Metro is eliminating paper transfer coupons this weekend that allow riders to transfer for free between buses and from buses to trains for discounted rates. Skip to content. Main Navigation.

A Metro board finance committee said Thursday that anyone with extra paper farecards will only have until June 2016 to… Click to toggle navigation menu. Headlines ...

The D.C. Metro board approved a decision on May 22 to eliminate the use of paper tickets, instead requiring all metro users to purchase SmarTrip cards. The change will occur over the next 18 months.

Metro's been making a big deal of its plan to eliminate paper transfers, a move that took effect Sunday, but it left out one detail. It won't accept paper transfers from other area transit agencies.

Paper bus transfers are going the way of trolleys in the District of Columbia. ... WMATA will save about $350,000 in printing and purchasing costs, and Metro spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said the ...

Metro saying goodbye to paper Farecards; in 18 months, SmarTrip will be your only option. June 8, 2014. Paper farecards will be phased out of the Metro system by December 2015.

Valley Metro riders have a couple of months left before they lose the fare they have on their paper passes. Smart Fare was introduced during the summer by Valley Metro, which said the new pay-as ...