Reflections from interviews with essential travelers during the pandemic and opportunities for transformational change
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The County Connection Board and General Manager responded to transit rider feedback with a positive and balanced approach, making it clear that they agreed with riders’ goals for seamlessly integrated transit and wanted to support solutions that achieved the goals while protecting local transit service.
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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Implementing a rider-focused integrated fare system is not possible without fundamental changes to Bay Area’s transit governance and funding structures. It requires establishing a central regional authority - a “Network Manager” - with the ability to set the region’s fare policy, and collect and distribute fare revenue fairly to agencies.
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Implementing Seamless Bay Area’s Integrated Fare Vision - or something like it - will require transformative changes to the way transit is funded and managed in our region. Fortunately, there are regional initiatives in the works that have the potential to advance change. With sustained public advocacy, major reforms are possible.
Last week, the BART Board of Directors became the first Bay Area transit agency to endorse the Seamless Transit Principles. BART joins a growing coalition of municipalities, non-profit and business supporters committed to building a more integrated, efficient, and rider-friendly transit system in the Bay Area.
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In response to the unprecedented impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on public transportation ridership and operations, Seamless Bay Area collaborated with AECOM to envision how transit services could adapt.
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Earlier this year, our partners at East Bay for Everyone and YIMBY Action sent out a questionnaire to candidates running for Bay Area transit board seats in 2020. We’ve compiled excerpts from their responses that illuminate their positions on seamless transit, transit prioritization and safety, transit-oriented development, and more.
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Today, Seamless Bay Area released a map of our Integrated Transit Fare Vision — a fully unified system of transit fares that would enable riders to travel seamlessly across the nine-county Bay Area with a single transit fare and free transfers.
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More than three dozen riders, transit agency staff, and advocates from across the Bay Area convened in an evening forum on October 15 to discuss the experience of riding transit in the COVID-19 era.
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A new report released today by Seamless Bay Area and the Voices for Public Transportation coalition shows how restoring and increasing transit service levels across the Bay Area will play a critical role in bringing back transit ridership after the pandemic lifts.
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Recent MTC polling and outreach finds that Bay Area residents strongly support efforts to create a seamlessly integrated public transportation network.
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MTC recently launched an 18-month pilot for a means-based fare discount program called Clipper START. The program launched with only four transit agencies offering discounts: BART, Muni, Caltrain, and Golden Gate Transit. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, MTC is now opening up the program to other interested transit agencies.
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New research on world class transit systems suggest that a “network manager” entity is a consistent feature of high-ridership systems around the world, yet can be set up in many ways.
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Seamless Bay Area is proud to join a growing coalition of Bay Area elected officials, businesses, community leaders and advocates in endorsing Measure RR and advocating for its passage in November.
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Transit riders, advocates, and leaders from across the Bay Area convened in a lunchtime forum on July 9 to voice their thoughts on the safety of public transit amid the uncertainties of the coronavirus pandemic.
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