Wheelchair users no longer need a valid ticket

Wheelchair users are in future entitled to travel without a valid ticket on HSL public transport. HSL wants to simplify the ticketing policy for passengers in wheelchair.

Until now, wheelchair users have been allowed to travel without a valid ticket only provided they have a Companion Pass. In addition, on Vantaa internal services, wheelchair users have been entitled to travel without a valid ticket.

HSL Executive Board decided on the change in June 2015 when discussing discount and free tickets and right to travel without a valid ticket in the new Helsinki region zone model. The new zone model will be introduced at the earliest in 2017. However, the change to the ticketing policy for wheelchair users will take effect immediately because it does not require changes to the Travel Card system.