![]() (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. Visitors do not need to get a clipper card.Clipper Cards are a way to store various regional transit agencies fares on one card. Locals use a clipper card which is great for us folks as we have to use MUNI 20 or more days a year. One does need to show them on a cable car. One can enter and exit via any door on a street car or bus. ![]() With a paper passport or a mobile passport one does not need to enter the bus at the front and show it to the driver. If you don't have a phone you can use paper muni passports and purchase them at the SFO info center or at other locations in SF. The SF forum top questions have detailed info on which bus to use to see the attractions if you board from Union Square, Fisherman's wharf and the Marina. A single ride ticket is valid for 90 minutes so one could say go to Fisherman's wharf hang out for an hour or so and use the same ticket to get back to say union square or go to your next destination MUNI covers all Street cars, Buses and the famous Cable Cars in SF. ![]() But you could do a 3 day passport and use single ride tickets for day 4 and don't ride the cable car on day 4. Well the cable cars are the most expensive at 7 per ride (so if you do a round trip it is 14 dollars) and the passport helps. You can activate the Muni Passport on the day you start using MUNI and it is valid for 1,3, 7 days from then what if one is staying in SF for 4 days. In other words each passenger does not need their own phone or app. We have relatives who visit us and we use our Clipper cards and have our relatives use MUNI passport or the single ride ticket to ride MUNI IF you have a iphone or android phone with a data plan, download the MUNI app and you can purchase you MUNI passport (for the entire family) or even a single ride ticket for 1,2, or more people via one iphone app. It is 2016 in the Bay Area and the best way to use SF MUNI or the MUNI as we locals call it is to get a MUNI Passport if you are in SF for 1 to 7 days. ![]()
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