{"id":432022,"date":"2026-08-13T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432022\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:42:08","slug":"san-jose-state-students-get-unlimited-bay-area-transit-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432022\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose State students get unlimited Bay Area transit \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting to campus, internships and jobs is about to become more affordable for San Jose State University students, with unlimited transit rides across the Bay Area beginning Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Students began signing up Thursday for the Clipper BayPass, which gives them access to VTA, BART, AC Transit and Caltrain, as well as participating rail and ferry services.<\/p>\n<p>University and transit leaders said the program is aimed at increasing transportation equity for San Jose State&#8217;s 32,000 students while opening up more internship and employment opportunities and giving students a chance to explore all nine Bay Area counties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Internships these days are income, and that income is experience,&#8221; Associated Students President Ma&#8217;Kayla Akin said, adding that the program could help students gain experience before entering the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The Clipper BayPass is available to full- and part-time students and is valid throughout the nine-county Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p>While students will not pay for individual rides through the program, they agreed to contribute about $49 per year in student fees toward it.<\/p>\n<p>University leaders said they will work to build support and increase enrollment and usage as they consider the program&#8217;s future and the possibility of expanding it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getting to campus, internships and jobs is about to become more affordable for San Jose State University students,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,996,1967],"class_list":["post-432022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-state","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}