The Seamless Bay Area blog is usually chock full of content that’s exclusively about transit. But this month (Transit Month!) we’re making an exception, and venturing into the natural world to highlight the fact that transit shouldn’t “just” be your commuting tool, or the connection to the services you need and the people you care about. Transit has the potential to connect us all to the incredible vistas and experiences of the Bay Area’s wild places, and the fascinating natural systems behind them.
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Seamless Bay Area’s Policy Director will be among eleven Bay Area public transportation leaders who will travel to Switzerland next week to study how the country organizes, coordinates, and funds its world-renowned seamless public transit system.
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As we look to an exciting remainder of 2021 and even bigger things to come in 2022, we want to take a moment to pause and reflect on what we all got done together in 2020. Thanks to our dedicated board and staff members, committed and engaged volunteers, and amazingly generous donors, we continued to make progress in our fight for transformative change for transit in the Bay Area.
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At the beginning of the new year, we wanted to provide a quick update about Seamless Bay Area’s structure and name, as well as a guide to the best ways to support our charitable and educational work and our political advocacy and lobbying activities.
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Read Ben Keller’s thoughtful take on what it’s like to get up at 4 in the morning and ride Bay Area transit all day.
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Write to the MTC Commissioners searching for the next MTC Executive Director - let them know how important great regional leadership is to you.
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The MTC is looking for new leadership, and we think we can do so much better: in a new blog post, we profile some regional transportation superstars for inspire and excite.
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In part 1, we learned how and why The ATL, metro Atlanta’s new regional transit agency, might be beneficial to that community. But will ideas that worked in Atlanta also work here in the Bay Area? We look into the key elements of The ATL, and their potential value to solving our own regional transit challenges.
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Support the MTC’s Means-Based Fare Program, an important step on the long road to regional fare integration. Learn why this is important and how you can take action.
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The ATL is the newest regional transit governance agency in the U.S., promising metro Atlanta improvements to transit service after decades of neglect. What can we learn about how The ATL came to be, what it offers the people of metro Atlanta, and where it might fall short?
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