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The Orange Line is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) line in the San Francisco Bay Area that runs between Berryessa/North San José station and Richmond station.It has 21 stations in San Jose, Milpitas, Fremont, Union City, Hayward, San Leandro, Oakland, Berkeley, El Cerrito, and Richmond.
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 Silicon Valley BART extension (officially VTA's BART Silicon Valley Extension Program, [1] commonly known as BART Silicon Valley) is an ongoing effort to expand the Green and Orange Line service by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) into Santa Clara County via the East Bay from its former terminus at the Fremont station in Alameda County.
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.
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.
Transit advocacy groups in the Bay Area, such as SPUR, [40] have long promoted larger-scale expansion of the BART system through various capital projects - one identified as a long-term goal in the Metro Vision is the construction of a second, four-bore rail tunnel under San Francisco Bay, increasing connectivity and capacity of the system.
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 station was designed by Maher & Martens of San Francisco in collaboration with Parsons Brinckerhoff , Tudor Construction , and Bechtel .
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).