{"id":11662,"date":"2025-05-09T12:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/transportation\/transportation\/mcts\/transit-plus\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:40:29","slug":"transit-plus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/transportation\/transportation\/mcts\/transit-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"content_block\" id=\"custom_post_widget-11659\">\n<p>Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) also offers a paratransit service, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ridemcts.com\/accessibility\/transit-plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Transit Plus<\/a>, for riders with disabilities. UWM faculty\/staff and students with <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/transportation\/transportation\/mcts\/\">bus passes <\/a>are eligible to use this service, provided they meet the following criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A person with a disability who cannot independently board, ride, or get off a bus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A person whose disability-related condition or environmental barrier makes it impossible to independently travel to or from a fixed route bus stop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The fare established by the County for use of this paratransit service will be paid by the County for any Transit Plus trip taken by a student also registered for the <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/transportation\/transportation\/mcts\/upass\/\">U-PASS program<\/a>. Any trip costing up to the County\u2019s maximum reimbursable amount plus the current Transit Plus fare co-pay will be free to eligible University students. Any fee above this combined total amount will continue to be paid by the user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To obtain the fare waiver, eligible students will be certified by the Milwaukee County Transit Plus Program as eligible each semester. Students will also be required to show the transportation service provider their U-PASS fare media, a validated University student identification card, and a valid Milwaukee County Transit Plus Program identification card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rides must be requested not less than one day before and not more than two weeks in advance of the date of the ride. Please see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ridemcts.com\/accessibility\/transit-plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MCTS\u2019s website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1687,"featured_media":0,"parent":3567,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-11662","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Transit Plus - UWM Transportation Services<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/transportation\/transportation\/mcts\/transit-plus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Transit Plus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/transportation\/transportation\/mcts\/transit-plus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UWM Transportation Services\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-16T19:40:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/transportation\/transportation\/mcts\/transit-plus\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/transportation\/transportation\/mcts\/transit-plus\/\",\"name\":\"Transit Plus - 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