What you need to know
The Bay Area s Clipper Card arrives on Google Pay for easy transit payments.
Clipper Cards can be transferred from a plastic card to the app and easily reloaded.
Google Pay is also introducing new viewable transit passes.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) announced on Wednesday that Bay Area residents with Android smartphones are now able to use Google Pay to access their Clipper card and pay for transit.
Residents in the Bay Area will be able to transfer their existing Clipper cards to their smartphones using the new Clipper app that was also launched for Android. After launching the app and selecting the option to Convert Clipper to Your Phone, users will just have to hold the card against their smartphone for it to transfer. From there, the card can be added to Google Pay for easy access.
BARTâs 9 p.m. pandemic-era curfew is ending Aug. 30
By KTVU staff
New BART car courtesy BART
SAN FRANCISCO - As the pandemic eases, BART will ramp up its service with restoration to near pre-pandemic levels by August 30, transit officials announced on Monday.
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is seeing its ridership increase to its highest levels since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused ridership to plummet in March of 2020.
Last week, BART reported record weekday ridership on Thursday with 64,070 customers. They broke that record the next day with 65,628 riders on May 7. They ve since seen record weekend ridership for Saturday and Sunday each.
UC Berkeley senior Shashank Dholakia was ready to start using public transit again after finally getting vaccinated for COVID-19. Dholakia, a frequent user of his campus-issued “EZ Pass,” had been using AC Transit normally prior to the pandemic until a few days ago, when his card was suddenly declined.
Dholakia was caught off guard; he had placed a significant amount of money in his account, as before the pandemic hit, he used BART and AC Transit on a regular basis. After contacting UC Berkeley’s Parking and Transportation office, he was told that if his card was left unused for six months, it would have expired.
Apple Pay Now Available on Clipper Card: How to Use in Transit Systems
Apple Pay enters a broader range now that it includes the Clipper Card. You can now use your iPhone or Apple watch to pay instead of the traditional tap-to-pay card.
Photo : Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Image
Apple Pay enters a broader range now that it includes the Clipper Card. You can now use your iPhone or Apple watch to pay instead of the traditional tap-to-pay card. This development brings exciting new features but also a few reminders you should keep an eye out for.
The Verge noted that the Clipper Card is an all-in-one transit card used for contactless fare payments throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. You can reload money to the card, and it would automatically serve as your electronic transit fare payment. The Clipper Card is used for various transportation modes, including BART (which serves the East Bay and San Francisco), Caltrain (which connects San Francisco to the peninsula and South Bay), Muni
Silicon Valley’s Clipper all-in-one transit card finally adds Apple Pay Sean Hollister
Silicon Valley might seem like a shining beacon of technological progress to some onlookers, but natives know it can be weirdly hit and miss like how the San Francisco Bay Area has long had a
physical tap-to-pay card that’ll let you onto practically every form of public transit, and yet never let you simply tap your phone or smartwatch to do the same.
Until today because starting today, the Clipper Card supports Apple Pay, including its Express Mode where you don’t need to wake the device or open an app first.