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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.
The system is integrated into BART's fare system. The line opened for revenue service on November 22, 2014, [ 4 ] replacing the AirBART shuttle bus service that had operated since July 1, 1977. Currently operating between two terminal stations, the system includes provisions for an intermediate third station ( Doolittle station ) that may be ...
The farebox recovery ratio (also called fare recovery ratio, fare recovery rate or other terms) of a passenger transportation system is the fraction of operating expenses which are met by the fares paid by passengers. It is computed by dividing the system's total fare revenue by its total operating expenses. [1]
[9]: 308 The San Francisco Airport Commission built the station for BART at a cost of $200 million, with BART paying $2.5 million in rent each year to use the station. [10] The AirTrain system opened on February 24, 2003, [11] with BART service to SFIA station beginning on June 22, 2003. [12]
It is among the least-used stations on the BART system, with 719 daily boardings in June 2024. [4] The station opened on November 22, 2014. [3] Unlike the former AirBART shuttle bus system it replaced, the Oakland Airport Connector system is fully integrated into the BART fare system, including the acceptance of Clipper cards.
BART has several fares where the sum of the fares A–P + P–B is less than the direct fare A–B. The most dramatic is Fremont to Dublin/Pleasanton . The direct fare (paid by Clipper card , effective January 1, 2018 thru December 31, 2019) is $4.95; however if one exits and re-enters at Bay Fair (where a transfer is required anyway), the fare ...
That's a slight improvement from the beginning of the year: BART in January serviced almost 36% of its January 2020 total, and February saw around 39% of its ridership from the same month in 2020 ...
In 2020, BART started a project to add faregates to elevators at these stations. The new faregate in the BART lobby at Coliseum was installed in August 2020. [86] BART installed second-generation fare gates for the Oakland Airport Connector from September 15–20, 2024, and for the main station from October 27 to November 1. [87]