El Cerrito Plaza station
El Cerrito Plaza | |||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
Parking | 761 spaces | ||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 30 lockers | ||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
Architect | DeMars & Wells[1] | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
Opened | January 29, 1973[2] | ||||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||||
2024 | 2,044 (weekday average)[3] | ||||||||||||||
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El Cerrito Plaza station is a
History
The BART Board approved the name "El Cerrito Plaza" in December 1965.[4] The station opened on January 29, 1973.[2] As with El Cerrito del Norte station, the escalator walls feature tile mosaics by Alfonso Pardiñas.[5] UC Berkeley music professor Jorge Liderman committed suicide at the station on February 3, 2008.[6]
Thirteen BART stations, including El Cerrito Plaza, did not originally have faregates for passengers using the elevator. In 2020, BART started a project to add faregates to elevators at these stations. Two new faregates at El Cerrito Plaza installed in May 2022.[7]
Bus connections
Busways on both sides of the station serve a number of AC Transit bus routes:[8]
The busways are also used by the
References
- OCLC 85623396.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2024.
- ^ "Names Approved for 38 Rapid Transit Stations Around Bay". Oakland Tribune. December 10, 1965. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Weinstein, Dave. "How BART got ART". CA-Modern. Eichler Network. p. 6.
- ^ Kosman, Joshua (February 4, 2008). "Composer Liderman dies in apparent suicide". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ "New Fare Gates & Station Hardening". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. July 2023. Archived from the original on September 4, 2023.
- ^ a b "Transit Stops: El Cerrito Plaza Station" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Commission. March 29, 2017.
External links
Media related to El Cerrito Plaza station at Wikimedia Commons