Cleveland RTA Ticket Prices

I used RTA's website to find out what the various fare options are. A "ride" is a ride on a single vehicle, a "trip" is ride on multiple vehicles in a 2.5 hour period.

I calculated costs for me, somone who doesn't get any student, senior citizen, or other discount and who has to ride two transit vehicles (Rapid and bus) per "trip".

Type	Cost	Cost per day/Notes
1 ride	$2.25	$9.00/day (4 rides)
2 ride	$4.50?	$9.00/day (4 rides)
1 trip	???
2 trip	???
5 trip	$11.25	$4.50/day (2 trips/day)
Day	$5.00	$5.00/day (2 trips/day)
Week	$22.50	$4.50/day assuming riding 5 days/week
Month	$85.00	$3.86/day assuming riding 22 days/month (Cheaper than $4.50/day if riding 19 days or more per month)

So, Rob Pitingolo was correct when he said that it would be cheaper for me to buy a 5 trip pass rather than a full day pass.

Addition 11/17/2009: It turns out that you can't buy the 5 trip farecards at the Rapid stops, or at least you can't at W. 25th. Purchasing this particular item is more difficult than I would have thought. You can mail order them from the RTA website, so maybe that's what I'll do.

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¶ 11/09/2009 09:42:00 PM 2 comments