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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.
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.
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (occasionally abbreviated in early years to BARTD) was created in 1957 [3] to provide a transit alternative between suburbs in the East Bay and job centers in San Francisco's Financial District as well as (to a lesser extent) those in Downtown Oakland and Downtown Berkeley.
For example, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or Metro — which runs buses and trains within county borders but doesn’t venture to Orange County or the Inland ...
Los Angeles Metro Rail has been extended significantly since it started service in 1990, and several further extensions are either in the works or being considered. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 61,981,300 or about 208,300 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024.
The BART board voted to construct the canopy in January 2014; it was completed in March 2015 and includes real-time train arrival information screens at street level. [32] [33] The canopy reduced escalator downtime by one-third, prompting the installation of similar canopies at downtown San Francisco stations beginning in 2017. [34]
California has long been known for its car-centric culture. However, in recent decades, there's been a major effort to bolster public transit throughout the state. In LA, the Los Angeles Metro ...
BART resumed accepting new cars in February 2022. [66] As of July 23, 2024, BART has received 775 D and E cars, of which 769 have been certified for service and 400 are required for service. All 55 trains in service use the new cars. [67] BART has exclusively run Fleet of the Future trains on its base schedule since September 11, 2023.