Clipper Card monthly passes on Caltrain
The results of my ongoing learning experience with Caltrain and Clipper... Checking online, asking conductors, and calling on-line help never provides the whole truth. I'm given fragmented information, partially true, partially wrong. Yet I continue to chip away at that vague thing we call reality. That hyperdimensional fractal volume whose surface can never be perfectly realized, only approximated to ever-increasing resolution... Here's my understanding for how Clipper Direct works with monthly passes on Caltrain: 1. Each month you deposit via Clipper Direct at least sufficient pre-tax dollars into your "account". 2. Using the website , you can then purchase "transit products". These can be one-time or recurring orders. In my case, I have a recurring order for a monthly pass between zones 1 and 3. 3. This monthly pass will get you on the train for the first nine days of the month (at least this worked for me this month). 4. If at some point dur...