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  1. My growing retired-transit-card collection

    A year ago, this week’s work trip to the Bay Area would have meant breaking out the oldest computer that I was still using with any regularity at the time: the Clipper card that I bought in June of 2012 to pay for fares on BART, Muni and other transit agencies around San Francisco.

    But this year, I could leave that NFC-enabled smart card in the little holder in which I store my other stored-value transit cards and instead tap my phone to pay with my business credit card for each ride–first a SamTrans bus from SFO to Millbrae, then Caltrain to San Jose for TechEx North America, then two days of commuting up and down the peninsula for Google I/O.

    BART started accepting contactless payments last August, and now all the Bay Area transit services that accept Clipper cards also let you tap to pay with a phone, a smartwatch or a credit or debit card with an NFC chip.

    Whether you call it “tap to pay,” “open payments” or “open loop,” letting people pay for a fare as if it were any other on-the-go purchase is a great advance for transit. Especially for out-of-towners, as I realized years ago when visiting Chicago and Portland and appreciating the early lead of their transit services in this key bit of CX.

    A growing array of agencies across the U.S. have finally wised up to this after years of requiring people to buy proprietary stored-value cards, install agency-specific apps or make a throwback cash payment: Metro, NYC’s MTA, the T in Boston, NJ Transit buses and light rail, SEPTA around Philadelphia, MARTA in Atlanta, and the Seattle region’s Sound Transit, among many others.

    L.A.’s Metro has been a high-profile laggard–a personally inconvenient one since my TAP card expired last year. But this week users have begun reporting success on Reddit and in Bluesky posts with using their phones and credit cards to cover train and bus fares now that Metro there seems to have begun a soft launch of what it calls “TAP Plus.”

    As I’ve spent down the balance on transit cards I no longer need, the ones that I still need to use are now most entirely confined to agencies in other countries. Some examples: I love Barcelona’s Metro but I don’t love how it doesn’t support tap to pay; Doha’s driverless metro is a technological marvel but also requires its own colorful card; Vancouver’s Compass Card offers enough of a discount over tap-to-pay rates (because that city didn’t follow Toronto’s fare-neutral example) that I picked up one for last year’s Web Summit conference there and used it again for this year’s event.

    But there is one awkward exception right in my neighborhood: Arlington Transit, which continues to require the SmarTrip card that WMATA rolled out in 1999. So while I can pay for Metro like it’s the 21st century, I still have to keep my well-worn SmarTrip card handy in case an ART bus rolls up before a Metro bus does.

    #ApplePay #ArlingtonTransit #ARTBus #BART #Caltrain #CharlieCard #ClipperCard #GoogleWallet #MBTA #Metro #NFCPayments #openLoop #openPayments #SmarTrip #tapToPay #TheT #transit #transitApps #transitCards
  2. My growing retired-transit-card collection

    A year ago, this week’s work trip to the Bay Area would have meant breaking out the oldest computer that I was still using with any regularity at the time: the Clipper card that I bought in June of 2012 to pay for fares on BART, Muni and other transit agencies around San Francisco.

    But this year, I could leave that NFC-enabled smart card in the little holder in which I store my other stored-value transit cards and instead tap my phone to pay with my business credit card for each ride–first a SamTrans bus from SFO to Millbrae, then Caltrain to San Jose for TechEx North America, then two days of commuting up and down the peninsula for Google I/O.

    BART started accepting contactless payments last August, and now all the Bay Area transit services that accept Clipper cards also let you tap to pay with a phone, a smartwatch or a credit or debit card with an NFC chip.

    Whether you call it “tap to pay,” “open payments” or “open loop,” letting people pay for a fare as if it were any other on-the-go purchase is a great advance for transit. Especially for out-of-towners, as I realized years ago when visiting Chicago and Portland and appreciating the early lead of their transit services in this key bit of CX.

    A growing array of agencies across the U.S. have finally wised up to this after years of requiring people to buy proprietary stored-value cards, install agency-specific apps or make a throwback cash payment: Metro, NYC’s MTA, the T in Boston, NJ Transit buses and light rail, SEPTA around Philadelphia, MARTA in Atlanta, and the Seattle region’s Sound Transit, among many others.

    L.A.’s Metro has been a high-profile laggard–a personally inconvenient one since my TAP card expired last year. But this week users have begun reporting success on Reddit and in Bluesky posts with using their phones and credit cards to cover train and bus fares now that Metro there seems to have begun a soft launch of what it calls “TAP Plus.”

    As I’ve spent down the balance on transit cards I no longer need, the ones that I still need to use are now most entirely confined to agencies in other countries. Some examples: I love Barcelona’s Metro but I don’t love how it doesn’t support tap to pay; Doha’s driverless metro is a technological marvel but also requires its own colorful card; Vancouver’s Compass Card offers enough of a discount over tap-to-pay rates (because that city didn’t follow Toronto’s fare-neutral example) that I picked up one for last year’s Web Summit conference there and used it again for this year’s event.

    But there is one awkward exception right in my neighborhood: Arlington Transit, which continues to require the SmarTrip card that WMATA rolled out in 1999. So while I can pay for Metro like it’s the 21st century, I still have to keep my well-worn SmarTrip card handy in case an ART bus rolls up before a Metro bus does.

    #ApplePay #ArlingtonTransit #ARTBus #BART #Caltrain #CharlieCard #ClipperCard #GoogleWallet #MBTA #Metro #NFCPayments #openLoop #openPayments #SmarTrip #tapToPay #TheT #transit #transitApps #transitCards
  3. My growing retired-transit-card collection

    A year ago, this week’s work trip to the Bay Area would have meant breaking out the oldest computer that I was still using with any regularity at the time: the Clipper card that I bought in June of 2012 to pay for fares on BART, Muni and other transit agencies around San Francisco.

    But this year, I could leave that NFC-enabled smart card in the little holder in which I store my other stored-value transit cards and instead tap my phone to pay with my business credit card for each ride–first a SamTrans bus from SFO to Millbrae, then Caltrain to San Jose for TechEx North America, then two days of commuting up and down the peninsula for Google I/O.

    BART started accepting contactless payments last August, and now all the Bay Area transit services that accept Clipper cards also let you tap to pay with a phone, a smartwatch or a credit or debit card with an NFC chip.

    Whether you call it “tap to pay,” “open payments” or “open loop,” letting people pay for a fare as if it were any other on-the-go purchase is a great advance for transit. Especially for out-of-towners, as I realized years ago when visiting Chicago and Portland and appreciating the early lead of their transit services in this key bit of CX.

    A growing array of agencies across the U.S. have finally wised up to this after years of requiring people to buy proprietary stored-value cards, install agency-specific apps or make a throwback cash payment: Metro, NYC’s MTA, the T in Boston, NJ Transit buses and light rail, SEPTA around Philadelphia, MARTA in Atlanta, and the Seattle region’s Sound Transit, among many others.

    L.A.’s Metro has been a high-profile laggard–a personally inconvenient one since my TAP card expired last year. But this week users have begun reporting success on Reddit and in Bluesky posts with using their phones and credit cards to cover train and bus fares now that Metro there seems to have begun a soft launch of what it calls “TAP Plus.”

    As I’ve spent down the balance on transit cards I no longer need, the ones that I still need to use are now most entirely confined to agencies in other countries. Some examples: I love Barcelona’s Metro but I don’t love how it doesn’t support tap to pay; Doha’s driverless metro is a technological marvel but also requires its own colorful card; Vancouver’s Compass Card offers enough of a discount over tap-to-pay rates (because that city didn’t follow Toronto’s fare-neutral example) that I picked up one for last year’s Web Summit conference there and used it again for this year’s event.

    But there is one awkward exception right in my neighborhood: Arlington Transit, which continues to require the SmarTrip card that WMATA rolled out in 1999. So while I can pay for Metro like it’s the 21st century, I still have to keep my well-worn SmarTrip card handy in case an ART bus rolls up before a Metro bus does.

    #ApplePay #ArlingtonTransit #ARTBus #BART #Caltrain #CharlieCard #ClipperCard #GoogleWallet #MBTA #Metro #NFCPayments #openLoop #openPayments #SmarTrip #tapToPay #TheT #transit #transitApps #transitCards
  4. My growing retired-transit-card collection

    A year ago, this week’s work trip to the Bay Area would have meant breaking out the oldest computer that I was still using with any regularity at the time: the Clipper card that I bought in June of 2012 to pay for fares on BART, Muni and other transit agencies around San Francisco.

    But this year, I could leave that NFC-enabled smart card in the little holder in which I store my other stored-value transit cards and instead tap my phone to pay with my business credit card for each ride–first a SamTrans bus from SFO to Millbrae, then Caltrain to San Jose for TechEx North America, then two days of commuting up and down the peninsula for Google I/O.

    BART started accepting contactless payments last August, and now all the Bay Area transit services that accept Clipper cards also let you tap to pay with a phone, a smartwatch or a credit or debit card with an NFC chip.

    Whether you call it “tap to pay,” “open payments” or “open loop,” letting people pay for a fare as if it were any other on-the-go purchase is a great advance for transit. Especially for out-of-towners, as I realized years ago when visiting Chicago and Portland and appreciating the early lead of their transit services in this key bit of CX.

    A growing array of agencies across the U.S. have finally wised up to this after years of requiring people to buy proprietary stored-value cards, install agency-specific apps or make a throwback cash payment: Metro, NYC’s MTA, the T in Boston, NJ Transit buses and light rail, SEPTA around Philadelphia, MARTA in Atlanta, and the Seattle region’s Sound Transit, among many others.

    L.A.’s Metro has been a high-profile laggard–a personally inconvenient one since my TAP card expired last year. But this week users have begun reporting success on Reddit and in Bluesky posts with using their phones and credit cards to cover train and bus fares now that Metro there seems to have begun a soft launch of what it calls “TAP Plus.”

    As I’ve spent down the balance on transit cards I no longer need, the ones that I still need to use are now most entirely confined to agencies in other countries. Some examples: I love Barcelona’s Metro but I don’t love how it doesn’t support tap to pay; Doha’s driverless metro is a technological marvel but also requires its own colorful card; Vancouver’s Compass Card offers enough of a discount over tap-to-pay rates (because that city didn’t follow Toronto’s fare-neutral example) that I picked up one for last year’s Web Summit conference there and used it again for this year’s event.

    But there is one awkward exception right in my neighborhood: Arlington Transit, which continues to require the SmarTrip card that WMATA rolled out in 1999. So while I can pay for Metro like it’s the 21st century, I still have to keep my well-worn SmarTrip card handy in case an ART bus rolls up before a Metro bus does.

    #ApplePay #ArlingtonTransit #ARTBus #BART #Caltrain #CharlieCard #ClipperCard #GoogleWallet #MBTA #Metro #NFCPayments #openLoop #openPayments #SmarTrip #tapToPay #TheT #transit #transitApps #transitCards
  5. Worst best ridiculous public health ad, ever. On BART! Why bring the poor trains and planes into this pustulent telenovela?! Implication that frankenbart and its slutty airplane have been sleeping around? #BART #silly

  6. Today me and my friends took Bart to go to the east bay a ride our bikes for 30miles around Orinda area.

    Stopped a Gregoire's on the way back, a delicious sandwich and salad place in Berkley. The vegan fried chicken is a must!! Highly recommend it.

    Taking Bart for a bike ride on Saturday morning was surprisingly very pleasant. It also enabled us to start and end a different points (Orinda and Downtown Berkley)

    Is there any transit agency that does a sort of group discount? Because it would have been much cheaper to drive, despite the gas prices...

    #sfba #bikeTooter #bart

  7. Habitat fortifié à #Bart (#Doubs) Habitat pré-urbain antérieur à l'époque romaine (néolithique, Tène et gallo-romain) Présence d'un rempart en terre monumental associé à un fossé défensif. Construction Protohis...
    Suite 👉 monumentum.fr/monument-histori
    #Patrimoine #MonumentHistorique
    Photo CC-BY-SA 4.0 : Jean espirat

  8. Back when Bay Area Rapid Transit only used to go to Concord, Richmond, Fremont, and Daly City, and people read newspapers on public transportation.

    Many more Bay Area Rapid Transit images from the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives, on Flickr Commons.

    flickr.com/search/?user_id=494

    #BART #Photography

  9. ‘Knife fight’ politics take a mental health toll on SF leaders – The San Francisco Standard

    ‘Knife fight’ politics take a mental health toll on SF leaders  The San Francisco StandardS.F. supervisor Jackie Fielder, in…
    #NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #BART #BoardofSupervisors #Health #JackieFielder #MentalHealth #Politics #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/517490/

  10. I’m in Ohlone Park and I guess I should be watching my daughter play soccer but instead I keep thinking about they should dig up the park to build a third #BART track allowing trains to turn at Downtown #Berkeley.

    #trains #Transit #PublicTransportation

  11. The Bay Area regional transit measure is not a “bailout” for #BART & #Muni because they are failing. It’s simply addressing the problem that our agencies rely too much on fares to survive. It’s normal and right for our cities to subsidize public #transit, just like nearly every other major city.

  12. The Bay Area regional transit measure is not a “bailout” for #BART & #Muni because they are failing. It’s simply addressing the problem that our agencies rely too much on fares to survive. It’s normal and right for our cities to subsidize public #transit, just like nearly every other major city.

  13. The Bay Area regional transit measure is not a “bailout” for #BART & #Muni because they are failing. It’s simply addressing the problem that our agencies rely too much on fares to survive. It’s normal and right for our cities to subsidize public #transit, just like nearly every other major city.

  14. The Bay Area regional transit measure is not a “bailout” for #BART & #Muni because they are failing. It’s simply addressing the problem that our agencies rely too much on fares to survive. It’s normal and right for our cities to subsidize public #transit, just like nearly every other major city.

  15. The Bay Area regional transit measure is not a “bailout” for #BART & #Muni because they are failing. It’s simply addressing the problem that our agencies rely too much on fares to survive. It’s normal and right for our cities to subsidize public #transit, just like nearly every other major city.

  16. #BART delay in SFO direction because of police activity in SF.

  17. #SanLeandro #PoliceChief Angela Averiett involved in late night high speed hit and run on 580 #Freeway. Victim found out from #CHP that speeding car with flashing lights that recklessly hit side mirror & rapidly switched 4 lanes over and ditched scene, had license plate registered to top cop in #LeastBay city... She hasn't been charged by any responsive regional policing agency, and has further evaded responsibilities by having the underling that responded to citizen's complaint take new role now going to work for #BART cops in ostensible #PR role "to enhance #trust and #accountability".

    Since the flagrant late night hit & run, she made her underling #DeputyChief in charge of the #SFBayArea #BartPolice "Progressive Policing and Community Engagement Bureau" via the endless taxpayer teat.

    Via #DanNoyes #abc7news #BayArea #CopWatch #ThinBlueLies

    abc7news.com/post/san-leandro-

  18. #SanLeandro #PoliceChief Angela Averiett involved in late night high speed hit and run on 580 #Freeway. Victim found out from #CHP that speeding car with flashing lights that recklessly hit side mirror & rapidly switched 4 lanes over and ditched scene, had license plate registered to top cop in #LeastBay city... She hasn't been charged by any responsive regional policing agency, and has further evaded responsibilities by having the underling that responded to citizen's complaint take new role now going to work for #BART cops in ostensible #PR role "to enhance #trust and #accountability".

    Since the flagrant late night hit & run, she made her underling #DeputyChief in charge of the #SFBayArea #BartPolice "Progressive Policing and Community Engagement Bureau" via the endless taxpayer teat.

    Via #DanNoyes #abc7news #BayArea #CopWatch #ThinBlueLies

    abc7news.com/post/san-leandro-

  19. #SanLeandro #PoliceChief Angela Averiett involved in late night high speed hit and run on 580 #Freeway. Victim found out from #CHP that speeding car with flashing lights that recklessly hit side mirror & rapidly switched 4 lanes over and ditched scene, had license plate registered to top cop in #LeastBay city... She hasn't been charged by any responsive regional policing agency, and has further evaded responsibilities by having the underling that responded to citizen's complaint take new role now going to work for #BART cops in ostensible #PR role "to enhance #trust and #accountability".

    Since the flagrant late night hit & run, she made her underling #DeputyChief in charge of the #SFBayArea #BartPolice "Progressive Policing and Community Engagement Bureau" via the endless taxpayer teat.

    Via #DanNoyes #abc7news #BayArea #CopWatch #ThinBlueLies

    abc7news.com/post/san-leandro-

  20. #SanLeandro #PoliceChief Angela Averiett involved in late night high speed hit and run on 580 #Freeway. Victim found out from #CHP that speeding car with flashing lights that recklessly hit side mirror & rapidly switched 4 lanes over and ditched scene, had license plate registered to top cop in #LeastBay city... She hasn't been charged by any responsive regional policing agency, and has further evaded responsibilities by having the underling that responded to citizen's complaint take new role now going to work for #BART cops in ostensible #PR role "to enhance #trust and #accountability".

    Since the flagrant late night hit & run, she made her underling #DeputyChief in charge of the #SFBayArea #BartPolice "Progressive Policing and Community Engagement Bureau" via the endless taxpayer teat.

    Via #DanNoyes #abc7news #BayArea #CopWatch #ThinBlueLies

    abc7news.com/post/san-leandro-

  21. Actually insane. Imagine if BART and AC Transit goes down. Game over for the Bay.

    "AC Transit staff, at a meeting of its board of directors last week, said that without voter approval of a tax measure in November, which promises to raise $1 billion a year for 14 years for Bay Area transit, the agency projects deficits of $50 million a year beginning in the 2027-28 fiscal year.

    One of the scenarios to close that gap in the agency’s mildly named Alternate Service Plan could reduce costs by up to $53 million annually by cutting 16.4% of current service, which already sits at 85% of pre-pandemic levels. Another scenario would reduce costs by $36.75 million and cut bus service by 11.45% of current levels."

    oaklandside.org/2026/03/30/ac-

    #ACTransit #bart #publictransportation #buses #eastbay #travel

  22. Actually insane. Imagine if BART and AC Transit goes down. Game over for the Bay.

    "AC Transit staff, at a meeting of its board of directors last week, said that without voter approval of a tax measure in November, which promises to raise $1 billion a year for 14 years for Bay Area transit, the agency projects deficits of $50 million a year beginning in the 2027-28 fiscal year.

    One of the scenarios to close that gap in the agency’s mildly named Alternate Service Plan could reduce costs by up to $53 million annually by cutting 16.4% of current service, which already sits at 85% of pre-pandemic levels. Another scenario would reduce costs by $36.75 million and cut bus service by 11.45% of current levels."

    oaklandside.org/2026/03/30/ac-

    #ACTransit #bart #publictransportation #buses #eastbay #travel

  23. Actually insane. Imagine if BART and AC Transit goes down. Game over for the Bay.

    "AC Transit staff, at a meeting of its board of directors last week, said that without voter approval of a tax measure in November, which promises to raise $1 billion a year for 14 years for Bay Area transit, the agency projects deficits of $50 million a year beginning in the 2027-28 fiscal year.

    One of the scenarios to close that gap in the agency’s mildly named Alternate Service Plan could reduce costs by up to $53 million annually by cutting 16.4% of current service, which already sits at 85% of pre-pandemic levels. Another scenario would reduce costs by $36.75 million and cut bus service by 11.45% of current levels."

    oaklandside.org/2026/03/30/ac-

    #ACTransit #bart #publictransportation #buses #eastbay #travel

  24. @dev Agree. My #VTA + #BART + #ACTransit route used to be $8.55 on my #clippercard , now it's $3.70. Not sure how this math / finance works out.

    I did read that the current discount is up for review in approx 18-24 months.

  25. @dev Agree. My #VTA + #BART + #ACTransit route used to be $8.55 on my #clippercard , now it's $3.70. Not sure how this math / finance works out.

    I did read that the current discount is up for review in approx 18-24 months.

  26. @dev Agree. My #VTA + #BART + #ACTransit route used to be $8.55 on my #clippercard , now it's $3.70. Not sure how this math / finance works out.

    I did read that the current discount is up for review in approx 18-24 months.

  27. @dev Agree. My + + route used to be $8.55 on my , now it's $3.70. Not sure how this math / finance works out.

    I did read that the current discount is up for review in approx 18-24 months.

  28. @dev Agree. My #VTA + #BART + #ACTransit route used to be $8.55 on my #clippercard , now it's $3.70. Not sure how this math / finance works out.

    I did read that the current discount is up for review in approx 18-24 months.

  29. #BART delayed because of "police activity" at Daly City.

    But according to the BART operator they are still waiting for the cops to show up.

  30. Taking a series of trains, buses and fun facts about them

    1. Civic Center, San Francisco to MacArthur, Oakland

    Fun fact: BART uses the broad gauge, same as Indian Railways (another train system I know super well)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_ft_6_i

    EDIT: adding prices as a record. This was $4.80

    #Trains #Transit #BART #BayArea #SanFrancisco #Oakland

  31. For the San Francisco Bay Area, a question:

    Do you want functional transit
    OR
    gridlock?

    Sign the petitions to put the transit funding measures on the ballot
    & Vote for them

    Or spend an extra hour or 2 in traffic.

    Your choice.
    #transit #BART #CalTrain #bus

  32. For the San Francisco Bay Area, a question:

    Do you want functional transit
    OR
    gridlock?

    Sign the petitions to put the transit funding measures on the ballot
    & Vote for them

    Or spend an extra hour or 2 in traffic.

    Your choice.
    #transit #BART #CalTrain #bus

  33. For the San Francisco Bay Area, a question:

    Do you want functional transit
    OR
    gridlock?

    Sign the petitions to put the transit funding measures on the ballot
    & Vote for them

    Or spend an extra hour or 2 in traffic.

    Your choice.
    #transit #BART #CalTrain #bus

  34. For the San Francisco Bay Area, a question:

    Do you want functional transit
    OR
    gridlock?

    Sign the petitions to put the transit funding measures on the ballot
    & Vote for them

    Or spend an extra hour or 2 in traffic.

    Your choice.
    #transit #BART #CalTrain #bus

  35. For the San Francisco Bay Area, a question:

    Do you want functional transit
    OR
    gridlock?

    Sign the petitions to put the transit funding measures on the ballot
    & Vote for them

    Or spend an extra hour or 2 in traffic.

    Your choice.
    #transit #BART #CalTrain #bus