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Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.BART serves 50 stations along six routes and 131 miles (211 kilometers) of track, including eBART, a 9-mile (14 km) spur line running to Antioch, and Oakland Airport Connector, a 3-mile (4.8 km) automated guideway transit line serving San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport.
The services were mainly identified on maps, schedules, and station signage by the names of their termini. However, the new fleet displays line colors more prominently, and BART has begun to use color names in press releases and GTFS data. [7] [8] In 2022, BART formally announced on Twitter they were using colors on the line map and officially. [9]
It is among the least-used stations on the BART system, with 719 daily boardings in June 2024. [4] The station opened on November 22, 2014. [3] Unlike the former AirBART shuttle bus system it replaced, the Oakland Airport Connector system is fully integrated into the BART fare system, including the acceptance of Clipper cards.
The Red Line was the fourth of BART's five primary rapid transit lines to open. A few trains a day began running between Richmond and Daly City in April 1976, and all-day service began on July 7, 1980, after BART reduced train spacing through the Transbay Tube.
BART resumed accepting new cars in February 2022. [66] As of July 23, 2024, BART has received 775 D and E cars, of which 769 have been certified for service and 400 are required for service. All 55 trains in service use the new cars. [67] BART has exclusively run Fleet of the Future trains on its base schedule since September 11, 2023.
Marina Pitofsky, Eric Lagatta, Riley Beggin, Francesca Chambers, Michael Collins, Savannah Kuchar, Sudiksha Kochi and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY
The elevated station is a transfer point to the AirTrain people mover system at Garage G/BART station. The station opened for AirTrain service in February 2003, with BART service beginning that June. After several service changes between 2003 and 2022, the station is served by the Yellow Line at all operating hours and the Red Line until 9 pm.
On July 1, 1977, BART began a shuttle bus service called AirBART that ran to the airport terminals from street level at Coliseum station (thereafter named Coliseum/Oakland Airport). The shuttle ride took ten minutes and cost 50 cents. [13] AirBART was a joint project of BART and the Port of Oakland, which owns and operates the airport. [14] [15]