A group of advocates, riders and staffers of Bay Area transit agencies gathered in downtown Oakland Monday morning with a mission.
Together, they planned to travel via public transit to San Francisco, where the Transit Transformation Task Force for the California State Transportation Agency was convening a discussion of how to get more riders on buses and trains around the state. The traveling group planned to take a bus before boarding a ferry to San Francisco and walking to the meeting. But it didn't quite go like that. Their bus didn't come when they expected, forcing them to scrap the plan for the ferry.
But while riders typically embrace fare integration, it's the local transit agencies that are often hesitant to get on board. Agencies can balk at the possibility of losing revenue from transfer fares, which can happen when riders are allowed to pay a single fare, said MTC assistant director Bill Bacon, who gave a presentation to the task force. Especially for systems like BART that charge higher rates, an agency can make more money off each rider by just collecting its own fare.
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