Richmond–Millbrae line

The Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae line is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) line in the San Francisco Bay Area that runs from Richmond station to Millbrae station. It has 23 stations in Richmond, El Cerrito, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, Daly City, Colma, South San Francisco, San Bruno, and Millbrae. The line shares tracks with the five other mainline BART services.

Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae line
Two BART trains at Millbrae station in 2018
Overview
Locale	East Bay and San Francisco Peninsula
Termini	Richmond station Millbrae station (weekdays) Daly City station (Saturdays)
Stations	24
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Bay Area Rapid Transit
Operator(s)	San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
History
Opened	April 19, 1976 (limited service)[1] July 7, 1980 (all-day service)[1]
Last extension	June 22, 2003
Technical
Line length	36.5 miles (58.7 km)
Track gauge	5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm)
Electrification	Third rail, 1000 V DC
Operating speed	70 mph (110 km/h)[2]
Route map Richmond – Daly City/Millbrae Amtrak to Bakersfield/Seattle/Chicago Richmond Maintenance Yard Richmond Richmond Greenway I-80 El Cerrito del Norte El Cerrito Plaza Contra Costa County Alameda County North Berkeley Ohlone Greenway Downtown Berkeley SR 13 Ashby SR 24      to Antioch MacArthur southbound transfer I-580 I-980 / SR 24 19th Street Oakland northbound transfer 12th Street Oakland City Center ■■ to Warm Springs/​South Fremont ■ to Dublin/​Pleasanton I-880 West Oakland Amtrak Transbay Tube Alameda County San Francisco County I-80 ( San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge ) Embarcadero Montgomery Street Union Square/ Market Street 2021 Powell Street Civic Center / UN Plaza 16th Street Mission 24th Street Mission Glen Park | San Jose / Glen Park I-280 Balboa Park San Jose and Geneva San Francisco County San Mateo County Daly City Saturday terminus Colma Colma Maintenance Yard SR 82 (El Camino Real) South San Francisco Centennial Way Trail San Bruno transfer          to SFO Millbrae weekday terminus Caltrain to San Jose / Gilroy

The line is colored red on maps, and BART has begun to call it the Red Line[3] It runs until 9 pm on weekdays and until 7 pm on Saturdays. Saturday service terminates at Daly City station rather than Millbrae; the SFO–Millbrae line provides service to Millbrae at times that the Richmond line does not.

Service history

The Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae line was the fourth of BART's five primary rapid transit lines to open. A few trains a day began running between Richmond and Daly City in April 1976,[1] and all-day service began on July 7, 1980 after BART reduced its mandated train headway through the Transbay Tube.[1]

Citing increased ridership, BART extended weekday service on this line from 7pm to 8pm starting September 10, 2012.[4] BART further extended service until 9pm on weekdays starting September 14, 2015.[5]

SFO/Millbrae extension service

When the SFO/Millbrae extension opened on June 22, 2003, the Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae line continued to terminate at Daly City. BART extended this line to SFO and Millbrae during weekday peak hours on February 9, 2004. San Mateo County is not a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, so SamTrans funded the county's BART service. When the extension's lower-than-expected ridership caused SamTrans to accrue deficits, BART agreed to SamTrans' request to operate only the Dublin/Pleasanton line south of Daly City effective September 12, 2005.

SamTrans and BART reached an agreement in February 2007 in which SamTrans would transfer control and financial responsibility of the SFO/Millbrae extension to BART, in return for BART receiving additional fixed funding from SamTrans and other sources.[6] BART has since again increased service south of Daly City, and this line now terminates at Millbrae on weekdays and Daly City on weekends.

Richmond–Millbrae line's south-of-Daly City service

Date of change	Service south of Daly City
June 22, 2003	none[7]
February 9, 2004	Daly City–SFO/Millbrae (weekday peak hours)[8] SFO station served only by northbound trains
September 13, 2004	Daly City–SFO/Millbrae (weekday peak hours)[1]
September 12, 2005	none[9]
January 1, 2008	Daly City–Millbrae (weekdays)[10]

Stations

Station	Jurisdiction	County	Opened	Other BART lines
Richmond	Richmond	Contra Costa	January 29, 1973	Berryessa/​North San José–​Richmond
El Cerrito del Norte	El Cerrito
El Cerrito Plaza
North Berkeley	Berkeley	Alameda
Downtown Berkeley
Ashby
MacArthur	Oakland		September 11, 1972	Berryessa/​North San José–​Richmond      Antioch–​SFO/​Millbrae
19th Street Oakland
12th Street Oakland City Center
West Oakland			September 16, 1974	Antioch–​SFO/​Millbrae      Berryessa/​North San José–​Daly City      Dublin/​Pleasanton–​Daly City
Embarcadero	San Francisco		May 27, 1976
Montgomery Street			November 5, 1973
Powell Street
Civic Center/​UN Plaza
16th Street Mission
24th Street Mission
Glen Park
Balboa Park
Daly City	Daly City	San Mateo
Colma^[a]	Colma		February 24, 1996	Antioch–​SFO/​Millbrae
South San Francisco^[a]	South San Francisco		June 22, 2003
San Bruno^[a]	San Bruno
Millbrae^[a]	Millbrae			SFO–Millbrae

Notes
^a The Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae line services the Colma, South San Francisco, San Bruno, and Millbrae stations on weekdays only. The line terminates at Daly City station on Saturdays.

References

1. "BART Chronology January 1947 – March 2009" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2013.
2. "BART Sustainable Communities Operations Analysis" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
3. "February 11 schedule change impacts weekdays and Sundays" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. January 15, 2019.
4. "Richmond-Millbrae Line weekday service to be expanded starting Sept. 10" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. September 7, 2012.
5. "BART schedule change aims to provide some crowding relief" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. September 10, 2015.
6. "BART-SFO Settlement Agreement and Release of Claims" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Commission. February 14, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2009.
7. Cabanatuan, Michael (April 18, 2003). "BART to link to SFO June 22 / After many delays, latest date is firm, transit officials say". San Francisco Chronicle.
8. Cabanatuan, Michael (February 7, 2004). "BART changing schedule so more go to SFO / Peninsula ridership below expectations, needs a boost". San Francisco Chronicle.
9. Murphy, Dave (August 11, 2005). "PENINSULA / BART to airport to be cut / Weekend trains to be kept on Peninsula". San Francisco Chronicle.
10. Gordon, Rachel (December 9, 2007). "BART to raise fares, increase train frequency starting Jan. 1". San Francisco Chronicle.

External links

• Richmond – Daly City/Millbrae Schedule