“It’s faster, but I could see how people who don’t use BART often might not want to have to buy one.”Īlthough the sale of paper tickets has been discontinued, BART still allows riders to enter and exit using paper tickets they already had. “I noticed a while back that the options for paper tickets were limited, so I eventually got one of the cards,” said Duran, 22. Moni Duran of El Cerrito, who works in the evenings as a security guard in Oakland, said she had seen the transition coming for a while now. Additionally, the Pittsburg Center and Antioch stations, which opened in May 2018, have only ever sold Clipper cards. The pandemic prompted BART to speed up the process. This transition began August 2019 when four stations stopped selling paper tickets and has expanded across the entire system. According to the release, BART had transitioned all stations as of last week. ( “Richmond, California BART station” by The West End on Flickr under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license)īay Area Rapid Transit announced a major move in contactless payment in a press release on Monday, part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to give riders a safer experience during the pandemic.Īll BART fare machines now sell Clipper cards only and will no longer offer paper tickets. All BART stations, including this one in Richmond, have stopped selling paper tickets.
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