EMTA app allows you to purchase tickets on phone

The Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority is partnering with the Token Transit App, an app that allows you to purchase bus passes on your phone before you board!

Passengers will be able to purchase single ride, transfers, reduced fare, day passes, 5-Ride passes, 20-ride passes, and VIP- 31 Day passes through the app with their credit or debit card. Riders can store passes on the app the future use. When you are ready to ride, tap your pass to activate. As you board the bus, show the driver your digital ticket and scan the Token Transit validator and you are all set!

Token Transit allows a “fare capping” feature as well. Fare-capping is a pay-as-you-go system that guarantees riders will never pay more than the lowest authorized fare for any period of travel. This is based on single ride and day passes purchased through the app. Once a rider has purchased $52.00 in single ride or day passes, the app will automatically grant the rider free rides for the rest of the month ($52.00 is the highest cash valued pass for 31 days unlimited rides).

Info: ride-the-e.com or www.tokentransit.com

Source: EMTA press release By Erica Nowak| April 9th, 2021|

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EMTA to get $11.6 million from American Rescue Plan

From  "Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority getting $11.6 million from American Rescue Plan"  Kevin Flowers Erie Times-News April 2, 2021: [

[EMTA exceutive director Jeremy] Peterson said EMTA must now develop "a transparent plan" for the American Rescue Plan money.
EMTA officials are studying the grant requirements and asking federal officials about whether there are any restrictions, Peterson said.
[...]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, addressing the American Rescue Plan funding, said in a statement that "transportation workers are serving on the front lines of this pandemic: delivering the vaccine, getting people to essential jobs and providing goods and services to people who need them.
"The critical American Rescue Plan funding we are announcing today will help prevent service cuts, protect employees from layoffs, keep riders and workers safe and strengthen our economy," Buttigieg said.
Dave Robinson, EMTA's board chairman, called the funding “existential” for EMTA and other transit agencies across the country.
“Everybody’s lost ridership and it’s going to take a while to bring that back,” Robinson said. “And that’s not a thing that you can just turn on and off. This money is going to help keep us afloat.”

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