Reduced fare public transit

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I'd applied for reduced fare public transit for disability (in two places, the city buses and the MBTA).

I just got approved for a 5 year transportation access pass for the MBTA, meaning that once I go and get the pass it, I'll get reduced fare tickets. My application was because of Asperger's.

So, others might also want to look into this, at least if you're like me and need to rely on public transit because of an inability to drive.

And I really hope that when I get back the one for the city buses I'll have been approved there too, but that hasn't showed up in the mail yet.

Yes, I've done this and been approved as well. On a very limited budget, reduced bus fare can be a godsend. I still try to walk as much as I possibly can, though.

In the UK you can get a free bus pass and a 20% train discount... although the latter doesn't help much with our high train prices! As much as I hate buses, it does make things so much easier because all I have to do is get on the bus, put my card on the reader while telling the driver where I am going then I get my ticket! I don't think you can get the bus pass here just for AS, I think you have to be on benefits like disability living allowance (which you can claim if you have AS which is causing significant difficulty in your day to day life).

They've changed the regulations for disability bus passes (at least in my area). You have to be on high rate mobility to qualify. The irony of that is that people who are able to meet the criteria for high rate mobility would be incapable of using buses anyway.

There is a way around it, though. You can get your GP to write a letter to the DVLA saying that you are medically unfit to hold a driving licence and use that as evidence to claim a bus pass.

I haven't done that because I'm not willing to sign off my right to a driving licence just yet. I still have faint, lingering hopes for a better life.

I have a driver's license; just not a car. I can't afford a car on disability payments. I had no trouble getting the reduced-fare pass. I guess in some areas you have to be a non-driver; but in my area, you just have to have a disability that makes it harder to get around somehow. For me, it just makes it harder to pay for a car, but that's enough for the purposes of the bus pass. And I have to admit that it's just much less stressful not to have to drive. Driving is such a cognitively resource-intensive activity.

I didn't know that. I think I got one because I live in a care home then... I am on lower mobility but I am still entitled to one apparently. Unless like you say, it is a regional thing.

I know the applications I filled out both asked if I was able to do everything assumed for daily living and seemed to be if you can't you qualify. Also, one you could qualify for with any developmental disability and the other specifically asked about autism.

I would in the case being described for the UK get that letter that I cannot drive as I truly expect for it never to be safer than someone with uncontrolled narcelepsy driving. Sensory opverload and not being able to deal with headlights is harsh.

My Scottish-wide bus pass expires shortly, I have uploaded the back of the letter I received.
It shows the current criteria for holding a concession travel card.

I hopped on that train
as well.

Got my 1/2 price
"Honored Citizen"
pass last week.
Lucky enough
to live in a great
public transportation city.

I take the bus & MAX
because I won't ride my bike
any longer.
(one too many
head injuries)
and I hate to drive.
(my in-car meltdowns
are scary).

The California Transportation Authority likes to brag about how great its bus service is. However, to get from my home to my place of employment takes five transfers and two hours, and the nearest bus stop to my office is a mile down the mountain.

I can get there by POV in about 35 minute.

Even though I also have a Honored Citizen ID card for use on public transportation, it's going to become complicated within the next week because the city's public transportation system will begin using Hop Cards for everyone.

My husband and I were planning to take the specialized bus for seniors and the disabled, to get to our exercise class today, since I can't drive while my ankle heals and he can't drive at all (dementia).

We phoned in our reservation for a trip. The bus never showed up.

This is the kind of crap you have to put up with if you are among the needy. Not that I have found buses for the fully able to be much better.