It is time to check the numbers on the back of your old, trusty SmarTrip card. Metro is phasing out older cards as part of upgrades to fare gates and fare payment technology. The new fare gates, fare ...

A little while ago, a reader sent me a series of comments and questions about Metro’s SmarTrip card program. To me, these questions represented some of the nontraditional questions about this program ...

Those looking to save money on ever-climbing Metro fares are turning to the thrifty person’s mecca: Craigslist. The Washington section of the site posts offers to buy and sell SmarTrip cards or paper ...

Metro riders have paid $5 for a SmarTrip card since the transit agency introduced the option in 1996. But that’s about to change -- sort of. Starting September 1, Metro will offer a $3 discount for ...

WASHINGTON — Good news for Metro riders 65 years and older, WMATA announced it will be eliminating the $2 fee on Senior SmarTrip cards. The new policy will go into effect in the new year on January 16 ...

Metro announced yesterday it is rushing the production of tens of thousands of SmarTrip cards and will keep on selling them despite dwindling supplies, reversing a decision the transit agency made ...

Google Pay has slowly been adding support for public transit cards over the past few years, and today, another is being added to the list. Google Pay users in Washington, DC, can now add the SmarTrip ...

The days of digging around in your pockets or your bag for that SmarTrip card to swipe in to the Metrorail or Metrobus systems are officially gone — and we don't just mean for transit riders who are ...

A groundbreaking system that would allow passengers to use a single SmarTrip card to board Metrorail, Metrobus and 16 other transit systems from Fredericksburg to Ocean City has run into technical ...

Metro's plan to cut the price of SmarTrip cards in half to boost ridership may have hit a snag. Officials worry riders will scam the system, cheating Metro out of millions, The Washington Post ...