Youth Ride Free

All WCSD students may now ride RTC buses for free! The Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) Youth Pass program provides free, year-round public transportation to WCSD students.

Students may use their Youth Passes to travel to work, school, free summer meal programs, libraries, and events throughout the area. Anywhere RTC serves throughout the community are places students can access. They can enroll by providing information from their WCSD student ID and will be able to ride any RTC bus for free within 24 hours after enrolling, using their smart phone or paper passes, which can be provided upon request.

“We are grateful for this partnership with the Regional Transportation Commission, and excited to offer this free service to our students across the district,” said WCSD Superintendent Joe Ernst. “Thanks to this new program, they will have the ability to ride RTC buses to school, work, museums, theaters, libraries, and recreational facilities beginning this summer and continuing through the upcoming school year. We hope this will help reduce absenteeism while offering easy access to events and amenities in the community our students may never have been able to explore before, and at no cost to them or their families.”

Students who are age 6 and younger must ride with a fare-paying adult, and RTC buses are not supervised like school buses, so students must know where and when to get on and off the bus. For more information and to enroll in the program, please visit www.washoeschools.net/youthridefree.