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The tunnel bores through the Berkeley Hills east of Berkeley and Oakland a distance of 3.1 miles (5.0 km) [3] through a variety of rock strata, most of which are soft and porous. The earthquake-active Hayward Fault bisects the tunnel about 900 feet (270 m) inside the west portal (Oakland side).
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.
Like most underground BART stations, Downtown Berkeley has two levels: a mezzanine containing the faregates and an island platform with two tracks. Access to the station is provided by five street-level entrances on Shattuck Avenue , with two at Addison Street and Allston Way each and one at the southwest corner of Shattuck Avenue and Center ...
BART is a major provider of regional and transbay transit (seen here is a train approaching Civic Center/UN Plaza station) Interstate 80 is a major urban freeway in the Bay Area (seen here in Berkeley, California, as the Eastshore Freeway).
The station site is approximately at the historic location of Berkeley Branch Railroad's Newbury station, which opened after 1876. [6] The BART Board approved the name "Ashby Place" in December 1965. [7] The three stations in Berkeley were originally planned to be elevated, but the City of Berkeley paid extra tax to have them built underground.
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.
In California, 47.7% of the state’s thousands of bridges carry the “fair” rating. About 6.2% of California’s bridges were rated as in “poor” condition as of 2023. The data does not ...
An earthquake early warning system called ShakeAlert, sponsored by the United States Geological Survey, was instituted in 2012 with the help of UC Berkeley seismologists who linked BART to 200 stations of the California Integrated Seismic Network. These electronic signals travel much faster than seismic waves.