Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
You're lucky it works like that. Here, you have to have the official senior's card. I don't think the machine will accept a reduced fare without that card.
Our bus drivers can override the fare box. A lot of our seniors just never caught onto the program. So the bus drivers are given some leeway for using their own judgment. Also children 11 y.o. and younger when traveling with an adult go for free.
As soon as I turned 55, I applied and was instantly approved with my card in hand to use on the way home. But of course I hate my picture. But I am stuck with it. Maybe they will take a new picture for me when I go in. Hopefully my picture is not still in the system.
I have my State ID and love the pic on that one. Too bad they can't use that one. That ID never expires. The new ones do. I will never have to get a new State one. Sometimes you get to hit the Lucky Button.