Setting Up My Wallet: Access for All

Multiple options are available to meet your unique transportation needs

Transportation Wallet: Access for All allows you to choose the wallet package that works best for you. Read below to find out what each option contains.

Transit for a Year

This option includes:

Transit: A 12-month Reduced Fare Pass for unlimited rides

This option is for:

Individuals who have Honored Citizen Hop cards for transit.
(Seniors age 65+, People on Medicare, with disabilities, or who qualify based on income.)

All Modes

This option includes:

Transit: $200 on your Hop Card

BIKETOWN Membership: BIKETOWN for All or Adaptive BIKETOWN

Prepaid Visa card: $75 for transportation services

This option is for:

Individuals

Transit for a Year

This option includes:

Transit: $225-$300 on your Hop Card

BIKETOWN Membership: BIKETOWN for All or Adaptive BIKETOWN

Prepaid Visa card: $100-$175 for transportation services

This option is for:

Households
(Multiple people at one address)

Learn about your Wallet and how to use it

Click the buttons below to get the specifics about the transportation services included with each option. You’ll also learn how to use your Transportation Wallet for each service.

Transit: Portland Streetcar and TriMet

Your Transportation Wallet benefits will be applied to a new or existing Hop Fastpass® card. Also called “Hop cards,” these refillable fare cards are used to pay for rides on TriMet, Portland Streetcar, and some other Portland-area transit services.

Option 1: TriMet Honored Citizen 1-year pass

This option is available for Access for All participants who either already have or plan to apply for TriMet’s reduced-fare Honored Citizen Hop card.

Get your Honored Citizen Hop card

Visit TriMet’s website to apply.

There are a number of ways you may qualify:

Next, get your Transportation Wallet benefits loaded onto your Honored Citizen Hop card

Scroll to the bottom of this section for instructions.

Options 2 and 3: Value to load onto TriMet Hop cards

These Transportation Wallet packages come with set amounts of transit fare that you can load onto your Hop card. This transit value included in your Wallet will depend on which option you choose (1 or 2), and your household size. (See the graphic at the top of this page.)

Get your Hop card

If you don’t have a Hop card already, no problem! We will load a new Hop card with your transit benefits and mail it to you.

Next, load your Transportation Wallet benefits onto your Hop card

Scroll to the bottom of this section for instructions.

How to load your Transportation Wallet benefits onto your Hop card

If a staff person is helping you sign up, they can help you with this step.

Or, follow these instructions:

  1. Log into your Transportation Wallet account
  2. Click on “My Hop Cards”
  3. Click on “Manage Hop Cards”
  4. Click on “Add New Hop Card”
  5. Enter your Hop card number, security code, and expiration date (refer to graphic for visual explanation →)
  6. Hit the blue “Add” button

What’s next?

Option 1: A PBOT staff person will load your 1-year pass onto your Hop card within 10 business days. We will notify you when it is ready for use.

Options 2 and 3:

  1. Go to “My Wallets”
  2. Select the TriMet benefit and click on “Proceed to Redeem”

Your Hop card will be loaded and you can start using your benefits right away.

BIKETOWN

Access for All participants may receive a BIKETOWN for All and Adaptive BIKETOWN membership with their Transportation Wallet.

BIKETOWN for All is Portland’s bike-share membership for income-qualified individuals and high school students ages 16+.

Adaptive BIKETOWN offers an unlimited number of free, 1-hour rides to anyone living with a disability or who cannot ride a traditional two-wheeled bicycle.

Option 1

BIKETOWN membership is not included with this option.

Options 2 and 3

These Transportation Wallet packages include your membership of choice (BIKETOWN for All or Adaptive BIKETOWN). Your membership will include unlimited 60-minute rides and a helmet. You will also be credited $7/mo to cover out of station parking fees, which come into effect when you park a BIKETOWN bike away from an official BIKETOWN station.

Redeem your BIKETOWN benefit

  1. Log into your Transportation Wallet account
  2. Go to “My Wallets” and click the BIKETOWN button
  3. Select the BIKETOWN for all option and click “Proceed to Redeem”
  4. You will receive a coupon code
  5. Log into your BIKETOWN account (if you don’t have one already, you’ll need to create one)
  6. Proceed to sign up for a membership
  7. When you get to the payment portion of the BIKETOWN signup process, enter the coupon code from step four (above)
Get more in-depth BIKETOWN redemption instructions

Pick up your helmet

Helmets can be collected at Adaptive BIKETOWN on the Eastbank Esplanade during normal operating hours.

Rent an Adaptive BIKETOWN bike

  1. Go to the Adaptive BIKETOWN website (see the link below) and navigate to the “reservations” page
  2. Proceed through the steps to reserve a bike
  3. A rental agent will respond within 24 hours to confirm your request or work with you to determine a mutually agreeable date/time.
  4. Pick up your bike at Kerr Bikes on the Eastbank Esplanade next to OMSI in SE Portland

Please note that you are requesting a reservation date/time, not making a guaranteed reservation.

Adaptive BIKETOWN

Prepaid Visa Card

Access for All participants who choose Wallet options 2 or 3 will be mailed a prepaid Visa card to use for transportation services including e-scooters, taxis and ride-hailing, parking, and more.

Option 1

A prepaid Visa card is not included with this option.

Options 2 and 3

The value included on your prepaid Visa card will vary depending on the option you choose and the size of your household. (See the graphics at the top of this page.)

Activate your prepaid Visa card

When you receive your prepaid Visa card in the mail, just follow the instructions in the envelope to activate it.

Please note that you will need the date of birth you used to register your Transportation Wallet to activate your card. 

Use your prepaid Visa card for e-scooters

You may add your prepaid Visa card as the payment method for any of the three e-scooter companies active in Portland: Bird, Lime, and Spin.

First, download the e-scooter app of your choice to your smartphone.

Each company has their own app that you will use to unlock e-scooters and pay for rides. Use the links below to get the apps that work with your device.

Next, add your prepaid Visa card as the payment method for each app

In-depth instructions are available in multiple languages to help with this step.

Go to e-scooter payment method setup instructions

Use your prepaid Visa card for taxis and ride-hailing

You may add your prepaid Visa card as the payment method for the Uber and Lyft apps as well as any taxi service apps you use. Not all taxi services have apps. If this is the case with your favorite taxi company, just use your Visa card to pay your driver directly.

First, download the ride-hailing app of your choice to your smartphone

Each company has their own app that you will use to hail and pay for rides. Use the links below to get the apps that work with your device’s operating system.

Taxis: Check with your preferred vendor to see if they have an app.

Next, add your prepaid Visa card as the payment method for each app

You can use your prepaid Visa card to pay for individual rides or use it to preload your Lyft and/or Uber accounts with Lyft Cash or Uber Cash.

In-depth instructions are available in multiple languages to help with this step.

Go to taxi and ride-hailing payment method setup instructions

Use your prepaid Visa card for parking

You may use your prepaid Visa card to pay for on-street parking at parking meters or via the Parking Kitty app. You may also use your card to pay for parking in SmartPark garages.

First, download the ride-hailing app of your choice to your smartphone

Parking meters: Use the instructions posted on each parking meter.

SmartPark garages: Follow the instructions on SmartPark paystations.

Parking Kitty:

Download the app to your smartphone: Apple App Store Google Play

In-depth instructions are available in multiple languages to help with this step.

Go to e-scooter payment method setup instructions