This week, my attention was drawn to a Daily Journal article titled “Regional transit pass now arriving.” As a longtime commuter on various forms of mass transit in the Bay Area — Caltrain, VTA light rail and various county buses — I learned to assemble the pieces of a mass transit route taking me from home to work and back, something complicated by the fact that throughout nearly the entirety of my career, I lived in one county and worked in another.

Finally, I had to learn the intricacies of the various fare systems, which, back then, were nearly all separate.

Today, paying for rides has been simplified through the use of a Clipper card — either a physical card or a smartphone app — that you preload with funds to be drawn upon when you ride any of the 27 transit systems throughout th

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