List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a heavy rail rapid transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States. With average weekday ridership around 405,000 passengers in February 2020, 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.
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Mondays through Saturdays, BART trains run on five principal routes; four are transbay routes connecting San Francisco to Oakland and various destinations in the East Bay, while the fifth, the Berryessa/North San José–Richmond line, runs exclusively in the East Bay. Two of the five routes do not run on nights and weekends, and one is truncated on Saturdays, but all stations remain accessible by transfers via other routes. In September 1972 BART's first route opened: Fremont to MacArthur, extended to Richmond in January 1973. Concord to MacArthur started in May 1973 and Montgomery Street to Daly City began in November 1973. The original system was completed in September 1974 when trains first carried passengers through the underwater Transbay Tube. BART's three routes then were Concord–Daly City, Fremont—Daly City and Richmond–Fremont.
The Concord-Daly City line was extended to North Concord/Martinez in 1995 and to Colma and Pittsburg/Bay Point in 1996. BART's fifth route, the Dublin/Pleasanton–Daly City line, began when the branch to Dublin/Pleasanton opened in 1997. The San Mateo County line was extended south from Colma to San Francisco International Airport and Millbrae in 2003.[3] BART passengers can reach Oakland International Airport on BART's new automated guideway transit (AGT) system, the Coliseum–Oakland International Airport line.[4][5] The Richmond-Fremont and Fremont-Daly City lines were later extended to Warm Springs/South Fremont in 2017, and then further to Berryessa/North San José in 2020. An extension of BART using diesel multiple unit technology, called BART to Antioch but also known during construction as eBART, opened to Antioch in 2018.[6][7][8]
BART has 50 stations: 20 on the surface, 15 elevated, and 15 underground (i.e. subway).[9] 22 stations are in Alameda County, 12 are in Contra Costa, and 8 are in San Francisco. 6 stations are in San Mateo County and 2 are in Santa Clara County, though neither county is part of the BART special district. Berryessa/North San José is the southernmost station and Pittsburg/Bay Point is the northernmost. As of February 2020, Montgomery Street has the highest ridership and Oakland International Airport has the lowest.[1]
Services
BART operates six named and interlined heavy rail services plus one separate automated guideway line. Five of the heavy rail services run through Oakland, and all of those but the Richmond–Warm Springs/South Fremont line and the SFO–Millbrae shuttle go through the Transbay Tube to San Francisco. All six services run on weekdays until the end of the afternoon rush hour; evenings (after about 7:00 pm), nights (after about 9:00 pm), and Sundays have as few as three services operating. Three of the services change terminals at certain times so that all stations are served during all service hours.[10] The eastern segment of the Antioch–SFO/Millbrae line (between Antioch and the transfer platform east of Pittsburg/Bay Point) uses different rolling stock and is separated from the rest of the line.
Unlike most other rapid transit and rail systems around the world, BART lines are not primarily referred to by shorthand designations or their color names (although the colors used on maps have been constant since 1980). The services are 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.[11][12]
| Route name | Color | First service | Service times | |
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| Berryessa/North San José–Richmond | Orange | September 11, 1972 | Operates during all service hours. | |
| Antioch–SFO/Millbrae | Yellow | May 21, 1973 | Through-routed with the SFO–Millbrae line on Sundays. | |
| Berryessa/North San José–Daly City | Green | November 16, 1974 | No evening or Sunday service. | |
| Richmond–Millbrae | Red | April 19, 1976 | Terminates at Millbrae on weekdays and at Daly City on Saturdays; no evening or Sunday service. | |
| Dublin/Pleasanton–Daly City | Blue | May 10, 1997 | Operates during all service hours. Some Sunday service terminates at Montgomery Street station. | |
| SFO–Millbrae | Purple | February 11, 2019 | Through-routed with the Antioch–SFO/Millbrae line on Sundays. | |
| Coliseum–Oakland International Airport | Beige | November 22, 2014 | Operates during all service hours. |
Stations
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BART has 50 passenger stations,[13] of which 47 are high-platform rapid transit stations. Oakland International Airport is served by the Oakland Airport Connector, which uses cable-hauled automated guideway transit (AGT) rolling stock; Coliseum has separate platforms for rapid transit trains and AGT trains. Antioch and Pittsburg Center have low platforms for use with the diesel multiple unit (DMU) trains used on that section of the line. A transfer platform east of Pittsburg/Bay Point, which does not have street access and is not designated as a unique station, provides cross-platform transfers between the rapid transit and DMU sections of the line.
Seven stations are designated as transfer points between services; timed cross-platform transfers are available between the Berryessa/North San José–Richmond and Antioch–SFO/Millbrae lines at MacArthur (southbound) and 19th Street Oakland (northbound). Nine stations are the terminal of one or more services. (Two of these terminal stations - Coliseum and San Francisco International Airport - are also transfer stations.) Eight stations have connections available to other rail services - Amtrak, Caltrain, and Muni Metro. All stations are served during all operating hours.
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Future stations
The four-station Phase II of the Silicon Valley BART extension will add underground stations at 28th Street/Little Portugal, Downtown San José, and Diridon in San José, plus the surface-level Santa Clara station; it is planned to open in 2029 or 2030. An infill station on the Warm Springs extension at Irvington is planned to open in 2026. Two additional infill stations–the surface-level Calaveras on the Silicon Valley extension and the elevated Doolittle on the Oakland Airport Connector–are proposed but not yet funded or scheduled. Several of these future stations connect with other rail services in the South Bay region, including Altamont Corridor Express (
), which does not yet have a connection with BART.
References
- "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2020.
- "Transit Ridership Report: Fourth Quarter 2019" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. February 27, 2020 – via Ridership Report page.
- "Celebrating 40 Years of Service 1972 • 2012 Forty BART Achievements Over the Years" (PDF). Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). 2012. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- "BART to OAK service opens in time for Thanksgiving travel". Bay Area Rapid Transit. November 21, 2014. Retrieved 2014-11-22.
- "Airport Connections Guide". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-02.
- https://www.bart.gov/about/projects/ecc/faq
- https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-heads-out-to-Antioch-on-a-different-kind-of-12941991.php
- https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/26/antioch-bart-extension-rolls-with-rave-reviews-on-first-day-of-service/
- "System Facts". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). 2013. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
- "Schedules". Bay Area Rapid Transit District. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
- "New Train Car Project". Bay Area Rapid Transit District. Retrieved January 29, 2018.
- "February 11 schedule change impacts weekdays and Sundays" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. January 15, 2019.
- "Stations". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
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