September 26: Meet local transit CEOs at a multimodal ride-along and happy hour

Ride-along and happy hour with Transit CEOs

This Transit Month, join BART and local transit agencies for All Aboard with Transit CEOs, a multimodal ride-along and happy hour with regional transit leaders. The ride-along is a great opportunity to meet local transit CEOs, including BART General Manager Bob Powers, and ask questions. 

All Aboard with Transit CEOs will be held on Friday, September 26. It is a multimodal trip from Oakland and San Francisco into Marin County and back. Participants are welcome to join for all or part of the journey, which will include rides on BART, Golden Gate Ferry, SMART, Marin Transit, and Golden Gate Transit. The complete trip details are listed below.  

Attendees must pay for each transit ride. For the full journey from 19th Street Oakland BART to the San Rafael Transit Center and back to Oakland, please have at least $26 loaded on your Clipper card (this is adult fare). 

Participating CEOs include: 

Bob Powers (BART)  

Seamus Murphy (San Francisco Bay Ferry) 

Nancy Whelan (Marin Transit) 

Eddy Cummins (SMART) 

Christy Wegener (LAVTA, Wheels) 

Denis Mulligan (Golden Gate Transit) 

Bill Churchill (County Connection) 

April Chan (SamTrans)  

Michelle Bouchard (Caltrain) 

All Aboard with Transit CEOs is part of the Bay Area’s annual Transit Month, a celebration of regional transportation hosted by San Francisco Transit Riders and Seamless Bay Area with support from local agencies. Transit Month toasts the many trains, buses, and ferries that connect the region and uplift its communities, economies, and cultures and is a great opportunity to explore the places transit can take you and to connect with local agencies and riders.  

The month is hallmarked by dozens of free events as well as a monthlong Ride Contest that invites participants to track their transit trips to win prizes, earn badges, and vie for top leaderboard positions. Sign up at ridecontest.com. 

 

Ride-along Trip Details 

There are two starting place options, depending on where you are coming from. 

Option 1: From the East Bay 

Meet at 19th Street/Oakland BART Station (20th Street end Station Agent booth) by 3:05 p.m. to take the 3:17 p.m. Yellow Line SFO train to Embarcadero BART station arriving at 3:30 p.m. Then walk to the San Francisco Ferry Terminal Gate C.  

Option Two: From San Francisco 

  • Meet at the San Francisco Ferry Terminal Gate C by 3:35pm and meet up with the group coming from the East Bay.  

  • Everyone takes the 3:50pm Golden Gate Ferry (grab a drink and mingle) to Larkspur arriving at 4:25pm. 

  • Walk to SMART Larkspur Station. SMART Connect micro-transit will also be onsite for those who need a ride to the SMART station. 

  • Take 5:03pm SMART train to Marin Civic Center Station arriving at 5:15pm. 

  • Take the 5:27pm Marin Transit Route 49 bus to San Rafael Transit Center arriving at 5:40pm. 

For the return trip from San Rafael Transit Center*, there are also two options, depending on your final destination.  

Option 1: To Downtown San Francisco then Oakland 

  • Take the 5:47 p.m. Golden Gate Transit Route 150 from the San Rafael Transit Center over the Golden Gate Bridge and into San Francisco.
  • To transfer to BART or Muni, folks can get off at 6:42 p.m. at Golden Gate Ave. and Polk St. and enter the Civic Center BART Station. Or riders can continue on the bus to the Salesforce Transit Center. 

  • From Civic Center BART, take the 6:53pm Red line train from Civic Center to 19th Street/Oakland to arrive at 7:10pm. 

Option 2: To El Cerrito del Norte BART 

  • Take the 5:45 p.m. Golden Gate Transit Route 580 to the East Bay and arrive at the El Cerrito del Norte BART Station at 6:23 p.m 

*If some people want to hang out in San Rafael after arriving at the San Rafael Transit Center at 5:40 p.m., they can go to one of the many spots nearby for one hour and then take Golden Gate Transit Route 150 at 6:47 p.m. into San Francisco.