Concord station (BART)

Concord station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in Concord, California. The station is located between the downtown business district to the west and residential neighborhoods to the east. Concord station has a single elevated island platform.

Concord
A northbound train leaving Concord station in February 2020
General information
Location1451 Oakland Avenue
Concord, California
Coordinates37.973745°N 122.029127°W / 37.973745; -122.029127
Owned bySan Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Line(s)BART C-Line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections
Construction
Structure typeElevated
Parking2,367 spaces
Bicycle facilities40 lockers
AccessibleYes
ArchitectGwathmey, Sellier & Crosby
Joseph Esherick & Associates[1]
History
OpenedMay 21, 1973 (1973-05-21)[2]
Passengers
20232,551 (weekday average)[3]
Services
Preceding station Bay Area Rapid Transit Following station
Pleasant Hill/​Contra Costa Centre
toward San Francisco International Airport or Millbrae
 Yellow Line North Concord/​Martinez
toward Antioch via Pittsburg/​Bay Point
Location

History

The station opened as the eastern terminus station of the BART system on May 21, 1973. The station remained a terminus until the line was extended to North Concord/Martinez station in December 1995 and to Pittsburg/Bay Point station a year later.[2]

A water feature at the station, installed by Stephen De Staebler in 1971 or 1972, was removed in the 1990s.[4]

Thirteen BART stations, including Concord, did not originally have faregates for passengers using the elevator. In 2020, BART started a project to add faregates to elevators at these stations. The new faregate in the lobby area of Concord station was installed in October 2020.[5]

Bus connections
County Connection buses at the station

Concord is a major terminal for County Connection local bus routes:

  • Weekday routes: 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 28, 91X, 260
  • Weekend routes: 310, 311, 314, 315, 320

The station is also served by Tri-Delta Transit route 201 and a special-event shuttle to the Concord Pavilion.[6][7] Buses stop on the west side of the station; most routes stop at a two-lane busway north of the station entrance, while several routes stop to the south.[8]

Notes
  1. Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area (1st ed.). Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith. pp. 501–502. ISBN 978-1-58685-432-4. OCLC 85623396.
  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.
  3. "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. September 2023.
  4. Weinstein, Dave. "How BART got ART". CA-Modern. Eichler Network. p. 2.
  5. "New Fare Gates & Station Hardening". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. July 2023. Archived from the original on September 4, 2023.
  6. "Directions". Concord Pavilion.
  7. "Going to the Concord Pavilion? Consider carpooling or taking BART". East Bay Times. July 23, 2015.
  8. "Transit Stops: Concord Station" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Commission. January 24, 2019.

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