El Cerrito Plaza station

Coordinates: 37°54′10″N 122°17′56″W / 37.902694°N 122.298968°W / 37.902694; -122.298968
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El Cerrito Plaza
Bay Area Rapid Transit
Platforms at El Cerrito Plaza station in 2017
General information
Location6699 Fairmount Avenue
El Cerrito, California
Coordinates37°54′10″N 122°17′56″W / 37.902694°N 122.298968°W / 37.902694; -122.298968
Owned byBay Area Rapid Transit
Line(s)BART R-Line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus transport AC Transit: 71, 72, 72M, 79, 80, 667, 668, 675, 684, G
Bus transport Bear Transit: RFS
Construction
Parking761 spaces
Bicycle facilities30 lockers
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedJanuary 29, 1973[1]
Passengers
20242,044 (weekday average)[2]
Services
Preceding station Bay Area Rapid Transit Following station
North Berkeley
toward Millbrae
 Red Line El Cerrito del Norte
toward Richmond
North Berkeley
toward Berryessa/​North San José
 Orange Line
Location
Map

El Cerrito Plaza 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.

The station opened on January 29, 1973.[1] As with El Cerrito del Norte station, the escalator walls feature tile mosaics by Alfonso Pardiñas.[3] UC Berkeley music professor Jorge Liderman committed suicide at the station on February 3, 2008.[4]

The elevators to the platforms are outside of the paid area. BART plans to add a dedicated faregate for each elevator in 2022.[5]

Bus connections

AC Transit buses at the station

Busways on both sides of the station serve a number of AC Transit bus routes:[6]

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

The busways are also used by the Bear Transit RFS route.[6] 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. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2024.
  3. ^ Weinstein, Dave. "How BART got ART". CA-Modern. Eichler Network. p. 6.
  4. ^ Kosman, Joshua (February 4, 2008). "Composer Liderman dies in apparent suicide". San Francisco Chronicle.
  5. ^ "New Embarcadero platform fare gate speeds up transfer to Muni, improves accessibility, reduces fare evasion" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 9, 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Transit Stops: El Cerrito Plaza Station" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Commission. March 29, 2017.

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