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SFMTA Announces the Essential Trip Card (ETC) – If you are 65+ and/or have a Disability, You Can Get Up to $48 Per Month for Taxi Rides Instead of Taking Our Now-Decimated MUNI Service – Sorry, No UBER, No Lyft

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Here ya go:

Essential Trip Card – Save when taking a taxi for an essential trip

I’d have thought they’d have something like this sooner, on well. Of course decimated in the transit sense means when you cut MUNI service by 10% up front and then another 70% a little while later and that’s where we are not. Some cities would go with UBER / Lyft but not our SFMTA.

All the deets:

“We know that for many people with disabilities and seniors, walking farther to an alternate bus — or paying for other transportation — isn’t possible. To serve this need, the SFMTA is announcing the Essential Trip Card (ETC) – a discount program to help seniors and people with disabilities make essential trips in taxis during this crisis. 

The ETC will subsidize about two to three round trips by taxi per month for older adults (persons 65 and older) and people with disabilities. Eligible participants will pay 20% of the cost of a regular cab ride fare for essential trips.  The program uses taxis to take people on essential trips like going to the grocery store, pharmacy or another necessary medical trip during the shelter-in-place period. Customers who pay $12 will receive $60 value for taxi trips on a debit card.  

We ask riders to do their part by making only essential trips, washing their hands thoroughly or using hand sanitizer before and after taxi trips, wearing a mask or cloth face covering if possible, coughing or sneezing into a tissue or elbow and not touching their faces. We also encourage riders to clean their debit card, child seat, or any items that the driver or anyone else may help to carry or load with a sanitizing cleaner, before and after your trip. 

Who qualifies?

To qualify for the program, customers must meet at least one of these qualifications:  

    • Age 65 or older 
    • Have a disability “

And on and on…


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