{"id":434028,"date":"2026-08-15T20:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434028\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T20:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T20:08:15","slug":"thousands-of-sjsu-students-get-access-to-free-public-transit-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434028\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of SJSU students get access to free public transit \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2013 More than 32,000 full and part-time San Jos\u00e9 State University students are eligible for free public transportation across a variety of Bay Area services after the expansion Saturday of the SJSU Clipper BayPass program.<\/p>\n<p>The unlimited pass gives access to rail, bus, and ferry services, including the Valley Transportation Authority, Caltrain, BART, and AC Transit for eligible students across the region, the university said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the university called the expansion a \u201cmajor investment in equitable, affordable, and sustainable transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eligible students must get their own 19-digit physical or mobile Clipper card and submit their application to the university\u2019s transportation solutions department to receive the free pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll previously SJSU issued 10 digit Clipper cards are ineligible for BayPass,\u201d said the university.<\/p>\n<p>According to the university, it is the fourth public university in the Bay Area to offer the \u201ccomprehensive transit benefit\u201d for students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a university that helps power Silicon Valley, SJSU benefits when students can move freely through the region,\u201d said the university on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sjsu.edu\/as\/departments\/transportation-solutions\/baypass\/index.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. \u201cBayPass helps make that connection more practical by giving students access to the transit network that links San Jose with the rest of the Bay Area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 More than 32,000 full and part-time San Jos\u00e9 State University students are eligible for free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[54395,840,12994,184,20705,26949,7,51811,28192,4978,10150,15,12475,8457,181,23,54396,100,14293,768,88,90,89,198,54397,200,201,1967,6994,12465],"class_list":["post-434028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-almaden-valley","tag-alum-rock","tag-alviso","tag-bay-area","tag-berryessa","tag-blossom-valley","tag-california","tag-cambrian","tag-coyote-valley","tag-downtown-san-jose","tag-east-san-jose","tag-education","tag-evergreen","tag-japantown","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-naglee-park","tag-news","tag-north-san-jose","tag-rose-garden","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-silver-creek","tag-south-bay","tag-south-san-jose","tag-transportation","tag-west-san-jose","tag-willow-glen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434028","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=434028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}