Several options. Senior Access, formerly Drive a Senior, provides free volunteer-driver rides. The City of Austin Parks and Recreation Senior Transportation Program serves residents 60 and older inside city limits. CapMetro Access offers ADA paratransit, and CapMetro gives a half-price Reduced Fare ID at 65.
How Austin families actually use this
Several options run in parallel, which is why this is confusing. Senior Access, formerly Drive a Senior, provides free volunteer-driver rides. The City of Austin Parks and Recreation senior transportation program serves residents 60 and older inside city limits and has been running for more than thirty years.
On the transit side, CapMetro Access provides ADA paratransit for qualifying riders within three quarters of a mile of a fixed route, and requires an eligibility determination in advance. A CapMetro Reduced Fare ID halves fares at 65.
Apply for paratransit before you need it. Eligibility determination takes time, and the moment you need a ride to dialysis is not the moment to start.
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