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BART has 50 stations: 19 on the surface, 15 elevated, and 16 underground (i.e. subway). [ 3 ] 22 stations are in Alameda County, 12 are in Contra Costa, and 8 are in San Francisco. 6 stations are in San Mateo County and 2 are in Santa Clara County ; those counties are not part of the BART special district, but contribute to operations funding.
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.
El Cerrito Plaza station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in El Cerrito, California, located adjacent to the El Cerrito Plaza shopping center. It primarily serves southern El Cerrito, northern Albany , and Kensington , along with nearby portions of Berkeley and Richmond .
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (occasionally abbreviated in early years to BARTD) was created in 1957 [3] to provide a transit alternative between suburbs in the East Bay and job centers in San Francisco's Financial District as well as (to a lesser extent) those in Downtown Oakland and Downtown Berkeley.
Richmond station (officially the Richmond Transit Center) is an Amtrak intercity rail and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located in downtown Richmond, California. Richmond is the north terminus of BART service on the Orange Line and Red Line ; it is a stop for Amtrak's Capitol Corridor , San Joaquins , and California Zephyr routes.
It is the only BART station served by both VTA and AC Transit, and the only VTA light rail station served by AC Transit. The six-story, 1,631 space paid parking garage is located east of the BART building. [15] [17] A paid 185-space indoor bike parking structure is located underneath the footbridge; free bike racks are dispersed around the ...
The Oakland Airport Connector is an automated guideway transit (AGT) system operated by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) between BART's Coliseum station and Oakland International Airport station. The line is colored on BART maps as the Beige Line. [3] The system is integrated into BART's fare system.
Service at the station began on January 29, 1973. [5] Pursuant to a law passed by the state of California in 2018, the City of Berkeley and BART plan to replace the surface parking lots with transit-oriented housing. [6] The station site is only partially suited for housing due to the presence of the tracks and station box diagonally underneath.