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The BART Board approved the name "Walnut Creek" in December 1965. [5] Walnut Creek station opened on May 21, 1973 as part of an extension from MacArthur to Concord. [6] The city of Walnut Creek began operating a shuttle service between the station and the downtown area on December 12, 1974. [7]
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 serves 28 stations in Antioch, Pittsburg, Bay Point, Concord, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Orinda, Oakland, San Francisco, Daly City, Colma, South San Francisco, San Bruno, and Millbrae. It is the most-used BART line, and the only line with additional trains (between SFO and Pittsburg/Bay Point) on weekdays.
Service at the station began on May 21, 1973. [2] AC Transit bus service began in Pleasant Hill on December 8, 1975, with Pleasant Hill station as a hub. [6] The service was taken over by County Connection in 1982. [7] By 2002, Pleasant Hill had the most parking spaces of any BART station, with 3,398 spaces in a garage and surface lots.
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.
The station is served by SolTrans buses including local route 3 to the Glen Cove District. Line 78 provides intercity service to the Walnut Creek BART station , while route 80 connects it to the El Cerrito del Norte BART station .
The bus station is served by SolTrans Blue Line between the Walnut Creek BART station, Benicia Industrial Park, Fairfield Transportation Center, Vacaville Transportation Center, Dixon and the Davis Mondavi Center Monday through Saturday. Yolobus route 138 at the Mondavi Center connects to the UC Davis Medical Center in Davis.
Pleasant Hill station under construction in 1970. BART construction officially began on June 19, 1964, with President Lyndon Johnson presiding over the ground-breaking ceremonies at the 4.4-mile (7.1 km) Diablo Test Track between Concord and Walnut Creek in Contra Costa County, where Parsons Brinckerhoff-Tudor-Bechtel would test out the system's new technologies and unconventional design choices.