Pittsburg/Bay Point - Daly City Line

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The Pittsburg/Bay Point - Daly City Line of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area consists of 21 metro stations from Pittsburg to Daly City. It passes through Concord, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Orinda, Oakland, and San Francisco.

When BART officially opened the extension to the San Francisco International Airport on June 22, 2003, this line bypassed the airport and went straight to Millbrae; only the Dublin/Pleasanton Line served the airport's station. In order to attract more riders, BART truncated the Dublin/Pleasanton Line back to Daly City on February 9, 2004, in favor of the Pittsburg/Bay Point Line, which generally carried more passengers. However, BART, at the urging of SamTrans (which pays the operating expenses for BART's SFO extension) announced on August 11, 2005, that it was scaling back service on this line; effective September 12, 2005, Pittsburg/Bay Point trains once again terminate at Daly City Station. [1]

BART lines are usually not referred to by the color that identifies them on official system maps, so this line is rarely called the Yellow Line and the term is never used by BART officials. It is commonly called the Pittsburg/Bay Point Line, though a few people may still call it the Concord Line, after its original termination point in Contra Costa County.

This line generally operates the longest trains in the system, with ten car trains common throughout the day and eight or nine car trains at night and on weekends. In addition, peak hour service is operated on the line to Pleasant Hill supplementing the normal BART headway of 15 minutes on weekdays and 20 minutes on nights and weekends.

[edit] List of stations, northeast to southwest


Bay Area Rapid Transit (website)
Current lines Richmond - Daly City – Fremont - Daly City – Richmond - Fremont – Pittsburg/Bay Point - Daly City – Dublin/Pleasanton - SFO/Millbrae – AirBART
System features Transbay Tube – Market Street Subway
Connecting buses AC Transit – County Connection – Emery Go Round – Golden Gate Transit – Muni – SamTrans – Tri-Delta Transit – VTA – WestCat – WHEELS
Connecting rail services Amtrak – Amtrak California – Caltrain – Capitol Corridor – Muni Metro
Other information List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations
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