Excellent transportation choices
| Single RIDE | |
|---|---|
| Regular Adult | $2.00 |
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Youth, Senior, Disabled, Medicare |
$0.75 |
| Child 4 and under | free |
A single ride fare on Muni is good for 90 minutes of travel, whether it be on a single route or a trip with multiple transfers across buses and light rail. Below are a few tips for getting the hang of riding Muni on a single fare.
For information about discount fares, see Youth/Senior/Disability Discounts.
Visitors may be interested in our 1, 3 and 7 Day Visitor Passes.
Residents may find Monthly Passes more cost-effective.
You can load cash onto your Clipper card to pay for single rides. When you tap your Clipper card to the reader as you board a 90-minute transfer will be stored to your card. You must tap your card each time you board a vehicle.
Change is not provided on bus or light rail vehicles. Stop ahead of time and pick up change along the way or load cash onto your Clipper card to avoid the hassle. Customers paying cash at Muni Metro light rail stations must purchase a Limited Use Ticket from a Ticket Vending Machine (TVM) located outside of the faregates. Cash or credit/debit cards are accepted at these machines. Tap the ticket to the faregate reader for access.
When riding the bus, the driver will hand you a fare receipt (often referred to as a "transfer"). Keep this with you at all times, regardless of whether you plan to transfer to another route or not. If the driver does not hand you a receipt, remember to ask for one. Riding Muni without proof of payment can result in receiving a citation and heavy fine, so keep your receipt! This receipt must also be shown to a station agent when transferring to light rail in a Muni Metro station for faregate access. A Limited Use Ticket purchased from a TVM electronically records the transfer time.
Always keep track of the time on your receipt or ticket to be sure it's still valid. You must complete your trip within 90 minutes. Once your transfer expires, you must pay for another single ride fare.
Late night transfers issued by drivers on surface vehicles after 8:30 pm are valid until 5:00 am. Late night transfers are not available in the Muni Metro Subway system or on fares paid with a Clipper card or Limited Use Muni Ticket. In these cases, the 90-minute transfer rule applies.
School Single-Ride Tickets are sold in a booklet of 15 for $11.25, for the convenience of schools and youth groups. The tickets are not valid for use on cable car service. There are no discounts available. They are sold at the SFMTA Customer Service Center.
Tokens are only available to non-profit/government organizations for client services. If you have tokens previously purchased they are still valid for travel. No surcharge is required.
A 50-cent round-trip discount is available for full fare adult customers when transferring from BART stations within San Francisco to Muni. This discount is only available on Clipper. A 25-cent discount will be automatically applied to your Muni fare when transferring from BART to Muni within one hour after exiting BART and another 25-cent discount on your return trip on Muni within 24 hours after exiting BART. This discount is not available on cable car or special event service.
You are eligible for two free rides on the 14L, 28, 28L and 54 Muni routes when transferring from the Daly City BART Station and paying your fare using Clipper. The first trip must be taken within 23 hours after exiting BART and the second within 24 hours after exiting BART for the free fares to apply. The free fares are stored automatically when you tap your Clipper card upon exit at the Daly City station. You must also tap your Clipper card upon boarding Muni for proof of payment.
The SFMTA provides a fifty-cent discount off the adult full fare for customers transferring to Muni from the following agencies when using a Clipper card. A fifty-cent discount off the single ride fare is also provided to Muni customers transferring to these agencies. Please visit their websites or 511 for more information on their fare rules and discounts.