Senior, Disabled and Medicare Discounted Fares

Senior citizens (60+), disabled individuals, and Medicare recipients ride for a reduced fare on fixed-route buses and Trolleys. Here's how:

To ride for reduced fare on fixed-route buses, show the driver proper ID and pay your cash fare, or show your monthly pass. On the Trolley, purchase your ticket from the vending machine in advance of boarding and show your ticket or your monthly pass and proper ID to the fare inspector upon request. We accept the following forms of identification:

• Driver's license
• Medicare card
• MTS Senior/Disabled ID card
• NCTD Senior/Disabled ID card
• State of California DMV Placard ID (the white placard receipt from the DMV)
• State of California Senior ID card

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Getting Your Transit Identification Card

MTS Senior ID
MTS Disabled ID

To obtain an MTS Senior ID, senior citizens (60+) must show proof of age with one of the following forms of valid picture ID:

  • Birth certificate
  • Driver's license
  • State of California Senior ID
  • Medicare card
  • Immigration papers
  • CO card
  • Passport
  • Affidavit from a physician or clergy person

Please bring your ID to The Transit Store, located at 102 Broadway in downtown San Diego, on weekdays between 9 am and 4:30 pm.

To obtain an MTS Disabled ID, qualified individuals must show the following:

1) Valid picture ID - see list at left

2) One of the following:

  • Original letter on letterhead stationery or a prescription form from a certified/licensed doctor or California agency stating the following: your name, the current date, and the statement that you are permanently disabled or temporarily disabled (six months or fewer)
  • Medicare card
  • State of California placard ID (the white placard receipt from the California DMV)
  • Active I.E.P. from a school for disabled students
  • Current year S.S.I., S.S.A., or S.S.D.I. award letter
  • Original letter on letterhead stationery from the Epilepsy Foundation, San Diego Center for the Blind, or San Diego Regional Center
  • Veterans Administration card with picture (must say "service connected on card)

If you have a question as to whether your information is acceptable as verification of disability, please call The Transit Store at 619-234-1060.

Important note: Documents that have been altered or copied are not acceptable.

Please bring your ID and verification of disability to The Transit Store, located at 102 Broadway in downtown San Diego, on weekdays between 9 am and 4:30 pm.

 

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