Looking to get involved in transportation advocacy? New to Seamless Bay Area and not sure exactly what we do? This webinar is perfect for you! On April 16th, join us for this meeting to get a quick overview of who we are. We’ll key you into some exciting volunteer opportunities to help spread awareness about the importance of public transportation and upcoming actions people can take to build a world-class system right here in the Bay Area.

We’ll have time for Q&A at the end of the meeting.

Join us for drinks later this month! We'll be chatting all things seamless transit and giving a short presentation at around 6:30 about our work and recent activities. We hope you can all join in for this fun and festive gathering of transit wonks!

How have other regions brought fragmented, disconnected transit systems together to create a more customer-focused network? How can this make transit easier and faster for all while offering climate and equity benefits? In these regards, the Bay Area has a lot to learn from both domestic and international examples. Hear about similar challenges from around the world and learn what’s possible. Part of TransForm’s Connecting Communities 2019 Speaker Series and co-presented by Seamless Bay Area, SPUR and Friends of Caltrain.

+ Ian Griffiths / Seamless Bay Area
+ Elias Arnestrand / Nordic Innovation House
+ Wiebke Geldmacher / DB Engineering & Consulting
+ Rick Ramacier / County Connection
+ Arielle Fleisher / SPUR

More information and to RSVP check here: https://www.spur.org/events/2019-10-23/more-coordinated-transit-network-learning-other-regions

How have other regions brought fragmented, disconnected transit systems together to create a more customer-focused network? How can this make transit easier and faster for all while offering climate and equity benefits? In these regards, the Bay Area has a lot to learn from both domestic and international examples. Hear about similar challenges from around the world and learn what’s possible. Part of TransForm’s Connecting Communities 2019 Speaker Series and co-presented by Seamless Bay Area, SPUR and Friends of Caltrain.

+ Ian Griffiths / Seamless Bay Area
+ Elias Arnestrand / Nordic Innovation House
+ Wiebke Geldmacher / DB Engineering & Consulting
+ Arielle Fleisher / SPUR

More information and to RSVP check here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/a-more-coordinated-transit-network-learning-from-other-regions/

Looking for a way to get outside and advocate for a better Bay Area transportation system? We got you covered. We're looking for volunteers to help us table our booths at various street festivals and events throughout the Bay.

As a volunteer, you'll help us tell folks about Seamless Bay Area's vision, and engage them in interactive activities that we'll have put together. We provide training to volunteers when they arrive, so don't worry about needing to know everything!

Sign up here or email info@seamlessbayarea.org

We’re fanning out across the Bay Area Collecting stories of people’s experience with our transportation system. Through this initiative, we’re hoping to tell a broader, people-powered story of Bay Area transit and how it affects our lives.

In the coming months, we’ll be publishing these testimonials online and compiling them into a series of powerful short videos that show the immense value our system plays in the lives of those who live and work here and how improvements can benefit our region.

You can support us by helping to collect these stories at one of our upcoming events, helping with video editting, or by making a tax-deductible donation to help fund production.

Sign up here or email info@seamlessbayarea.org

Come celebrate our Seamless Bay Area Award winner at the Rider-First Award Party during San Francisco Transit Week!

The Rider-First Awards Party, hosted by our friends at San Francisco Transit Riders celebrates some of the people who are putting riders, and transit, first. These are people who have stepped up to make sure Muni keeps improving serve riders better, and to serve more riders. Come mix and mingle with other dedicated public transit advocates and celebrate the growing rider first movement with us!

More information on the Rider-First Party and RSVP information can be found here: https://sftransitriders.salsalabs.org/riderfirstawards/index.html

The Bay Area is working on a regional transportation funding measure that could raise $50B to $100B for transportation, on the scale of large regional transportation measures in Seattle and Los Angeles. Can we have a “Green New Deal for Transportation” to greatly improve environmental sustainability and social equity, and support more housing with fewer cars? Can the funding catalyze dramatic improvements to create a seamlessly integrated system?

Come learn about the potential ballot measure, share your thoughts on goals and principles, learn about an initiative with Seamless Bay Area and Voices for Public Transit to make the regional transportation funding support a system that more sustainable, equitable, and seamlessly connected – and how you can participate.

(Event will be held in the upstairs area of 2044 Franklin)

More information from East Bay for Everyone can be found here: https://eastbayforeveryone.org/event/regionalism-mobility-wg-meeting-with-special-guest-ian-griffiths-from-seamless/

We’re fanning out across the Bay Area Collecting stories of people’s experience with our transportation system. Through this initiative, we’re hoping to tell a broader, people-powered story of Bay Area transit and how it affects our lives.

In the coming months, we’ll be publishing these testimonials online and compiling them into a series of powerful short videos that show the immense value our system plays in the lives of those who live and work here and how improvements can benefit our region.

You can support us by helping to collect these stories at one of our upcoming events, helping with video editting, or by making a tax-deductible donation to help fund production.

Sign up here or email info@seamlessbayarea.org

How would a fast, reliable and seamlessly integrated public transit system improve life in the San Francisco Bay Area? Seamless Bay Area has been partnering with Interline to answer that very question, modeling how Seamless Bay Area’s Vision Map would make it faster and easier to get around. To learn more, come join us on July 23rd, 12:30pm at SPUR San Jose, 76 South First Street for Modelling Transformational Changes to Transit.

Speakers Include:

+ Ian Griffiths / Seamless Bay Area
+ Drew Dara-Abrams / Interline
+ Lisa Zorn / MTC
+ Diane Cowin / AECOM

We’re fanning out across the Bay Area Collecting stories of people’s experience with our transportation system. Through this initiative, we’re hoping to tell a broader, people-powered story of Bay Area transit and how it affects our lives.

In the coming months, we’ll be publishing these testimonials online and compiling them into a series of powerful short videos that show the immense value our system plays in the lives of those who live and work here and how improvements can benefit our region.

You can support us by helping to collect these stories at one of our upcoming events, helping with video editting, or by making a tax-deductible donation to help fund production. To sign up to volunteer, email julia@seamlessbayarea.org.

Register here!

Existing service offerings are not addressing climate change. Join other designers and climate resilience builders at our seventh gathering of the SDN SF Climate Working Group to examine policy and regional transportation issues. We will be joined by Arielle Fleisher, Sr. Transportation Policy Associate of SPUR, and Rachel Hollowgrass from Seamless Bay Area.

Arielle Fleisher supports SPUR's efforts to create a high-quality transportation system in the Bay Area. Previously, she worked at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, where she managed a number of bicycle and pedestrian safety education programs in support of the city's Vision Zero policy. She is the recent author of SPUR’s recent white paper, Solving the Bay Area’s Fare Policy Problem.

Rachel Hollowgrass is a user experience researcher and designer at the University of California. Her work at the Berkeley Lab includes the AmeriFluxnetwork, a community of scientists measuring ecosystem carbon, water, and energy fluxes across the Americas. She is a volunteer with Seamless Bay Area, which advocates for the customer experience at Bay Area transit agencies.

The SDN SF Climate Working Group has been meeting regularly since January. Newcomers are welcome. The goal of the Climate Working Group is to support the application of service design to address climate change through the generation of research, best practices, tools, and/or other products and projects. Read more about what we've been up to in our recent Medium article.

Light refreshments and beverages will be provided. After the meeting, we will head to a nearby restaurant to continue the conversation, so please join us!

We’ll be highlighting our work again this year during SPUR’s Transit + Design workshop. Join us as participate in the half day-long sessions and in the evening present our work during the Lightning Round, a fast-paced, lively show-and-tell of inspiring tools and research that highlights transit design successes.

Speakers for the Lightning Round Include:

+ Cheryl Brinkman / SFMTA Board of Directors
+ Janice Li / BART Board of Directors
+ Brad Williford / Our Bikes
+ Thao Nguyen / Fehr & Peers
+ Beaudry Kock / Seamless Bay Area
+ Ariel Ward / SFMTA

There is a plan in the works to upgrade Diridon Station to support connecting BART with Caltrain and other local, regional, and long-distance transit. The project team has come up with preliminary design options that differ wildly in terms of the quality of transit, walking and bicycling connections which will shape ridership for a century to come.  The project team is gathering feedback in June, so now is a great time to dive into the details and make informed comments.

Seamless Bay Area is co-sponsoring a workshop for supporters of transit, active transportation, who are interested in the details of creating great connections and urban places.  We'll have maps and diagrams, and project staff will be on hand to answer questions.

Read here for a blog post explaining the options.

RSVP Here.

San Jose City Hall Room 120

Conference room with an entrance at East Santa Clara and 4th Street.

We’re fanning out across the Bay Area Collecting stories of people’s experience with our transportation system. Through this initiative, we’re hoping to tell a broader, people-powered story of Bay Area transit and how it affects our lives.

In the coming months, we’ll be publishing these testimonials online and compiling them into a series of powerful short videos that show the immense value our system plays in the lives of those who live and work here and how improvements can benefit our region.

You can support us by helping to collect these stories at one of our upcoming events, helping with video editting, or by making a tax-deductible donation to help fund production. To sign up to volunteer, email julia@seamlessbayarea.org.

We’re fanning out across the Bay Area Collecting stories of people’s experience with our transportation system. Through this initiative, we’re hoping to tell a broader, people-powered story of Bay Area transit and how it affects our lives.

In the coming months, we’ll be publishing these testimonials online and compiling them into a series of powerful short videos that show the immense value our system plays in the lives of those who live and work here and how improvements can benefit our region.

You can support us by helping to collect these stories at one of our upcoming events, helping with video editting, or by making a tax-deductible donation to help fund production. To sign up to volunteer, email julia@seamlessbayarea.org.

Join us for our first Happy Hour of 2019!
In celebration of Verkehrsverbünde, pioneered in Hamburg, Germany, we’ll be heading out after the Going German SPUR talk to Louie's Bar (55 Stevenson St.) for a beer (and maybe a burger...haha!). We’ll meet in the SPUR lobby after the event and walk over together. Come to the SPUR event and we can walk over together, or just come for a drink at Louie’s at 7:30 PM!

Can’t find us? Text Julia (our Engagement co-lead) at 908-698-3200.

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Whether you’ve attended any Seamless Bay Area events previously or not, we hope you’ll join us for our first happy hour of 2019! Moving forward, we’ll be hosting ~quarterly happy hours rotating throughout the Bay Area with the goals of: bringing Seamless Bay Area supporters together, enabling folks to learn more about getting involved, and of course, having a good time!