Edmonton Light Rail Transit - LRT Fares

LRT Fares

The cash fare for passengers using Edmonton Transit System buses and the LRT, effective February 1, 2012, is $3.00 for adults, seniors and youth. Children under age five ride free when accompanied by a fare-paying adult.

Passengers can purchase books of transit tickets, day passes, and monthly transit passes. Seniors can also purchase an annual transit pass.

Passengers paying a cash fare at a fare machine at an LRT station are issued a transit ticket, which is validated as an LRT ticket after being time-stamped. This ticket is valid both as proof of payment and as a transfer. Transfers allow the passenger to transfer from the LRT to a bus, from a bus to the LRT and between buses, and is valid for 90 minutes from the time it was stamped. Passengers paying a cash fare on a bus can obtain a transfer at the time the fare is paid. Transfers also serve as proof of payment.

Passengers in an LRT proof of payment area must present proof of payment upon request by an ETS officer. Proof of payment includes LRT tickets, transfers, validated transit tickets and transit passes. Failure to provide proof of payment can result in a fine. Proof of payment areas include all LRT trains and most LRT station platforms. (At Health Sciences/Jubilee, McKernan/Belgravia, and South Campus stations, the fare machines are located on the station platform so it is possible to be on the platform without a proof of payment.)

In 2007, the Edmonton Transit System, the University of Alberta, and Grant MacEwan University (Grant MacEwan College at the time) partnered to provide students with a universal transit pass (U-Pass), which is valid on the LRT and all ETS buses as well as on Strathcona County and St. Albert Transit Systems. NAIT students voted to join the program in 2010. The U-Pass allows unlimited LRT and bus use to valid pass holders, and is only available during the months of September to April.