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Encyclopedia > Downtown Berkeley (BART station)
Downtown Berkeley Station
Rapid transit
Station platform
Station statistics
Address 2160 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Lines
Richmond – Fremont
Richmond – Millbrae
Connections AC Transit routes 1, 1R, 7, 9, 15, 18, 19, 51, 52L, 65, 67, 79; 800, 851 (All Nighter), F, FS (Transbay), Bear Transit C, H, P, R, RFS
Platforms Island
Other information
Opened January 29, 1973
Accessible
Owned by Bay Area Rapid Transit
Formerly Berkeley (1972-mid 1990's)
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2007) 11,175 exits/day[1] 4.41%

Downtown Berkeley BART is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located on Shattuck Avenue, between Allston Way and Addison Street in Downtown Berkeley, California. Signs in the station itself read simply "Berkeley," but BART schedules and maps label the station "Downtown Berkeley." The rebranding came in the mid-1990s, presumably to avoid confusion with North Berkeley and Ashby stations, both of which are also located in the City of Berkeley. “Mass Transit” redirects here. ... The Richmond - Fremont Line of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States consists of 18 metro stations from to Richmond to Fremont. ... AC Transit (in full, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District) is a regional bus agency serving parts of Alameda County and Contra Costa County in the western coastal area of the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. ... This article is about high-capacity bus transit systems. ... All-Nighter Logo, with black and yellow owl and moon crescent mascot. ... Bear Transit is the bus service operated by the University of California, Berkeley. ... Image File history File links Wheelchair_symbol. ... A westbound BART train with aerodynamic design A car in downtown San Francisco. ... A westbound BART train with aerodynamic design A car in downtown San Francisco. ... Exterior open entrance to a metro station (Tribunal station in Madrid) A metro station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as metro and subway. It is often underground or elevated. ... Downtown Berkeley in the foreground, with San Francisco seen across the Bay. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. ... North Berkeley is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located on Sacramento Street between Virginia and Delaware Streets in Berkeley, California. ...


The station consists of a mezzanine level and an underground island platform beneath it. The escalators leading to the entrance at Shattuck Avenue and Center Street are topped by a unique "mini" rotunda that covers passengers entering and leaving the station from inclement weather. View of the ground floor of the Glaspaleis from the mezzanine View of the mezzanine in the lobby of the former Capitol Cinema, Ottawa, Canada In architecture, a mezzanine or entresol is an intermediate floor between main floors of a building, and therefore typically not counted among the overall floors... An island platform on a railway describes the situation in which a single platform is placed between two tracks, serving both of them. ...


Downtown Berkeley is the second-busiest BART station outside of San Francisco, with 11,175 weekday average exits in Fiscal Year 2007. The only station outside of San Francisco with more traffic is 12th Street/Oakland City Center.


The station is popular both with students of UC Berkeley who use it to commute to the university and with non-student residents of Berkeley, many of whom commute to job centers in San Francisco and other Bay Area destinations. Additionally, it is used by patrons of events taking place at the University, such as concerts or lectures, and especially football games and other athletic events, including those sponsored by the MyBART service. For other uses, see Student (disambiguation). ... Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... San Francisco redirects here. ... Bay Area redirects here. ...


This has been the site of many BART Alert protests in response to occurrences on the political scene.[citation needed]


Service at this station began on January 29, 1973.[1] is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ...


This station is in BART District 3 and is represented by Bob Franklin.[2]


There is also a valet bike parking facility inside the station, operated by the Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition[3]. It is placed at the top of an unused stairway from the mezzanine level to the platform below. The stairs were built so that an additional entrance could be opened if needed in the future, and had never been used by passengers.


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See also

This is a list of stations on the Bay Area Rapid Transit metro system in the San Francisco Bay Area. ...

External links

  • Downtown Berkeley (BART station) is at coordinates 37°52′11″N 122°16′06″W / 37.869799, -122.268197 (Downtown Berkeley (BART station))Coordinates: 37°52′11″N 122°16′06″W / 37.869799, -122.268197 (Downtown Berkeley (BART station))
  1. ^ Yearly Exits, BART Station Profiles
  2. ^ Bay Area Rapid Transit District Biography, BART.gov, retrieved January 23, 2008
  3. ^ http://www.bikestation.org/berkeley/index.asp
Preceding station   Bay Area Rapid Transit   Following station
toward Richmond
Richmond – Millbrae
toward Millbrae
Richmond – Fremont
toward Fremont


 
 

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