North Berkeley station
The circular headhouse of North Berkeley station | |||||||||||||||
Location |
1750 Sacramento Street Berkeley, California | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°52′26″N 122°16′57″W / 37.873915°N 122.282552°WCoordinates: 37°52′26″N 122°16′57″W / 37.873915°N 122.282552°W | ||||||||||||||
Owned by | Bay Area Rapid Transit | ||||||||||||||
Line(s) | BART R-Line | ||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Connections |
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Construction | |||||||||||||||
Parking | 822 spaces | ||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 58 Lockers | ||||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
Opened | January 29, 1973 | ||||||||||||||
Traffic | |||||||||||||||
Passengers (FY 2016) | 4,865 exits/day[1] | ||||||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||||||
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North Berkeley is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station located on Sacramento Street in the North Berkeley region of Berkeley, California. The station is bounded by Virginia, Sacramento, Delaware, and Acton streets in a residential area north of University Avenue.
History
The site was originally an open area across which the Key System constructed its Westbrae streetcar line, subsequently given the letter designation "G". The tracks ran diagonally across the property in virtually the same alignment as today's underground BART tracks. Homes began to be constructed along the periphery of the site, and after the G-Westbrae line was closed in 1941, filled in most of the rest of it. All of these were demolished in the 1960s to make way for construction of the North Berkeley Station.
Service at this station began on January 29, 1973.[2]
Station layout
G | Street Level | Exits/Entrances |
M | Mezzanine | One-way faregates, ticket machines, station agent |
P Platform level |
Northbound | ← Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae toward Richmond (El Cerrito Plaza) ← Richmond–Warm Springs/South Fremont toward Richmond (El Cerrito Plaza) |
Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
Southbound | → Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae toward Daly City or Millbrae (Downtown Berkeley) → → Richmond–Warm Springs/South Fremont toward Warm Springs (Downtown Berkeley) → |
The main station entrance sits within a circular building at the center of a parking lot, while an elevator between the surface and the platform is located at the parking lot's Sacramento Street edge.
See also
References
- ↑ Bay Area Rapid Transit District. "Monthly Ridership Reports". Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ↑ "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.