"Getting outdoors in the Bay Area often means taking lots of different agencies, including small ones with different rules and different fare structures. If you live in San Francisco, you might not know how Marin Transit fares work, and if you live in Berkeley, you might not know how County Connection fares work. In the Bay Area, people have been paying for transit with their Clipper cards for years."
"One of the biggest pain points in regional transit in the Bay Area has been the lack of transfers between agencies, with each one operating as its own fiefdom. From time to time you'll get something like a 50¢ discount from a rail agency to a bus agency, but that sort of transfer was unreliable, hidden in paragraphs of descriptions below long farecharts, and for agencies you don't regularly ride, more of a fun bonus than something you take into account when planning a trip."
Clipper 2.0 launches December 10th and introduces tap-and-ride functionality that accepts any contactless debit or credit card. The tap-and-ride feature eliminates the need to buy or preload Clipper cards and removes leftover stored-value concerns. The transfer system has been entirely rethought to provide up to a $2.85 discount per transfer. Transfers between BART, Caltrain, transbay buses, ferries, and local buses are effectively free, local-bus-to-local-bus transfers are free, and transfers between longer-distance routes are significantly cheaper. The changes resolve inconsistent, hidden, and unreliable transfer discounts that previously complicated regional trip planning.
Read at Streetsblog
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