About the Hamilton Street Affordable Railway (HSR) Accessible Easy. Convenient . Accessible . Affordable Easy and Convenient Taking the bus is a great option to help get you where you need to be in Hamilton and can used as often or as Let’s Take the little as you need it. for Seniors Bus The Hamilton Street Railway is Hamilton’s local public transportation Let’s Take the Bus is an interactive system. The bus is a quick, easy and workshop designed to reintroduce safe way to get around. HSR buses older adults to the HSR & other ways 65+ GUIDE TO travel just about everywhere within the to get around the City! City of Hamilton. There are over 30 bus TAKING THE BUS routes serving Hamilton, Stoney Creek, To organize a workshop for your IN HAMILTON Dundas, Ancaster and Waterdown. group or for information about Buses run seven days a week on most upcoming workshops, please contact routes, from around 5:30 a.m. to 1:00 Shelagh Kiely, Project Coordinator A Program of the Hamilton Council a.m. the next morning. 905-777-3837 ext. 12238 | [email protected] on Aging (HCoA), in Partnership with the Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) @HamOnt_Aging @HamiltonCouncilonAging Let’s Take the Bus is part of the HCoA Let’s In partnership with Get Moving Project, generously funded by the City of Hamilton, Senior’s the Ontario Sport and Recreation Advisory Committee, & Retired Communities Fund Teachers of Ontario (Chapter 13) JANUARY 2019 ABOUT PRESTO The PRESTO card is a wallet-sized smartcard which can hold a monthly or annual bus pass as well as a cash value between $10-$1000 PRESTO can be used to pay fares on 4 WAYS TO PLAN YOUR TRIP many different public transit systems, PAYING YOUR WAY including the HSR, Burlington Transit 1. Use a Paper Timetable and GO TRANSIT Timetables for each route are *Rates updated September 1, 2018 available at the HSR Customer To use PRESTO, tap it against the Service Centre & MacNab St. There are 3 different ways to pay your PRESTO reader when you enter the bus bus fare in Hamilton. You can choose Terminal. the payment option that makes the 2. Call the HSR information number most sense for you! 905 527 4441 If you know your 4-digit stop Paying Cash ($3.00) number, enter it to listen to Buying an Adult Bus Ticket upcoming scheduled stops. ($2.40) Press 0 to speak with an operator or Using your Presto Card request information in another personalized to you: language. ($6 initial fee for card) LOCATIONS TO PURCHASE o Senior Single Fare (65+) YOUR PRESTO CARD 3. Use HSR’s Trip Planner by ($2) visiting www.hamilton.ca/hsr o Senior Monthly Pass HSR Customer Service Centre, 4. Use Google Maps by visiting (65+) ($29.50) 36 Hunter Street East www.google.ca/maps o Senior Annual Pass (65+) City Hall & Municipal Centres Click on the transit icon and enter 71 Main Street West, ($295) o your trip information. o Golden Age Pass (80+) Hamilton 300 Wilson Street East, (FREE with the purchase o of a $6 PRESTO Card at Ancaster CONTACT THE HSR the Hunter Street GO o 60 Main Street, Dundas Station) o 777 Highway #8, Stoney 36 Hunter Street East, Hamilton Creek 905-527-4441 You must have a PRESTO card to pay Fortinos across greater Hamilton the reduced senior fare. Proof of age *NEW! Shoppers Drug Mart across is required to purchase and use a greater Hamilton @HSR @HSRNow PRESTO Senior Bus Pass. Online (reloading only) www.prestocard.ca hamilton.ca/HSR .