Posts tagged "translink"

Translink may come to BART sometime within this decade

A unified fare payment medium will go a long way in unifying the Bay Area’s highly fragmented, 28-agency transit system. From a user perspective, needing to know fare rules and exact change for multiple transit systems makes the daily commute tricky and makes non-routine transit trips to new areas an exercise in information systems research. [...]

if the chron gets it, it must be obvious

Maybe spreading common sense ideas and stating the obvious is a way for San Francisco’s most widely read fishwrapper to avoid the fate of other dailies, but I guess it’s good that they finally figured it out: MAYBE HAVING 26 TRANSIT AGENCIES IS BAD FOR BAY AREA COMMUTERS. Like, duh. Sarcasm aside, turns out that [...]