Senior Ticket price slightly goes up
Published 19 October 2012
Last modified 3 June 2019
With the 1st of January of the next year, all ZTM tickets prices are going to change, including the Senior Ticket which is going to cost 10 Polish zloty more.
When in August 2011, the first stage of the tickets tariff reform entered into force, all tickets prices excluding Senior Ticket changed. In the second stage, with the 1st of January 2013, its price is also going to rise. It is going to cost PLN 50 (which is PLN 4.17 monthly). Still, the purchase of the ticket will be value-priced. The Senior Ticket, which can be used by passengers between 65 and 70 years of age (passengers who turned 70 are eligible for free rides), remains valid for 365 days from the moment of validation and entitles to unlimited number of rides using the entire public transport organized by ZTM (in both 1st and 2nd zone), and also to use Warsaw Rail and Warsaw Suburb Rail (as part of Integrated Ticket ZTM-KM-WKD).
It is worth to code and activate such ticket before the 1st of January 2013. Then it will be valid for entire 365 days with the saving of PLN 10. Senior Ticket bought according to the old tariff (and activated before the 1st of January 2013) can be used only until the 30th of December 2013.
It is also worth mentioning that Warsaw Tariff Regulations make using public transport easier not only to the senior group. Tariff Regulations take under protection the disabled, the unemployed, passengers in the bad financial situation and large families.
One of these groups are the disabled. The following are entitled to free rides: people permanently incapable of work and living independently (including their caregivers), the seriously disabled, the blind and mentally impaired. The entitlement applies to children and the youth disability- or handicap-stricken, however, before turning 26 years of age. The following are entitled to discount rides: the moderately disabled (after turning 26 years of age) and also people permanently incapable of work (also after turning 26 years of age).
Another groups are pensioners and seniors. Pensioners before turning 26 can travel with discounted tickets.
The third group are the unemployed and people in a difficult financial situation. The people supported by Ośrodek Pomocy Społecznej (Social Assistance Center), but only those who signed social contracts describing rules on which cooperation with OPS is based are entitled to free-of-charge rides by Warsaw public transport. The unemployed participating in “Szansa na pracę” (“Chance for work”) program and the unemployed not entitled to claim unemployment benefit are also allowed to travel for free (the entitlement is valid only on the day of obligatory visit to the office).
The next group are children. Before turning 20, children from large families which consist of four or more children, can also travel without paying transport fares. The right to travel free of charge also applies to children from family-type children’s homes and foster families before turning 20 years of age.
On the 23rd of October, we are going to explain, among other things, why tickets prices valid in the 2nd zone are going to rise more than the prices of those valid only in the 1st zone.
