This morning, Senator Josh Becker introduced SB 917, the Seamless Transit Transformation Act, a new bill to create a more coordinated and integrated Bay Area transit system while improving the rider experience. This legislation a major step forward in our work to build a more seamless, accessible transit system across the nine-county Bay Area.
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Seamless Bay Area is excited to host a unique virtual conference and workshop for California transportation professionals and policymakers to glean best practices from Switzerland’s highly effective public transportation ecosystem.
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UC Berkeley Master of City Planning student Kenji Anzai analyzes how different German regions developed different forms of network managers, or verkehrsverbünde, and what lessons these regions can provide for the Bay Area.
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On Monday, December 13 at 2pm, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission convened a “listening session” to start to consider the potential for a regional funding measure for public transportation in 2024.
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If our region doesn’t act quickly to both identify a major new sustainable source of funding - and introduce governance reforms to create a seamless system - we could lose transit forever.
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This October, the Austrian government released KlimaTicket Ö, or the Austrian Climate Ticket, an annual transit pass that can be used on any transit service in the country, for the price of €1,095 per year. With the new Fare Policy Vision approved in the Bay Area, our region may be on a path to follow Austria toward a more affordable and universal regional transit pass.
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WETA’s 2021 fare and schedule changes have enabled many new riders - including lower income riders - to use the ferry, and to be able to choose a ferry when it’s the right mode for a particular trip. These changes have also had a clear impact on overall ridership.
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On Monday, November 15, the region’s Fare Integration Task Force — composed of transit agency general managers and the executive director of MTC — voted in favor of a Fare Policy Vision that includes a pilot all-agency pass for organizations starting in 2022, free transfers in 2023, and standardized regional fares as soon as 2024. This is a major step forward for the future of seamless transit and integrated fares in the Bay Area.
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Seamless Bay Area is growing and we’re hiring an intern for 4 months! Deadline for Applications: November 22, 2021.
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Last week, regional leaders at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission took a big step forward in endorsing continued progress towards more integrated fares and seamless transit in the Bay Area.
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Part Three of a three-part series on transit funding in the Bay Area imagines how a Bay Area network manager could be set up to simplify Bay Area transit.
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This second blog in our three-part series will explore the differences in funding sources and levels of funding in the Bay Area - but also how local funding sources aren’t always as ‘local’ as they appear, considering how interconnected the Bay Area region is.
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In this three-part blog series, we explain how network managers in other parts of the world manage complicated funding sources, provide an overview of how transit is funded in the Bay Area, and conclude with some thoughts about how a network manager could help reduce the funding complexity in the Bay Area while respecting local fund sources and local levels of service.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us in September to celebrate Bay Area transit and the leaders, workers, advocates, and riders who keep our region moving.
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This week and next, transit agency boards will weigh in on important steps forward to bring riders back to transit with convenient, integrated fares.
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When considered together, results of two parallel business cases being led by MTC - one on fare integration, and another on wayfinding and branding integration of the region’s 27 transit agencies - suggest dramatic ridership, economic, and environmental benefits of seamless transit fares in combination with fully unified wayfinding and branding.
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The new results of the study on regional fare integration led by MTC and transit agencies show that there are big opportunities to increase transit ridership, improve equitable access to jobs, education and other needs, and reduce emissions.
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