PRIME TIME PASS
This is a transportation program for the elderly and people with disabilities. Principally this program enhances employment options for people as it provides transportation to riders who work. Prime Time Pass picks up and drops off at places in the community not served by the MET Transit System or not on a bus route. This program gives riders around the clock transportation service, specifically, after the MET Transit System stops operation for the evening. It enables users to have schedules and plan their lives as others without disabilities do without transportation being a hindrance to independent living.
Secondly, Prime Time can provide transportation to riders with social (non-work related) obligations. It enhances the social lives of riders by enabling them to go out at night like seeing friends, going to church, going shopping, or going to school.
Finally, the program serves dialysis patients with a low-cost option to get to and from their dialysis treatments.
This program is a cooperative effort between the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Waterloo (MET) and the BHCIL and is operated by the BHCIL under contract with MET. Prime Time Pass uses accessible vehicles provided by MET.
Hours of Operation
Monday thru Saturday: 24 Hours a Day with restrictions applied. Call the Center for specific travel areas and time restrictions.
Sundays & holidays: 24 Hours a Day with no restrictions.
Who uses Prime Time Pass?
people with disabilities (Those qualified to use the para-transit system through MET.)
the elderly
people determined to be low income by Operation Threshold guidelines
How much does it cost?
Cost (in each direction)
For riders with a Prime Time Pass (PTP) card and number
Work Rides
In Waterloo / Cedar Falls & Evansdale $4.00 each way (Your job must be a paid position not a volunteer job.)
Other Cities in Local Vicinity $20.00 each way
Dialysis Patients
In Waterloo / Cedar Falls & Evansdale $3.50 each way
Other Cities in the local vicinity / Or if living in an institution $20.00 each way
Other (non-work) Rides
(Example: Volunteer positions, Shopping, Social, Church, Education, Other, Non-Dialysis Medical)
In Waterloo / Cedar Falls $10.00 each way (If living on one's own)
If living in Evansdale or in an institution $20.00 each way
Other Cities in the local vicinity $20.00 each way
$20.00 each way for a ride for all riders without a PTP card and number.
PTP Pre-paid Tickets
Work-related: You can buy a ticket worth 11 rides for $40.00
Non-Work-related: You can buy a ticket worth 4 rides for $40.00
Dialysis-related: You can buy a ticket worth 11 rides for $35.00
Extra stops: You can buy a ticket worth 10 extra stops (worth $2.00 each) for $20.00
For riders who want to make an extra stop (between their initial pick up point and final drop-off destination) before continuing on to their final drop-off destination; This 'extra stop' costs $2.00.
For a Non-Work related ride, if the principal passenger has a PTP card and number each additional passenger within the party costs $2.00 each The additional passenger needs to get on and off at the same destination as the principal passenger.
Want More Info?
Call the BHCIL
312 Jefferson Street
Waterloo, IA 50701-1322
Telephone: (319) 291-7755
(888) 291-7754
TTY: We use RELAY IOWA (1-800-735-2943)
Fax: (319) 291-7781
e-mail:
bhcil@blackhawkcenter.org
Website : www.blackhawkcenter.org