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Overview
- The transport department confirmed that cash payments will stop on all city buses on May 30, a rule already in place on the BRT and light rail.
- Transfers between buses will only count when paid with the black Jaé card or the Jaé app, while visitors can use a green single-ride card or the app, and Riocard remains valid for intermunicipal links.
- To widen access, officials said newsstands across the city will sell and top up Jaé cards, bringing the network to about 2,000 points of sale and recharge.
- A pilot on line 634 between Ilha do Governador and Tijuca has already gone cashless, and riders who only had cash reported being unable to board.
- At a city council hearing, officials said about 8% of trips still use cash—roughly 220,000 a day—and said the cash ban will later extend to vans and other complementary transport with no set date.