Can i use clipper on caltrain

To pay the train fare with a Clipper card, you need to tag your card on a reader located at the station before boarding and after exiting the train. All riders need to do this on every trip except those with monthly pass, which they only need to tag on and off on their first ride of the month.

Your card needs a minimum cash value of 1. The one way fare on Clipper is 25 cents lower than the cash fare. Even if plan to ride a few times a month, it would worth the hassle to get the Clipper card.

To get a monthly parking permit, first buy a monthly pass on your Clipper card, then go to a ticket vending machine two days later to buy a parking permit. The machine will ask you to enter the serial number of your Clipper card to verify. The following tips will help you avoid getting into trouble:. Clipper in concept should ease payment beyond the standard paper tickets. However Clipper was delayed for years it was first called Translink when it began testing in and is full of gotchas especially for Caltrain.

Difficulty of getting Clipper, particularly among the senior, immigrant, and low income population, discourages transit ridership and even decrease school attendance for the youth. For more information, visit www. How does Clipper know what fare to deduct? A customer who qualifies for one of the discount categories youth, senior, disabled must apply for the appropriate Clipper card. When they travel using cash, the onboard Card Interface Device recognizes the type of card and deducts the appropriate cash value.

I have a Youth Clipper card, what happens when I turn 19? On your 19 th birthday, your Youth Clipper card will automatically change to an Adult Clipper card. This means youth discounts will no longer be granted and adult fares will be required. Note: If you have a Youth Monthly Pass on your card, it will be cancelled. This will happen even if it is the beginning or middle of the month. If you have cash value on your card, the Clipper system will automatically start deducting adult fare.

If your card is set up for autoload and your 19 th birthday is coming up, follow these steps: 1 Disable Autoload before the new pass is loaded. This will prevent a product from being loaded that you will not be able to fully use.

Regardless of whether you use cash or a Monthly Pass, you must tag your card to a card reader every time you board. Your tag is your proof of payment. I have a Local Pass, but need to take an Express route.

To assists passengers with visual impairments, Caltrain has introduced new tone locators to Clipper card machine readers. The readers will emit a beeping sound every 15 seconds, which can alert passengers with visual impairments to where they can tag their Clipper card. The locator noise produced by the Clipper card readers will have a lower decibel level and tone than the sounds that indicate whether a person has tagged on or off at the card-reading machines.

What are the rules on tagging a Monthly Pass? You must tag on and off on the first day of use for the month of the pass. Monthly passes must be tagged by the 15 th of the month, including for Autoload customers. You must tag on and off within your zone combination purchased. If you loaded your card at a Clipper retailer such as Whole Foods or Anchor Drugs Pharmacy or a Clipper Add-Value Machine then you don't need to tag the pass was loaded when the card physically interacted with the Clipper terminal.

You need to wait to tag on and off for the month when the pass is valid unless purchased through a retail vendor or Add-value Machine. After the initial tags to load my Monthly Pass, should I continue to tag?

No, in fact you shouldn't tag your card unless you're traveling outside the zones on the pass and choose not to buy a paper Zone Upgrade. What if I do tag on with my Monthly Pass anyway? If you do tag on and off within your zone combination, or zone pair, the maximum fare will be deducted and then refunded, since Clipper will recognize that you have a Monthly Pass. But if you forget to tag off, or if you take a longer ride than is provided by your zone pairs, you will be charged the maximum fare from your tag origin.

Tag-off must be completed within four hours of the initial tag. I accidentally tagged my card twice. Was I charged twice? If the second tag was done at the same station within 15 minutes of the first tag, the second tag cancelled your ride. A message will be displayed on the screen that your initial tag was refunded. If you want to ride the train, you will need to tag on again.

If your second tag was done after 15 minutes, you will be charged the maximum one-way fare. You must have at least that much on your card when riding Caltrain. Where you bought your pass or added value can make a difference in how soon you can access them.