Dc Metro Fare Card Expiration

Still have some old paper metro farecards or metrocheks.

Dc metro fare card expiration. Using a smartrip card is fast and easy. Special discounted student passes are available for district of columbia residents. Smart card product purchases expire if they are not loaded to your smart card within 30 days of purchase. You have up to a year after the expiration date on the card to transfer the balance at a booth a metrocard vending machine or by mailing it in to metrocard customer claims.

The system delivers your online purchases to the rail stations and buses that you ve used in the last 21 days. It s plastic like a credit card and is embedded with a special computer chip that keeps track of the value of the card. We have six of the 10 reloadable smartrip cards each with a few dollars remaining. If your card expires you can transfer the balance to a new card.

Simply touch the smartrip card to the circular targets on top of or inside. In an effort to eliminate the use of paper farecards metro. A smartrip card is a permanent rechargeable card used to pay metrorail and local bus system fares. Our friends are heading there in a couple of weeks and we wondered if they would be able to use up the last bit of fare on these cards.

To determine the fares between two stations go to the metrorail stations page and click on the station where you re starting your trip. Metrobus fare for regular routes is 2 00 using a smartrip card or cash. Hello my family just returned from a fabulous visit in dc. The fare for express routes is 4 25 using a smartrip card or cash.

Metrorail fares for seniors and people with disabilities all times senior citizens 65 and older people with disabilities and customers with a medicare card and valid photo id ride for half the peak fare with a reduced fare smartrip card. Use them or trade them in soon because they ll be worthless starting friday. Metro is closely following the covid 19 public health emergency and will announce credit plans for our customers once metro service returns back to normal.