Daily Journal
By Eli Walsh
The Bay Area’s myriad transit agencies could soon utilize a single mapping system after the region’s transportation planning agency approved a contract to streamline transit information and guidance.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s Operations Committee approved a $6 million contract Friday with the mapping company Applied Wayfinding Inc. to develop a streamlined system of maps, signage and information at every transit station in the nine-county Bay Area.
The regional mapping project is part of a 27-point plan devised by the MTC’s Blue Ribbon Transit Recovery Task Force in 2020 to help the region’s transit systems rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic while making public transit more efficient and easier to use...
State Sen. Josh Becker, D-San Mateo, introduced a bill in February that would require all 27 agencies in the Bay Area to implement a standardized fare system and align their schedules by mid-2024...
“Transforming more than two dozen separate transit systems into one coordinated network demands focus on the customer experience, and that starts with clear and consistent information that applies to every one of the Bay Area’s buses, trains, ferries, light-rail vehicles, streetcars or cable cars that crisscross our region,” Becker said in a statement praising the MTC for forging ahead with developing a new mapping system.