Tag: fare

I always thought I could avoid it, but when the SF Muni cops got on my bus one cold early morning, I knew my luck had run out. Too tired to care, I hadn’t tapped my card or activated a digital ticket. In the back of the bus, I panicked, watching them efficiently make their way through every ad...

My Clipper Card—well the Google Pay version of my Clipper Card—scanned fine, but the fare gate wouldn’t open. This has happened to me before, and OF COURSE, it would happen again today in the midst of holiday prep. Frustrated, my heart racing, I jumped the gate like a novice hurdle...

In my previous piece, I delved into Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) ridership patterns from 1998 to Aug 2023, scrutinizing the disparities between weekday and weekend usage, identifying the most frequented stations both before and after the pandemic, and evaluating how different counties recovered pos...

How did you fare in 2023? The New Year is just three weeks away and, with it, many of us are looking back at our lives and looking forward to how we want to spend the rest of our days. Today, we’re featuring four stories that help us evaluate what we’re doing and give us ideas about h...

This program has been extremely popular, with rider surveys ranking “keeping the fare free” as the most valued investment, eking out “better frequencies” and “more service”. Unfortunately, word on the street is that the city council is considering terminating the ...