Entries and exits decreased 2 percent from 2017 to last year, and dropped another 8 percent since then, according to agency records.
As the San Francisco Chronicle‘s Rachel Swan reports, “For the past two years, BART officials have watched riders peel off the airport line. This is in response to declining ridership on BART’s SFO line, ostensibly due to competition from Uber and Lyft. If the trip on BART or other public transportation is verified, the customer would proceed to a priority line to go through TSA screening. With TVT, SFO-hired staff would use devices at a designated entry point to scan Clipper cards or QR codes on BART apps to verify a customer used public transportation to get to the airport. The directors voted to approve trip verification technology (TVT).
Step one is to develop an app that can prove people arrived at the airport via transit. Asking for money while working on huge expensive projects is a tough sell, and BART already has its plate full with a different huge expensive project in the BART San Jose extension, which currently has its own respective $9 billion price tag and is not expected to be completed until 2034.BART has set out to give people who use transit to get to San Francisco International access to the priority security lines.
That site is still promoting the idea of “a new passenger rail crossing of the San Francisco Bay and other improvements.”īut BART has plenty of its own problems these days, with the Chron estimating their ridership is currently only 40% of pre-pandemic levels, and that “Updated ridership projections by BART show ridership at about 49% of pre-pandemic levels by 2025.” Plus they’re looking at an estimated $300 million deficit, and may be asking voters to approve more money the system. The image above shows one of these concepts (the crossing could go above or beneath the water) and there are five other concepts shown in a scroll down menu on the Link21 website. There is still the possibility of some sort of “Transbay Rail Crossing” that goes across the Bay. “So we will be advancing concepts with only BART or only regional rail in the crossing.” Image: Link21 “Building two new crossings - one for BART and one for regional rail - is not cost effective for the amount of demand we’re anticipating,” Link21 planner Chester Fung said in a Tuesday Link21 committee meeting, per the Chronicle. But ridership on BART and other Bay Area rail agencies has declined dramatically since the pandemic, and planners say that the project won't generate enough ridership to justify the cost. Another transbay rail crossing has been discussed for decades.
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