WHITE PAPER MAY 2019 Solving the Bay Area’s Fare Policy Problem How streamlined, integrated fares can help the region realize the promise of transit www.spur.org/transitfares Acknowledgments Author: Arielle Fleisher, Senior Transportation Policy Associate Thank you to Microsoft for their generous support of this white paper. We are grateful to the staff and leadership of the Bay Area transit operators who informed this project, as well as to the many advocates, experts and elected officials who participated in the interviews and workshops that contributed to this study. We also thank the SPUR Board of Directors, the SPUR Transportation Technical Committee, Adina Levin, William Bacon, Sara Barz and Nicholas Josefowitz for their leadership, expertise and thoughtful review of drafts of this report. We thank Hamzah Basurrah for designing the report figures and for the substantial data analysis he carried out. Devan Paul’s extensive research Bay Area into the specifics of Bay Area fare policies helped inform this paper, and we thank him for his diligence and commitment to the work. Finally, we thank the many international fare policy experts who lent their time and expertise to this research, especially Martin Powell. This white paper was adopted as SPUR policy on May 7, 2019. SPUR 654 Mission Street 76 South First Street 1554 Broadway San Francisco, CA 94105 San Jose, CA 95113 Oakland, CA 94612 tel. 415.781.8726 tel. 408.638.0083 tel. 510.827.1900
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SPUR | Solving the Bay Area’s Fare Policy Problem 2 Contents Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................................4 Introduction: The Bay Area Has a Fare Policy Problem ............................................................................................