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As of 2024, BART anticipates soliciting a developer between 2029 and 2033 for TOD to replace existing surface parking lots at the station. [40] Some Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) services are planned to be expanded to Union City, with a new platform on the Oakland Subdivision adjacent to the BART station.
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 Oakland International Airport.
With average weekday ridership around 165,000 passengers in June 2024, BART is the fifth busiest rapid transit system in the United States. [1] [2] BART is administered by the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a special district government agency formed by Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco counties.
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.
BART and the City of Oakland began planning in 1993 for transit-oriented development (TOD) to replace the surface parking lot east of the station. [15] Construction of a 450-space BART parking garage at the southern end of the site began in mid-2011; it opened on September 15, 2014.
In 2020, BART started a project to add faregates to elevators at these stations. The new faregate on the platform at Bay Fair was installed in July 2021. [ 8 ] As of 2024 [update] , BART anticipates soliciting a developer by 2028 for transit-oriented development to replace surface parking lots at the station.
The $3 fee is waived if the card is registered for Autoload at the time of purchase (in which case it cannot go negative). [42] There is no fee to transfer plastic Clipper cards to mobile wallets. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The $3 fee for new virtual cards in mobile wallets was waived for the first six months following launch [ 43 ] but came into effect on ...
Soon after opening, the agency began planning an additional 1,600 parking space facility north of the station site. [13] In October 2018, BART announced plans for a $16.4 million, 800-space lot east of the station, which would open in 2020. [14] In November 2019, the BART board approved a $9.9 million contract for an 850-space lot. [15]