If you just want to have the experience of a cable car ride or two and then use the other vehicles at other times, you're probably going to spend less paying for individual rides (whether by clipper credit or actual cash). (Touch the card to the reader, select what you want to add, pay.)Īs Madeline mentions, the visitor passports have risen so much in price in the last few years that for many people it's cheaper to use cash (or load some cash credit onto the clipper card to be used for individual rides if you like). So you could go to a clipper machine at one of the muni stations and load a visitor passport if you wanted that product. If not, and you have cash value on the card, it will pay with that instead. When you use it to pay fares, it will use a transfer, pass or ticket for an agency if you have one loaded onto the card for that transit agency. Bart requires both scanning when entering and exiting, muni only when entering. You just hold it over the reader for about half a second until the reader makes a single beep when boarding or going in fare gates. It also tracks transfer times and any interagency transit system discounts. Maybe someone else had one left over from a trip here and gave it to the original poster.Īs Madeline mentions, it's just a way to store value (eCash) or a pass on the card. The older ones were green and said translink (I believe they still work). If it's blue and has stylized sails, then it's a clipper card. Maybe the OP was really saying someone gave them a clipper card as a gift. They do have some offices, but mostly you'd just buy stuff from the machines or maybe online. I'm not quite sure where you'd redeem it. I wasn't aware they sold gift cards and didn't see anything about it on their site, but who knows. I agree about the "gift card" for clipper sounding odd. The only big fare discount in the area for using Clipper is the Golden Gate Transit ferries system. Think of them more as a Disney ride (sadly) as this point. In July there will be long lines to board.
But cable cars are not adequate transportation. Cable cars are $7 every time you step on. Bus fare is $2.75 with a 90 minute transfer. That said, there is no benefit to a Muni Pass (given the price they've risen to) unless you plan on taking cable cars a LOT. While you can load a 7 day Muni Pass onto a Clipper, or put it on your phone, they are also available in paper with no surcharge. These days there is a small discount on most carriers for using a Clipper rather than paying cash or using a paper fare card. I got mine so long ago they were handing them out for nothing to get people to use them. It's a lot more beneficial for residents than casual tourists. You can also store various daily, monthly passes on it as well. Clipper Cards are a way to store various regional transit agencies fares on one card.
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