VRE Mobile

Virginia Railway Express

About this app

With the VRE Mobile ticketing app, you can buy and use tickets and passes on VRE commuter rail at anytime, anywhere directly from your smartphone. VRE Mobile also allows you to use your WMATA SmartBenefits® account to purchase tickets and passes. Just download the free app, register your debit/credit card in our secure system, and you are ready to go.

APP FEATURES:

• Buy and use tickets and passes instantly on your smartphone using a debit/credit card, WMATA SmartBenefits®.
• Store multiple tickets on your phone for future use.
• Securely register your debit/credit card(s).
• Use your approved Reduced Fare account.

Ratings and reviews

I just installed the latest version today. The FAQ, the Contact Us, and several other links come up with page not found. That this is a brand new version of the app I find that unbelievably incompetent of the programmers. The only reason I downloaded the app was to get notifications as the system is changing as of July 1st. However, I cannot find any place in the Android version of the app to set up notifications. The instructions online seem to apply to iphone. That's on VRE and not the app.

Regardless of how I enter the credit card it's always rejected. This is the credit card I use everywhere. This is the credit card I use at the VRE stations. This app won't accept new style of credit cards where the numbers are not embossed on the front. The scanning of credit cards are absolutely atrocious. Hold the credit card in the correct position. Make sure to maintain it at the exact distance so all the borders are lit up. Don't move. Don't even breathe. Imagine if you had a disability.

This new update is the worst,it just leads you to the VRE website. What's the point? These old app allowed you to see how much longer until the next closest train arrives using GPS. Now it just takes you to the VRE website where it has that useless map that you have to use two fingers to use and doesn't give you a time for the trains arrival, only allows you to follow the train, meaning you literally have to watch as the train crawls to your stop with no indication of how long till it arrives.

What's new

+ crash fixes for some older devices