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Riverbend Transit Authority · Riverbend, Illinois

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Bus passes, fare cards and merchandise from the Riverbend Transit Authority — sold online and at the fare desk. Plan the trip, load the card, and keep the fare valid once you are on board.

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A Riverbend bus pulling away from a lit stop at dusk
Evening service — Riverbend, Illinois

Bus passes · Fare cards · Trip planning · Merchandise · Lost & found

Fares & passes

Two objects carry every rider.

A bus pass for riders who board often, a fare card for everyone else. Both are sold online and at the fare desk — and neither one counts until it has been validated.

A folded paper bus pass booklet on a dark slate surface
Sold online · at the fare desk

Bus pass

For riders who board often enough that counting single trips has stopped being interesting. Keep it flat, keep it dry, and keep it somewhere you will find it before the doors close.

A Riverbend transit fare card resting on dark felt
Load · tap · ride

Fare card

A loaded card takes the fare in one motion at the reader. Reload it at the fare desk or online before it runs down, and it will not make a scene at the front of the bus.

On validation

Three habits that make a fare count.

  1. 01

    Load the card before the trip, not on the step.

  2. 02

    Tap once at the reader as you board, and wait for the confirmation.

  3. 03

    Keep the card flat and readable — a card bent under a wallet flap reads as nothing at all.

Buy online or at the fare desk — passes, fare cards and merchandise are sold together.

Trip planning

Sort the trip before you leave.

Three things decide whether a journey works: the stop, the timetable and the fare. Get those in order and the rest of Riverbend opens up.

01 YOUR STOP 02 THE TIMETABLE 03 YOUR FARE
Riverbend route diagram — illustrative, not to scale
  1. 01

    Find your stop

    Route information is posted at every stop, and the fare desk will point you to the nearest one.

  2. 02

    Read the timetable

    Departures are posted at the stop. Note the last run of the day before you build an evening around it.

  3. 03

    Load your fare card

    A loaded, validated card is the whole plan, minus the walking. Load it before you leave.

Trip planning is a service we offer, not a favour we tolerate. Bring us a starting point and a destination and we will lay the route out end to end.

Merchandise

Objects from the case.

Photographed the way we photograph everything here: one lamp, a dark ground, the tag left on. Sold online and at the fare desk, alongside passes and fare cards.

Transit merchandise arranged on dark linen under a single warm light
Case 3 — objects from the counter
A canvas tote bag propped against a deep navy backdrop
Canvas tote — the plainest thing we sell
Lost & found

Things that arrived without their owners.

The lost and found is a drawer of objects left behind on the network — a glove, a scarf, a pair of reading glasses. Most of it is waiting.

A single knitted glove left on a dark surface beside a small paper tag
Item 004 — unidentified glove, held in the drawer
  1. 01

    Describe the item in as much detail as you can — material, colour, what was inside.

  2. 02

    We check your description against the contents of the drawer.

  3. 03

    If it matches, collect it at the lost and found desk and bring identification with you.

Open drawer · contents vary daily
Unidentified No. 11
Unidentified No. 12
Unidentified No. 13
Unidentified No. 15

A sample of the drawer. Items are logged as they arrive.

Buy a pass. Load a card. Get where you are going.

Passes, fare cards and merchandise — online or at the fare desk

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