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, 12, 18, 25, 49, 51B, 52, 65, 67, 88 (local); 800, 851 (All Nighter); F, FS* (Transbay) Bear Transit: C, H, P, R, RFS * - Route operates weekdays only
Platforms	Island
Other information
Opened	January 29, 1973
Accessible
Owned by	Bay Area Rapid Transit
Formerly	Berkeley (1972-mid-1990s)
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2010)	11,317 exits/day[1]  5.84%
Services
Preceding station   Bay Area Rapid Transit   Following station North Berkeley toward Richmond Richmond – Millbrae Ashby toward Millbrae Richmond – Fremont Ashby toward Fremont

Entrance to the Berkeley BART station (bottom right) as seen shortly after the station opened in 1973.

Downtown Berkeley 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, per se the original name of the station. BART officials renamed it 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.

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 icosikaitetragonal rotunda that covers passengers entering and leaving the station from inclement weather.

Downtown Berkeley is the second-busiest BART station outside of San Francisco, with 11,814 weekday average exits in Fiscal Year 2008. 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.

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

Service at this station began on January 29, 1973.^[2]

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

There is also a valet bike parking facility outside the station at street level and is operated by Alameda Bicycle. It used to be 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.

See also

• List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

References

1. ^ "BART Fiscal Year Weekday Average Exits". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). http://www.bart.gov/docs/WeekdayExits.pdf. Retrieved 28 July 2010. 
2. ^ "BART CHRONOLOGY" (PDF). http://www.bart.gov/docs/BARThistory.pdf. 
3. ^ Bay Area Rapid Transit District Biography, BART.gov, retrieved January 23, 2008

External links

• BART - Downtown Berkeley Station Overview

Coordinates: 37°52′11″N 122°16′06″W / 37.869799°N 122.268197°W / 37.869799; -122.268197