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The smart card system designed and delivered by Cubic Transportation Systems Australia, part of the transportation systems division of Cubic Corporation (NYSE:CUB), for public transport in the Australian state of Queensland has reached a major milestone, with the sale of the three millionth go card. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) August 23, 2012 The smart card system designed and delivered by Cubic Transportation Systems Australia, part of the transportation systems division of Cubic Corporation...

OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning September 1, 2012, new Adult Clipper cards will cost $3. As an incentive for customers to try automatically reloading their Clipper cards, Clipper will waive the $3 fee for customers who sign up for the Autoload feature when they order a card online at clippercard.com. The new $3 fee is only for new Adult Clipper cards; Youth and Senior Clipper cards remain free, and the fee for a Regional Transit Connection Clipper card,...

OAKLAND, Calif., July 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is set to expand next year to 21 members from the current 19 after Gov. Brown today signed into law Assembly Bill 57 (Beall). One of the new commissioners is to be appointed by the mayor of San Jose and the other by the mayor of Oakland. To align the incoming members' terms with MTC's four-year cycle, AB 57 -- which takes effect Jan. 1, 2013 -- sets the initial terms of the new...

OAKLAND, Calif., April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As Bay Area transit agencies change their paper discount tickets and passes to be available only on the Clipper® transit fare card, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is working to ensure that transit riders who are minorities or low-income or have limited English proficiency are not negatively affected. As part of this effort, MTC has conducted a series of assessments on the impact of specific pass and ticket transitions...

OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bay Area's Clipper(®) transit fare-collection program has hit the magic 1 million number -- 1 million active cards in circulation, that is. Staff at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) credit the surge to transit operator campaigns to transition more riders, especially youth and senior riders, from paper tickets and passes to the reloadable Clipper card before the end of the year. As of Friday, December 16, there were...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Commuters setting sail with the Clipper transit fare card now have two convenient ports in downtown San Francisco -- on the concourse level of the Embarcadero BART/Muni station and at the Bay Crossings store in the Ferry Building -- where they can not only pick up a new card or add value to an existing card but also use transit benefit vouchers or transit benefit debit cards to load value onto their Clipper card, exchange a damaged or defective...

OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Friday, Dec. 31 is the final day AC Transit's paper 31-Day adult pass and its paper 10-Ride tickets will be accepted for fare payment on the agency's buses. AC Transit stopped selling the paper passes Oct. 31, and the adult 31-Day pass is now available only as an electronic product loaded onto Clipper regional transit-fare payment cards. AC Transit no longer sells the 10-Ride ticket in any form. Customers who previously purchased 10-Ride...

OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The fast-growing Clipper(SM) system set another new usage record during the week ending Dec. 10, when the distinctive blue-and-white cards were used as payment for more than 325,000 boardings each weekday on Bay Area buses, trains and ferries. This marks an increase of about 5,000 passengers a day from the roughly 320,000 average weekday boardings in late November and a jump of more than 250,000 since the formal launch of the Clipper card in...

OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The number of Bay Area transit riders using Clipper(SM) to pay fares on buses, trains and ferries rose to an average of more than 320,000 during the week ending Nov. 19. This marks a 43 percent increase from the roughly 225,000 average weekday boardings in mid-October and a fivefold jump since the formal launch of the Clipper card in mid-June. San Francisco Muni accounted for an average of 177,000 Clipper boardings during the work week ending...

Vancouver residents and visitors set records for sustainable travel during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, more than doubling the number of trips typically taken by public transit, biking or walking, according to a University of British Columbia study completed for the City of Vancouver.The Host City Olympic Transportation Plan Downtown Monitoring Study looked at how people got around during the February 12-28 Winter Games, and compared the findings to previous transportation monitoring...