The City of Spruce Grove and its regional partners—Edmonton, Beaumont, Fort Saskatchewan, Leduc, St. Albert and Strathcona County—are excited to welcome more riders to Arc, the region’s electronic fare payment system.

The youth and student fare groups join U-Pass and Standard Adult riders who have been using Arc since August 2021 and November 2022, respectively.

While youth and student riders can start using Arc on September 25, riders who already have a September monthly transit pass are encouraged to wait to start tapping on and off the system until October 1 to receive the full benefit of the monthly fare cap. The monthly fare caps are the same price as existing monthly transit passes. Once riders reach the monthly fare cap, they can ride transit for free for the rest of that month.

Arc cards can be purchased at the Border Paving Athletic Centre and other retailers within Spruce Grove.

Arc allows riders to pay for transit when and how they use it. With Arc, riders can:

• Conveniently tap on and off buses and LRT without having to carry exact change or paper tickets and passes.
• Sign up, check their balance and add money to their Arc accounts anytime, anywhere, including online, by phone or on site at transit centres.
• Load as little as $4—or as much as they need— to their Arc accounts.
• Load money on their accounts using credit, debit or cash.
• Avoid paying upfront for a monthly pass while benefiting from monthly price caps.