Clipper on Cable Cars

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Rail lines: All cable car lines.

Area: Entire line.

Date: Effective Aug. 8, 2011.

Time: All hours of service.

Effective Aug. 8, cable car fare collection procedures are improved for Clipper® card customers.

SFMTA customers with a monthly Muni pass or cash value loaded onto their Clipper card can now use Clipper to pay a fare on cable cars. Upon boarding a cable car, please show your Clipper card to a cable car conductor, who will use a handheld fare collection device to validate a pass or deduct a cash fare.

Seniors, Medicare card holders and persons with disabilities riding before 7 a.m. and after 9 p.m. are advised to pay cash or use a ticket in order to pay a discount fare. Clipper cards and RTC discount ID cards do not support the cable car discount fare.

Full cable car fare information

Summary of changes

	Through Aug. 7	Effective Aug. 8
Autoload	Customers using the Autoload feature had to first tag their card after the 3rd day of the month on any Clipper card reader, e.g., on a Muni vehicle or at a metro station, prior to initially boarding the cable cars for their monthly pass to activate.	There is no need for customers using the Autoload feature to tag the Clipper card elsewhere prior to boarding a cable car for their montly pass to activate.
E-cash	Not accepted on cable cars	Accepted on cable cars. No discount fare available for seniors, Medicare card holders or persons with disabilities when paying with e-cash.

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