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Muni bart widget4/12/2023 Once the two agencies are using 100 percent electronic fare collection, there will no longer be any need for two sets of fare gates. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)’s “Transit Connectivity Report,” done in 2005, found that 51 percent of BART riders transfer to and from bus or light rail at Civic Center Station alone. The idea in both cases is to simplify and speed boarding and payment, with the ultimate goal of getting everyone using Clipper or a fare app and eliminating cash fares and clunky paper tickets. Muni also adds a surcharge for using cash and offers discounts for transfers from other agencies when using a Clipper card. “We have sold 45,000 Clipper cards since their installation last autumn.” “We have two Clipper vending machines at many stations and at least one in all stations,” explained BART spokesman James Allison. In addition to its January 1 fare increase of 2.7 percent, BART is now adding a $.50 surcharge on paper tickets, in an effort to encourage all riders to use Clipper. “That scenario has happened to me too many times to count!” said Rachel Hyden, Executive Director of the San Francisco Transit Riders, who said she wants to see the obstacles between the two systems removed. And thanks to the cage bars around the stairs, sometimes you actually get to see the train you’re going to miss as you rush through this Habitrail for humans. At off-peak times, this can easily add twenty minutes to your trip. You get off your BART train at Civic Center or one of the other downtown stations, run up the stairs, tag out of BART, run across the mezzanine, tag into Muni, run back downstairs, and miss your train by seconds. If you commute by BART and Muni, you’ve no doubt been in the frustrating situation shown in the lead image.
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