Translink cardholders will soon be able to use the electronic fare system to pay for rides on Caltrain, although SamTrans passengers will have to wait longer. Caltrain has already installed Translink ...

BART quietly became the latest Bay Area transit operator to accept the universal TransLink fare card, a major milestone for the project that has been hampered by years of delay but now can be used on ...

Bay Area transportation officials reported Monday that the testing of the regional TransLink fare card on BART appears to have had no major glitches, providing a shot of good news for a project that ...

It's good news for transit riders tired of paying separate fares for the region's patchwork of transit systems. One small problem – Caltrain says that isn’t true. And TransLink has yanked the posting ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a sampling of transportation writer Erik N. Nelson’s Capricious Commuter blog on getting around the Bay Area. Read more and post comments at InsideBayArea.com. Much like Steve ...

Someday, in the not-too-distant future, a rider could use one smart card to travel across some 26 mass transit systems in northern California. The system, TransLink, billed as the first dual interface ...

TransLink, the oft-delayed regional one-stop transit card, is going through a re-branding process. With the universal card expected to pass a number of major milestones this year, including its ...

The TransLink system functions, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission has determined after a six-month test run that concluded Jan. 15. Now the task is to see if the system will work financially.

Blogger Akit, a frequent commentator on local affairs, had an (unpaid) day off thanks to budget cuts for state education, and while in downtown San Francisco dropped by the Montgomery Muni station in ...

In London, they have the Oyster. In Hong Kong, there is the Octopus. In San Francisco, there's no sea creature. With a more generic name, TransLink, which has attempted for the last 15 years to create ...

TransLink appears poised to finally live up to the scenario first imagined 16-years ago of providing San Francisco Bay transit riders one card that would be good on all 24 agencies serving the area.