Projects & Planning

Marin Transit’s biggest need is for a centralized fixed route facility for maintenance, parking, and charging of zero-emission buses. This facility will support continued investment in electric buses, improve operational efficiency, increase competition for contracted service, and reduce long term risk.

Marin Transit is working on exciting new changes to Clipper and Regional Transfers in 2025!

In 2025, Clipper will become a much more useful option for Marin Transit riders, offering new discounts, new payment options, and other rider benefits. Under a new Regional Discounted Transfer Pilot, riders that use Clipper will get a free local ride when transferring from any San Francisco Bay Area transit service; riders transferring to a regional service will get a discount.

Marin Transit is in the process of a redevelopment project on Kerner Boulevard in San Rafael, CA. In 2022 we opened a vehicle maintenance facility for our demand-response fleet. Currently, we are working on an adjacent project which will eventually be combined into an integrated parking, maintenance, and electric vehicle charging facility for our demand response fleet. 

Marin Transit is currently finalizing plans to renovate 22 high-ridership stops to improve accessibility for people with disabilities (per Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA). The bus stops were chosen from an assessment and ride-check performed in 2017. These renovations will include the addition of accessible landing pads and upgrades to passenger amenities to tie in with street design. The project, estimated to cost $1.8M, will also include the addition of three new bus stops. At E. Francisco Blvd & Medway Marin Transit will build a new bus pullout and crosswalk.

Marin Transit will make improvements to high ridership transit corridors in Marin County. The corridors are 4th Street and Lincoln Ave. in San Rafael, and South Novato Blvd. in Novato. Proposed improvements will include upgrades to bus stop amenities, enhancements to passenger information, and transit priority treatments to make transit service faster, more reliable, and more accessible to riders.

Marin Transit Connect was an on-demand, fully-accessible pilot program than ran from 2018 through June of 2023.  Marin Transit conducted a one-year evaluation in July 2019 and a final evaluation in spring of 2023.  The Final Connect Evaluation documented the program's history, changes that were made since the one year evaluation and FY 2022-23 program performance.