Legislation Promises Transit Integration for Bay Area
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Might Bay Area transit finally start to make sense?
Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Clipper
Bay Area Transit Task Force Approves Pilot Cross-Agency Transit Passes – and Free Transfers
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It's taken years of advocacy work, and isn't done yet. But huge progress is being made on making transit fares make sense to riders.
Editorial: Ferry Ride Highlights FUBAR Fares
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The Bay Area's fare structure--or lack of one--is an unmitigated disaster that has to be fixed now
Call to Action: Sign Petition to Put the Rider First
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Seamless Bay Area launches drive to start Bay Area towards rational, integrated fares
Transit Agencies Need to Get Out of the Fare Collection Business
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From nine to nearly noon today, at BART headquarters in Oakland, the agency’s Board of Directors and staff had an impassioned discussion about raising fares and parking fees to close projected budget deficits. “Across the country, ridership is down, from four to five percent for rail, and ten percent for buses,” explained Grace Crunican, BART’s General […]
Clipper Update and the Potential to Rationalize Fares
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Yesterday evening, at the San Francisco Transit Rider’s new digs on Folsom Street in downtown, Sara Barz of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and Arielle Fleisher, with the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), gave presentations about the move to replace the Clipper fare-collection system with a new generation of technology […]