ALBUQUERQUE- The City of Albuquerque and ABQ Ride are pleased to announce the debut of 1, 2, or 3-day passes available for purchase on your bus. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Stimulus money was used to update the fare boxes and create a way for all ABQ Ride buses to produce the new pass options.  The date for the updated systems to be showcased on our buses will be December 1, 2009.

The multiple day pass option is easy to use: Passengers simply get on the bus and deposit the correct change into the fare box; the cost is two dollars per day. The pass will print and then the passenger boards their bus. Both the two and three day passes will be issued for two or three consecutive days.  Each time the rider boards another bus they will swipe their pass at the fare box. 

This project was allotted about 1.3 million dollars, of stimulus monies, to cover the expenses associated with purchasing and installing the new fareboxes, as well as the cost of updates for older fareboxes.