Officials with public-transit agencies serving San Francisco say they’ve coordinated changes to their respective schedules to make it easier for passengers to transfer between systems and, thus, retain riders and attract new ones.
BART announced that its forthcoming Aug. 12 schedule change is coinciding with expected adjustments to the schedules of Caltrain and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, among others in the Bay Area. The regional rail line said the agencies first met in March to discuss improving transfers, and their leaders are working on another set of schedule changes to take effect in January.
BART officials said the Muni 28 19th Avenue bus to the Daly City BART station is changing so East Bay-bound riders can catch the final Oakland train of the night, while BART’s new schedule ensures 90% of weekend trains and 85% of trains have a transfer within 19 minutes at Caltrain’s Millbrae station.
“We want to make transit as welcoming and easy to use as possible for our riders,” Christopher Filippi, a BART communications officer, said. “Bay Area transit agencies are syncing schedules with a focus on improving transfers between systems and making schedule changes at the same time.”