El Cerrito Plaza station

El Cerrito Plaza
Bay Area Rapid Transit
Platforms at El Cerrito Plaza station in 2017
Location 6699 Fairmount Avenue
El Cerrito, California
Coordinates 37°54′10″N 122°17′56″W / 37.902694°N 122.298968°W / 37.902694; -122.298968Coordinates: 37°54′10″N 122°17′56″W / 37.902694°N 122.298968°W / 37.902694; -122.298968
Owned by Bay Area Rapid Transit
Line(s) BART R-Line
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections AC Transit: 71, 72, 72M, 79, 80, 667, 668, 675, 684, G
Bear Transit: RFS
Construction
Parking 761 spaces
Bicycle facilities 30 lockers
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened January 29, 1973[1]
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2016) 5,131 exits/day[2]
Services
Preceding station   Bay Area Rapid Transit   Following station
toward Millbrae (Daly City on Saturdays)
Richmond–​Daly City/​Millbrae
toward Richmond
Richmond–​Warm Springs/South Fremont

El Cerrito Plaza is one of two elevated BART stations located in El Cerrito, California. It primarily serves southern El Cerrito, northern Albany, and Kensington, along with nearby areas of Berkeley and Richmond. Outside the station is the El Cerrito Plaza shopping center. Nearly identical in form to El Cerrito del Norte station, El Cerrito Plaza station has two side platforms serving the line's two elevated tracks, with a fare lobby underneath.

El Cerrito station opened on January 29, 1973.[1] UC Berkeley music professor Jorge Liderman committed suicide at the station on February 3, 2008.[3]

Bus connections

AC Transit buses at the station

Busways on both sides of the station serve a number of AC Transit bus routes:[4]

  • Local: 71, 72, 72M, 79, 80
  • Transbay: G
  • School: 667, 668, 675, 684

The busways are also used by the Bear Transit RFS route.[4] Several other AC Transit routes - including rapid route 72R, Transbay routes L and LC, and All Nighter route 800 - run on San Pablo Avenue 0.25 miles (0.40 km) to the west.

References

  1. 1 2 "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. ↑ Bay Area Rapid Transit District. "Monthly Ridership Reports". Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  3. ↑ Kosman, Joshua (February 4, 2008). "Composer Liderman dies in apparent suicide". San Francisco Chronicle.
  4. 1 2 "Transit Stops: El Cerrito Plaza Station" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Commission. March 29, 2017.

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