Happy Transit Month!

This is your quick guide for all the fun taking place across the Bay Area including 70+ exciting and interactive events, the Ride Contest, nominating your Transit Heroes of 2025, and more!

What is Transit Month? 

Transit Month celebrates the buses, trains, workers, and riders that make the wonderful Bay Area transit system we all know and ride. Check out the more than 70 events on the calendar this year; participate in the month-long Ride Contest to win prizes, earn digital badges, and compete on leaderboards; and nominate your Transit Heroes of 2025 to be honored for their contributions to Bay Area transit. 

With 70+ events happening across the Bay Area, there is something for everyone

Transit Month is the perfect time to hop on board with your friends and family to discover new adventures you can access through transit, build community, raise awareness about the importance of keeping our region moving through transit, and get more involved with your local organizations. 

Whether you want to join a group for a transit-accessible hike or bike ride, grab a drink at a casual social, chat with CEOs of transit agencies, ride on historic streetcars, take transit to visit a museum, or join dozens of other events, there is an event for everyone.

Some events have maximum registration limits, so view events quickly and sign up to secure your spot today!

Here are the events Seamless Bay Area is hosting: 


The annual Ride Contest returns!

The Ride Contest is a website where you can track your trips on Bay Area transit throughout September to win prizes, compete against friends for top leaderboard positions, earn digital badges for accomplishing unique challenges, and show your love for transit!

This year, we're encouraging people to take a bus, train, or ferry to somewhere they’ve never taken transit before, to take a friend on board who’s new to transit, and to use our Transit Month calendar to start your next adventure!

In 2024, Ride Contest participants took over 18,000 transit trips for a cumulative 105,000 miles traveled on Bay Area transit!


Nominate your 2025 Transit Heroes for the Rider First Awards

Do you have an amazing bus driver, train operator, or station attendant who makes your rides better? Is there a person that speaks up effectively for transit and helps other riders? Or maybe you’ve seen improvements on your trips such as new transit lanes, boarding areas, better signage, or clear communication. 

For our 8th Annual Rider First Awards, we’re looking for you to nominate people or projects that have made life better for transit riders in the past year!

For example, nominees can be: 

  • An amazing bus driver, train operator, station attendant, or ambassador. 

  • People who have spoken up effectively for transit or helped other riders. 

  • Improvements you’ve seen on your trips such as new transit lanes, boarding areas, better signage, or clear communication.

  • Any people or improvements that have made transit better in some way.

If you only know the project (transit lanes, improved bus stop, etc), give us the details and we can help track down the people responsible for the positive change!

Tell us who your Transit Heroes of 2025 are before Sunday, September 28th at midnight. 

First year of SoCal and San Diego Transit Month

Transit Month is also expanding from the Bay to LA and San Diego! You can see the list of SoCal events here and San Diego events here.

 
 

Why Transit Month is needed more than ever before

Public transportation is more than just a means of transportation. Transit connects communities, increases mobility, maintains our healthy environment, and opens opportunities to discover something new. 

For the 5th year in a row, Bay Area Transit Month celebrates the role of public transportation in our communities and the region’s economic, social, and cultural vibrancy. Public transit is essential to thriving cities and the people who make those cities special. 

This year, Transit Month comes at an important moment for the future of Bay Area transit. Right now, there are dozens of ongoing and future initiatives aimed at improving transit coordination, preventing service cuts, and making the experience better for riders. Now, more than ever, it's important that we show our elected leaders how important transit is to our communities and that we need to continue funding and improving the system.

By showing up to Transit Month events and getting out and taking transit this September, we raise awareness about the importance of keeping our region moving through transit. 


Transit Month is a community-driven project

September's month-long celebration of public transit would not be possible without the work of dozens of community-based organizations, public agencies, cultural institutions, individuals, and other organizations who host events. We especially want to thank our Transit Month co-organizer, San Francisco Transit Riders.

Transit Month is made possible by generous sponsorship from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Bay Area Air District, TWU Local 250A, San Francisco Bay Ferry, Chase Center/Golden State Warriors, Jawnt, Amtrak Capitol Corridor, San Francisco County Transportation Authority, Swiftly, Kaiser Permanente, and Fehr & Peers.

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Kaleo Mark