Frustration continues to mount for some Bay Area transit agencies as they continue to wait for the rollout of the next generation of the Clipper card system.
Leaders of the Bay Area transit systems met last week to receive an updated timeline on when riders would begin transitioning to the new Clipper system. The new preliminary timeline shows that the transition would start in mid-July and last through November, barring any remaining risks to the schedule. Previous timelines shown to the board had the transition start in April and May. No official date has been set yet by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area’s transportation planning agency, which also oversees Clipper.
Despite the report from staff at the MTC and Cubic, the vendor of the Clipper system, which showed some recent progress in the project, including the near completion of transitioning Muni fare gates and the delivery of hundreds of new Clipper card readers to BART, transit officials remained disappointed with the lapse in the schedule again…