NEW PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR ALL BAY AREA PUBLIC TRANSIT ON HOLD

A new system that was designed to make it easier for people to pay for mass transit in the Bay Area has been delayed indefinitely. The technology intended to allow people to ride buses, trains and ferries with a simple tap of a debit or credit card or smartphone is not ready yet, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
Anyone riding BART, Muni, AC Transit or other public transit still can use a contactless payment, but it must be with a virtual Clipper card. The MTC this summer was going to launch a system dubbed Clipper 2 that would allow transit riders to bypass the Clipper card and just tap a credit or debit card instead. The commission said it had been running a pilot program for the next-generation system on SFMTA, Golden Gate Ferry, San Francisco Bay Ferry, Caltrain and SMART but found issues that need to be resolved before the next phase of testing.
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