Packages “Regional Transit Partnership” which means 10 trips 31 trips that as a rider you have access to Freedom Transit transportation in many different cities and Single Zone $13.50 Single Zone $39.50 50 East Chestnut Street counties when used as stored cash value. Zones 1-2 $22.50 Zones 1-2 $66.00 The other participating transit authorities Washington, PA 15301 Zones 2-3 $31.50 Zones 2-3 $92.50 include: 724-223-8747 Zones 1-3 $45.00 Zones 1-3 $132.00 • Port Authority of Allegheny County [email protected] Reduced Fare Multi-Ticket Packages • Fayette Area Coordinated www.freedom-transit.org 10 trips 31 trips Transportation • Butler Transit Authority Single Zone $6.75 Single Zone $19.75 • Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority Zones 1-2 $11.25 Zones 1-2 $33.00 • Westmoreland County Transit Zones 2-3 $15.75 Zones 2-3 $46.25 Authority Zones 1-3 $22.50 Zones 1-3 $66.0 Make sure to register your card online at www.connectcard.org. Balance protection is available to you by Your ConnectCard registering your card online at Adding Stored Cash ConnectCard is a reusable smart www.connectcard.org. This protects the Value & Tickets card that makes paying your transit funds on your card in case it is lost or stolen. If your ConnectCard is lost or fares faster, easier, and more secure than paying with cash. After stolen please call Port Authority at you have loaded either a Freedom 412-442-2000. Transit ticket or stored cash value onto the card, you are able to use it When traveling with more than one on any Freedom Transit fixed route person, remember that each rider must service vehicle. have a ConnectCard. Fareboxes will not accept more than one tap from the same To add Freedom Transit tickets or card. You can load money onto your stored cash value: ConnectCard as stored cash value. • Visit the Washington Transit You may check the balance of your stored The cash loaded onto your card is Center, 50 East Chestnut Street, cash or your Freedom Transit ticket used to pay your fare on any Washington, PA 15301. purchases on any ConnectCard machine Freedom Transit route. You can load • Tap your card at a ConnectCard or on the ConnectCard online a minimum of $5.00 and a maximum ticket machine at any of the management system. of $200 in stored cash value onto the Downtown "T" Stations, South card. Hill's Village "T" Station, the Port Freedom Transit tickets are only Authority Customer Service redeemable on Freedom Transit routes. You can also load Freedom Transit Center, or the East Busway Penn Port Authority and other transit tickets onto your card for any of Station. authorities will not accept Freedom our routes. If your ConnectCard has • Log onto www.connectcard.org. Transit tickets as payment for their fares, both tickets and stored cash value Online ticket and cash value and vice versa. loaded onto it, the farebox will purchases may be made only by deduct the tickets first. Visa, MasterCard, or Discover Fareboxes are programmed to take credit card payments. tickets before stored cash value. When Using the ConnectCard is easy. riding on any Freedom Transit route, the Simply tap your card to the reader on When using the online portal to make farebox will automatically deduct a ticket the farebox and the funds needed for ticket or stored cash value purchases to pay for the fare before stored cash is your fare will be deducted. Once you please keep in mind that it may take receive a green light and a single deducted. 72 hours or longer for the purchase to beep from the farebox, you are good Anyone older than 11 will need their own be loaded to your ConnectCard. Please to go. ConnectCard to board the transit vehicle. plan ahead. .