Come celebrate our recent wins, meet Transbay Coalition and Seamless Bay Area supporters, and help raise money to strengthen Bay Area transit advocacy.

​We are closing out Transit Month 2025 at the Rider First Awards by celebrating some of the people who have gone above and beyond to improve transit in the past year. We'll honor bus operators, transit planners, and advocates alike who help us build a more equitable, growing, and accessible public transit system and culture for all. It's also where we'll be announcing our various Ride Contest winners and handing out prizes.

We're excited to host the Bay Area’s own Carter Lavin, for a discussion of his upcoming book, If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation. The book is filled with lessons from his experience organizing with Transbay Coalition, multiple transit, bike, and street safety advocacy groups throughout the Bay Area as well as interviews with dozens of transportation activists around the country. If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight, provides a roadmap for transforming your passion into political power. 

Around the world, a growing number of public transportation systems are providing open payment to riders, giving people the ability to pay for transit with credit/debit cards and mobile wallets. Join this session to learn the ways open payment systems are being used across California and around the world; how open payment can make transit more convenient, appealing, and affordable and help attract new riders; opportunities for equitable access to transit enabled by open payment; and addressing privacy, usability, and other concerns.

Join us for a casual community-building, transit-themed happy hour at Redwood City where we'll be celebrating San Mateo County's decision to join a 2026 regional transit funding ballot measure. Come get to know fellow transit and active transportation supporters and learn about how we can all fight for better transit and more walkable/bikeable streets!

Flying cars in the Jetsons; trains snaking around towers in Wakanda, or the sentient rail system on the newly terraformed Sask-E planet. In building future and alternative worlds, the way people get around can be used to reveal and ask questions about societies, technologies, and politics. Join this panel discussion to learn how depictions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination.

🚨EMERGENCY RALLY TO SAVE BAY AREA TRANSIT🚨

Governor Newsom promised a $750 million emergency loan for Bay Area public transit and it's now at risk. This would mean massive service cuts on BART, Muni, AC Transit, and Caltrain. Let's show Newsom that we won't stand for service cuts.

In the mid-20th century, the Key System had some 66 miles of electrified streetcar service running in the East Bay. Today, little remains of this streetcar systems, but we're still able to acquaint ourselves with four important contributors to these systems. Join us for a walking tour through at Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery with local historian and author Dennis Evanosky where we will be introduced to the four men who created and refined the lines that became the Key Route and evolved into the Key System.

Come to Santa Rosa for a walking tour of the Bay Area's new transit signage. Afterwards, we'll have a social event at Shady Oak Brewery to grab a bite, drink, and meet new (and familiar) faces! This is the kickoff event for North Bay Transit Riders, a new community group working to improve public transit in Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and Solano Counties.

Join this Rally for Transit in Santa Clara County to pressure local leaders to opt the County into the 2026 regional transportation funding measure - preventing dire cuts and improving service on Caltrain, VTA, BART, and other transit agencies.

California has no shortage of ambitious goals for transforming transit, but progress has been achingly slow. In order for California to achieve its vision for a world-class rail network and seamless regional transit, we'll need major governance and funding reforms. Join this webinar to take a look at the lessons California and the United States can learn from countries like South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan.

Community members and advocates are mobilizing at a rally on Tuesday, July 1st to pressure San Mateo County leaders to “opt-in” to the 2026 regional transportation funding measure - preventing dire service cuts to BART, Caltrain, Muni, AC Transit, and other transit agencies. If San Mateo County does not “opt-in,” BART and Caltrain will be forced to slash service in the County: stranding riders, clogging our roads, fouling our air, and stalling our economy.

Last week Governor Gavin Newsom proposed slashing transit funding in the state budget. This is despite, thousands of Californians and over 115 organizations calling on the Governor to invest $2 billion in transit throughout the state for. Tune in to the webinar and Q&A with California transit advocates and policy experts to learn: What the Governor's proposed budget means for your community, what happens next in the budget process, and what we can all do to push back to save transit in California!

Join this conversation with Dr. Marco Chitti, fellow at NYU Marron Institute and Transit Costs Project, who will speak on Italy's “Long Modernization” – an incremental railway modernization process spanning over a century through planning and steady, programmatic funding. What lessons can American rail project delivery learn from Italy? What are other ways to structure American public transport investment?

Join local organizations and transit advocates at Lytton Plaza on May 21st, 2025 from 5-7pm to learn how e-scooters and e-bikes can revolutionize how you can get around.

Climate change demands new solutions - and new stories. Join Seamless Bay Area and NorCal Public Media for a special screening of Climate California, a new PBS documentary series exploring the causes, impacts, and solutions of climate change through the stories of people. ​This event will air the 30-minute episode on how technology can help or hinder the fight against climate change. The episode screening will be followed by a panel and Q&A with the documentary filmmakers and documentary series guests. Light snacks and drinks will be provided. 

How can we create transportation options for workers and residents and address the housing shortage? Join this event where we will myth-bust the parking and traffic worries that are common barriers to addressing the housing shortage. We'll look towards local solutions and think about how transportation demand management measures can be implemented in our community, especially at new housing sites.

Care about the interconnection of climate, health and transportation? Help build the regional vision at the Move Bay Area North Bay Summit at Napa Valley College!

Oakland's District 2 Special Election on April 15th can significantly impact how Oakland residents and visitors get around. Tune in to learn directly from the candidates vying for your vote about their values, vision, and plans for how Oakland residents and visitors get around.

San Jose voters living in the downtown and the surrounding area will decide who will represent them on City Council this coming April - with early voting starting on March 10th. Join this webinar to learn directly from District 3 candidates vying for your vote about their values, vision, and plans for how San Jose residents and visitors get around.

Tune into this webinar to learn about the plan from California State Transportation Agency staff. Researchers and advocates will give their reaction to the updated plan including cost analysis, the political changes needed to implement reforms, and upcoming funding and reform opportunities.

Join us for an exciting event where we'll dive into the future of transportation in the Bay Area.

Join as we talk to residents and urge them to send letters to their elected officials in favor of more transit funding, policy reforms, and the importance of public transit!

Join us on Thursday, Dec 12th for an on-site tour of the Bay Area's new transit signage and for a social event.

The Bay Area is identifying its vision and plan for the future of public transportation and we need community members like you to provide feedback.

Join San Francisco Transit Riders and Seamless Bay Area to close out Transit Month by celebrating some of the people who have gone above and beyond to improve transit in the past year.

The Bay Area is identifying its vision and plan for the future of public transportation and we need community members like you to provide feedback!

The Bay Area is identifying its vision and plan for the future of public transportation and we need community members like you to provide feedback!

The Bay Area is identifying its vision and plan for the future of public transportation and we need community members like you to provide feedback!