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Berkeley was an original stop on the Capitol Corridor (originally named Capitols) when that service began in late 1991. San Joaquins service at Berkeley ended in 1993 because of low ridership, but trains continue to pass through the station without stopping. The station building was designated a Berkeley Landmark in 2001.
The station was designed by Maher & Martens of San Francisco in collaboration with Parsons Brinckerhoff, Tudor Construction, and Bechtel. [8] In 1995, BART changed the name of the station from "Berkeley" to "Downtown Berkeley" in an effort to minimize confusion between this station and North Berkeley. [citation needed]
Berkeley station may refer to: Berkeley station (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway), a former train station in Berkeley, California;
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Berkeley has one of the highest rates of bicycle and pedestrian commuting in the nation. Berkeley is the safest city of its size in California for pedestrians and cyclists, considering the number of injuries per pedestrian and cyclist, rather than per capita. [99] A street closed off into two dead ends by traffic calming barriers.
In 1977, Reverend Heng Sure and his companion, Heng Chau (formerly Marty Verhoeven), began the Three Steps, One Bow pilgrimage from South Pasadena to Ukiah, California. [1] [2] [6] [7] [14] [16] This journey, dedicated to world peace, [12] [13] involved taking three steps followed by a full prostration to the ground, covering approximately one mile per day and lasting two years and nine months.
The station building was then converted to a restaurant [4] called the Santa Fe Bar and Grill [5] and functioned in that capacity until 2000. [2] In 2001, it was purchased by the Berkeley Montessori School and redeveloped into a private school. [2] That same year, the building was designated a City of Berkeley Landmark.
In 1972, the name "Berkeley Station" was revived as the name of the BART stop in downtown Berkeley, but was changed to "Downtown Berkeley" in the 1990s. The Amtrak stop adjacent to the old West Berkeley depot at Third and University is currently called "Berkeley Station". The depot itself survives, but is currently vacant.