An offer from your municipality
It is your municipality that decides whether to offer a senior ticket and from what age (65, 70 or 75 years). The municipality pays for your travel with the senior ticket.
Ordering
The senior ticket can usually be ordered up to three months before you meet the municipality's age requirement, but you cannot start travelling with it until you have reached the age requirement. When a municipality's senior offer changes and you are covered by the new terms, you can order once you have received postal information from Västtrafik. This is sent out a few weeks before the new terms apply.
If you are registered in a municipality that offers a senior ticket, you will receive order information a few weeks before you meet the municipality's age requirements.
Validity
The validity of the senior ticket varies between the municipalities. Select your municipality from the list to see the validity of your ticket.
Borås
Age: From 65 years
Area: Zone C
Validity: Off-peak hours: weekdays 08.30-15.00 and 18.00-06.00 and around the clock on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. If you board the vehicle on a weekday before 06:00 or before 15:00, you can continue the journey in the same vehicle, but if you make a change after these times, you need to buy a ticket.
Lines: All Västtrafik's lines, Flex lines and Commuter traffic. On trains, the senior ticket is valid for travel on Västtåg and Vy trains.
The senior ticket is not valid for travel with Flextrafik, Koster boats, special transport services or other traffic than what is stated above (it is not valid on SJ trains, for example).
How to use your ticket on board
Travelling using your senior ticket
Hold your Senior citizen card against the card reader when you board the vehicle. Done!
Travelling outside the zone
If you want to travel outside the zone, you can buy a ticket in the Västtrafik To Go app. You can buy the additional ticket before entering the next zone, at the latest.
You can also load money (pay-as-you-go) onto your senior citizen card at our sales outlets. With pay-as-you-go, you can make an extended trip and only pay for the part of the trip that goes outside the zone in which your senior ticket is valid.
Extended trip with pay-as-you-go
- Press the "T" button (tilläggsresa) on the card reader.
- Hold your card against the card reader. A beep sounds.
- Hold the card against the card reader again when you leave the vehicle, without pressing any button. The card reader detects how far you have traveled outside the zone.
Repeat step 1 to 3 whenever you change vehicles.
To bring along on the trip
The senior ticket is personal and at a ticket inspection you must be able to show identification. If you travel with vehicles that do not have Västtrafik's card reader, you need to bring a certificate of validity. You can get this at our sales outlets and on board most of our vehicles.