Add a Zoom Pass to your back-to-school list and get discounted travel in Rotherham and South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority is reminding students, parents and guardians to get their applications in this summer for Zoom passes for 2024/25.

Pass holders can use their card to buy a range of discounted daily, weekly and 28-day tickets from bus and tram operators, including prepaid tickets offering unlimited travel across South Yorkshire.

With a Zoom Under 16 or Zoom 16-18 pass, people can travel for a discounted single journey fare of £1 on bus and tram, and half fare on Northern trains in South Yorkshire.

For anyone aged 18 to 21 years old, a Zoom Beyond pass can be used as proof of eligibility to access discounted travel on First, TM Travel and Stagecoach bus services, as well as only paying £2 on South Yorkshire Supertram and a 15% discount on a range of TravelMaster tickets.

Django Perks, a high school student in Sheffield, said: “Having a Zoom card means I can turn up and go anywhere in South Yorkshire, for study, work, or just to see friends and family. Put it with a weekly ticket and it knocks my bus fare down to half of what it would be!”

How to get your card

Like Django, you can apply for a pass is online by creating a MyTSY account at travelsouthyorkshire.com/en-gb/ticketsandpasses/zoom. 

Anyone unable to apply online should call Traveline on 0800 952 0002, between 7am and 7pm Monday to Friday or 8am and 7pm Saturday and Sunday, and we can explain how best to apply.

Oliver Coppard, South Yorkshire’s Mayor, said: “There is talent and opportunity right across our region, but it is only by connecting the two that we will unlock South Yorkshire's full potential.

“With the Zoom Pass we can help to connect our young people with opportunities that will help them stay near and go far, while also saving families hundreds of pounds every year.  That’s why it’s so important that everyone eligible gets their Zoom pass in time for the start of the new academic year.

“Zoom and Zoom Beyond help young people make the most of our current public transport network, but I’m determined to go further.

“I refuse to accept a situation where people living across South Yorkshire aren’t able to access opportunities in South Yorkshire. Later this year, I’ll be setting out further detail on how we’re creating an integrated transport system that really does connect our communities as well as more on our ambitious plans to pilot free public transport for young people.”

“Zoom and Zoom Beyond help young people make the most of public transport, but I’m always looking at ways in which we can go further and do more,“ continued Mayor Coppard.

“I will continue to work with the Department for Transport and others to deliver a better deal for bus passengers and deliver my manifesto promise to develop a fares policy for young people to create true freedom and choice for South Yorkshire’s next generation.

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