Richmond Station (California)

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Richmond Station
BART Rapid transit station
Amtrak Inter-city rail station
TransitHub.jpg
The remodeled station entry under construction in December 2006.
Station statistics
Address 1700 Nevin Way
Richmond, CA 94801
Lines BART

Amtrak
Connections

AC Transit: Routes 70, 71, 72M, 74, 76, 376 (local); 608, 684, 674, 667, 668, 675, 684 (school days only); 800 (All Nighter)
Golden Gate Transit: Route 42


Richmond Medical Center route BART-Kaiser Shuttle
Platforms 1 island platform (Amtrak)
1 island platform (BART)
Tracks 3 (Amtrak)
2 (BART)
Parking 624 spaces- Monthly Reserved, Daily (free), Extended Weekend (free)[1]
limited to 24 Hours (Amtrak)
Bicycle facilities Two Lockers
Baggage check no
Other information
Opened January 29, 1973
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access
Code RIC (Amtrak)
Owned by Bay Area Rapid Transit
Traffic
Passengers (2010) 271,486
Passengers (FY 2010) 3,284 exits/day[2] decrease 5.31% (BART)
Passengers (2010) 271,486[3] decrease 3.9% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   Bay Area Rapid Transit   Following station
Terminus Richmond – Millbrae
toward Millbrae
Richmond – Fremont
toward Fremont
Amtrak
toward San Jose
Capitol Corridor
toward Auburn
Capitol Corridor
under construction
toward Auburn
San Joaquins
toward Bakersfield
San Joaquins
under construction
toward Bakersfield
Terminus
California Zephyr
toward Chicago
toward Los Angeles
Coast Starlight
toward Seattle
Location
Location of the Richmond Amtrak Station.
Location of the Richmond Amtrak Station.
Location within California
"Richmond Station (Amtrak)" and "Richmond (BART station)" redirect here. For other places, see Richmond Station.

Richmond Station is an at-grade Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Amtrak station located in Richmond, California. Each system is served by an island platform. The Capitol Corridor, San Joaquins, California Zephyr, and Coast Starlight stop here and connect to BART. The station is currently being rebuilt. The Metro Walk - Richmond Transit Village is adjacent; north of the station is a BART rail yard. Richmond is the north end of BART's Richmond Line; the Richmond - Millbrae Line operates Monday-Saturday during the daytime (although the line does not travel south of Daly City on Saturdays) and the Richmond - Fremont Line operates at all times during regular BART service. This station has been identified as an important hub in the transportation network for metropolitan and state wide planning.[4]

BART service at this station began January 29, 1973.[5]

The station is served by two bus agencies. AC Transit provides a variety of local and regional service. Buses connect the station to various locations such as Contra Costa College, Hilltop Mall, El Cerrito del Norte BART Station, which is a regional bus hub with connecting services to the North Bay, and Richmond Parkway Transit Center. Routes 70, 71, 72M, 74, and 76 provide local intra-city service and also feeder service into the BART and Amtrak systems. They link to Richmond neighborhoods and neighboring communities of Marina Bay, Belding Woods, Point Richmond, Atchison Village, Hilltop, El Sobrante, El Cerrito, East Richmond, North Richmond, Rollingwood, and Pinole. Routes 376 and 800 both provide late night service. The former is a late night circulator combing the most popular portions of the local lines running until 2 AM while the 800 runs a route which emulates the BART's Richmond-Daly City line between Richmond and downtown San Francisco during the hours that BART is closed. It is the main route in the All Nighter regional Bay Area network. Route 42 is a link between the Golden Gate Transit service area in Marin County and the AC Transit area in Contra Costa County, the line connects San Rafael Transit Center a major GGT hub in San Rafael with Richmond and El Cerrito del Norte BART stations.

A transit store opened at the station in August 2008, joining other major stations in the system.[6]

Of the 73 California stations served by Amtrak, Richmond was the sixteenth-busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of about 750 passengers daily.[3]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ BART - Parking
  2. ^ "BART Fiscal Year Weekday Average Exits". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). http://www.bart.gov/docs/WeekdayExits.pdf. Retrieved 28 July 2010. 
  3. ^ a b "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/CALIFORNIA10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06. 
  4. ^ Converting a Large Region to a Multi-Modal Pulsed-Hub Public Transport Network, by Ross M. Maxwell, Parsons Brinckerhoff study, August 1, 2002 and November 15, 2002, access date July 18, 2008
  5. ^ BART History, BART website, access date July 18, 2008
  6. ^ Ticket exchange window opens at Richmond BART Station, BART News, August 4, 2008, accessed August 18, 2008

[edit] External links

Media related to Richmond (Amtrak/BART station) at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 37°56′13″N 122°21′11″W / 37.936811°N 122.353095°W / 37.936811; -122.353095

The Amtrak platform at dusk.
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