Happy Monday! More promising Bay Area transit ridership news - Oct 2026 BART weekend ridership was 97.2% of pre-pandemic levels (vs Oct 2019) - and Sunday ridership is now above 2019 levels at 102.9%! My math below - check for yourself at www.bart.gov/news/article...
Ian Griffiths
Ian Griffiths
@icgee.bsky.social
mobility, cities, design, good government / principal at www.cpcs.ca / cofounder www.seamlessbayarea.com / making big plans and logical diagrams to stir blood 🏳️🌈
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This is what happens when you run frequent and reliable service on weekends. The only way this ridership surge continues is if we pass Measure RTM. Here’s more we can look forward to if we pass RTM: sf.streetsblog.org/2026/10/22/c...
Microtransit could be me so much more utilized if people knew about it. A key challenge is that microtransit services are often run by cities, not transit agencies. Regardless they should be communicated as part of a broader network - integrating trip planning in obvious first step.
✨ new from me: over 1 million Bay Area residents are served by microtransit, but it's hardly discoverable. What should agencies and our region do to make it easier to take multimodal trips combining micro and fixed route transit? @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social
People power for transit! This Saturday August 1, join Seamless and Transbay for a beverage and some delicious food truck food while helping us raise money for grassroots organizing to pass the regional ballot measure! RSVP below 👇 @transbaycoalition.bsky.social @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social
Most @sfmta.com don’t know they can pay by tapping their credit card, let alone get free transfers. I ran into one friend whose clipper card got frozen in the upgrade to clipper 2 who was taking Ubers everywhere. His mind was blown when I told him he could just use his visa! @mtcbata.bsky.social
Coming up this Thursday!
Join us @icgee.bsky.social @publicenterprise.bsky.social and @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social for a webinar about how transit funding holds back ambitious investments like electric rail that we need for climate action & affordable transportation. January 8th, 1-2 PST. actionnetwork.org/events/trans...
This thread is exactly why @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social exists. Connections and integration of regional and local systems are key to a transit system that maximizes mobility for the greatest number of people.
When I commuted from San Francisco to study at Stanford in the late 1980s, the San Francisco peninsula rail line @caltrain.com was a primary limiting factor on my education. It ran every two hours and stopped at 10 PM. Why? 🧵 1/
Toronto Union Station on a Tuesday afternoon at 5:15pm. 95% ridership recovery! assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload...
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California needs major reforms to achieve our vision of a world-class, seamless public transit network. Join this webinar to learn from @seung.bsky.social, @icgee.bsky.social, and Dr. Jason Chang about the lessons we can learn from South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. actionnetwork.org/events/what-...
Seoul's transit in the 90s was in crisis, but fare integration, bus priority & network management reforms in 2004 transformed the network in less than 2 yrs, leading to the world-class system the region has today. My latest @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social blog: www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/5/...
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After over a year of listening to advocates around the state, the SB 125 Transit Transformation task force proposed a great set of project delivery reforms (see our letter). When transit agencies opposed, they voted to table all of them. Deeply disappointing. calelectricrail.org/wp-content/u...
At the State Transit Transportation Task Force, transit agencies pushed back against measures to accelerate timelines and constrain costs of capital projects, saying that they are already doing what is needed....
South Korea's public transit is among the best in the world - abundant, cheap, and integrated. It offers many lessons for California & N America at a time when many are losing faith that government is capable of doing big things. 1st of a 3-part blog series: www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/4/...
@seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social is profiled in the new @PBS docuseries Climate California, which tells the stories of climate leaders. Join us Sunday, 4/20, 3:30 for a screening and panel, part of @climateweek.bsky.social with host Charles Loi, me, & other featured activists and orgs lu.ma/1qbjsbwq
How can we advance transformational public transit projects cost-effectively? Project sponsorship is a key practice used by a growing number of agencies, including Metrolinx & East West Rail. I'm moderating a CPCS webinar on Apr 3 with some experts - join us! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Does the news have you feeling down? Channel your energy toward something positive - come out and meet the @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social community at our 2025 Kickoff social and fundraiser next Thursday 2/13. Register here: lu.ma/by63hp6m