El Cerrito Plaza station
El Cerrito Plaza station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in El Cerrito, California, located adjacent to the El Cerrito Plaza shopping center. It primarily serves southern El Cerrito, northern Albany, and Kensington, along with nearby portions of Berkeley and Richmond. 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. The Ohlone Greenway runs through the station area.
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Location | 6699 Fairmount Avenue El Cerrito, California | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°54′10″N 122°17′56″W | ||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
Parking | 761 spaces | ||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 30 lockers | ||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
Architect | DeMars & Wells[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | January 29, 1973[2] | ||||||||||||||
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2023 | 2,053 (weekday average)[3] | ||||||||||||||
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History
The station opened on January 29, 1973.[2] As with El Cerrito del Norte station, the escalator walls feature tile mosaics by Alfonso Pardiñas.[4] UC Berkeley music professor Jorge Liderman committed suicide at the station on February 3, 2008.[5]
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.[6]
Bus connections
Busways on both sides of the station serve a number of AC Transit bus routes:[7]
- Local: 71, 72, 72M, 79, 80
- Transbay: G
- School: 667, 668, 675, 684
The busways are also used by the Bear Transit RFS route.[7] 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
- 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.
- "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. September 2023.
- 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.
- "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