A two-year pilot project launched this week that will examine the viability of a transit pass that is compatible with every public transit agency in the nine-county Bay Area.
Clipper card vending machines at the Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre BART station at 1365 Treat Boulevard in Walnut Creek, Calif. on March 5, 2021. A two-year pilot project launched this week that will examine the viability of a transit pass that is compatible with everyThe project will make Clipper BayPass available to some 50,000 college students and affordable housing residents in the Bay Area.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission -- the agency overseeing transportation planning, financing and coordination in the Bay Area -- and two dozen transit agencies across the region launched the project in an effort to make public transit easier and more efficient to use. The pilot is one of several efforts by the MTC and transit agencies across the region to both bring back riders in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and make public transit more seamless to use, particularly when transferring across multiple transit agencies.
The four schools and MidPen Housing were chosen for the BayPass pilot in part because they each already offer a transit pass that reduces or eliminates fare costs for one or multiple public transit systems.official said in May, most of which will go toward reimbursing transit agencies for the fare revenue that will be waived for those with BayPass.
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