Bay Area Celebrates All Aboard Transit Day

Bay Area transit agencies joined with MTC and the Bay Area Air District on Tuesday to celebrate All Aboard Bay Area Transit Day at the downtown San Francisco Ferry Terminal. 

Themes included the continuing growth of post-pandemic ridership, the importance of transit’s support for the Bay Area economy;  speed, safety, comfort and convenience improvements; and the connection between transit use and clean air — a timely reminder with May marking the start of the 2025 summer smog season.

And Bay Area transit agencies are riding a wave of increasing ridership in the first three months of 2025 that was felt across the region. 

Many agencies posted double digit gains in ridership compared with the same period last year. Caltrain led the charge with a 50% ridership increase over the first three months of 2025 fueled largely by the agency’s switch to an all-electric service. The nine agencies reporting gains handled a combined total of 3.24 million more trips from January through March compared with the same period in 2024.

The Bay Area’s transit agencies, working with MTC, are prioritizing collaboration to make the rider experience more seamless. The goal is to make transit more connected, more efficient, and more user friendly. These efforts include a regional mapping and wayfinding project to provide a unified look and feel for maps and directional signs. Transit agencies have also been working together to identify opportunities to reduce total travel times across services and coordinate schedule changes.

MTC and Bay Area transit agencies have a joint website to share the various projects they are coordinating on to improve transit. Learn more at allaboardbayarea.com