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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.
Entrance to the Berkeley BART station (bottom right) as seen shortly after the station opened in 1973. The BART Board approved the name "Berkeley" in December 1965. [6] The station opened on January 29, 1973, as part of the extension from MacArthur to Richmond. [7]
The BART Board approved the name "North Berkeley" in December 1965. [4] 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]
By September 2010, all necessary federal and state funding for the Oakland Airport Connector had been re-established, and a groundbreaking ceremony was held on October 20, 2010, featuring key administrators: BART Director Carole Ward Allen, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, State Assemblyman Sandré Swanson, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and Oakland City ...
All-Nighter, with black and yellow owl and moon crescent mascot. The All Nighter is a night bus service network in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.Portions of the service shadow the rapid transit and commuter rail services of BART and Caltrain, which are the major rail services between San Francisco, the East Bay, the Peninsula, and San Jose.
[10] [11] Eminent domain was used to take land for the parking lots, which contributed to the decline of the Black community in the area. [12] Service at Ashby station began on January 29, 1973, as part of the MacArthur to Richmond extension. [2] Uniquely in the BART system, the City of Berkeley, rather than BART, controls the air rights on the ...
Embarcadero opened as an infill station in 1976, and direct Richmond–Daly City service began operating that year. [4] The Yellow Line was extended to North Concord/ Martinez in 1995, and to Colma and Pittsburg/ Bay Point in 1996. BART's fifth route, the Blue Line, began service with a new branch to Dublin/ Pleasanton in 1997.
The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used for automated fare collection in the San Francisco Bay Area.First introduced as TransLink in 2002 by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) as a pilot program, it was rebranded in its current form on June 16, 2010. [4]