Reload Your Fare Card

The METRO Q Fare Card is being discontinued and replaced with the new RideMETRO Fare Card. You can still use your METRO Q Fare Card for a short time, but you can't add money to it after Jan. 31.

Here's what you need to do:

  • Create a RideMETRO account
  • Get a physical or virtual RideMETRO Fare Card 
  • Use up your METRO Q Fare Card balance
Create a RideMETRO account
Visit the METRO Online RideStore to get started
Create Account
Customers reloading METRO fare card at a Ticket Vending Machine (TVM).

Get Started

The METRO Q® Fare Card is being discontinued and replaced with the new RideMETRO Fare Card. You should plan to get the new card, then use up the balance on your METRO Q® Fare Card before disposing of it.

You will not be able to reload a METRO Q ® Fare Card after January 31, 2026.

METRO Q Fare Card and METRO Day Pass with a check mark alongside to indicate these are intended to represent registered cards.

Reload a Registered
Q Card or Day Pass

METRO Q Fare Card and METRO Day Pass

Reload an Unregistered
Q Card or Day Pass

RideMETRO card graphic.

Buy or Reload a
RideMETRO Card

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