Downtown Berkeley (BART station)

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Station platform
Downtown Berkeley
Station statistics
Address	2160 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704
Lines	Richmond - Fremont Richmond - Daly City
Platforms	Island
Other information
Opened	January 29, 1973
Accessible

Downtown Berkeley BART is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located on Shattuck Avenue, between Allston Way and Addison Street in Downtown Berkeley, California. Signs in the station itself read simply "Berkeley," but BART schedules and maps label the station "Downtown Berkeley." The rebranding came in the mid-1990s, presumably to avoid confusion with North Berkeley and Ashby stations, which are both also located in the city of Berkeley.

The station consists of a mezzanine level and an underground island platform beneath it. The escalators leading to the entrance at Shattuck Avenue and Center Street are topped by a unique "mini" rotunda that covers passengers entering and leaving the station from inclement weather.

Downtown Berkeley is the second-busiest BART station outside of San Francisco, with 10,703 weekday average exits in Fiscal Year 2006. The only station outside of San Francisco with more traffic is 12th Street/Oakland City Center.

The station is popular both with students of UC Berkeley who use it to commute to the university and with non-student residents of Berkeley, many of whom commute to job centers in San Francisco and other Bay Area destinations. Additionally, it is used by patrons of events taking place at the University, such as concerts or lectures, and especially football games and other athletic events, including those sponsored by the MyBART service.

This has been the site of many BART Alert protests in response to occurrences on the political scene.^{[citation needed]}

Service at this station began on January 29, 1973.[1]

Contents 1 Transit Connections 1.1 AC Transit 1.2 Bear Transit 2 External links

[edit] Transit Connections

[edit] AC Transit

• 7 Arlington
• 9 Dwight
• 15 Martin Luther King Jr.
• 40 Telegraph
• 40L Telegraph Limited (proposed enhancement to rapid service under designation 40R Telegraph RAPID)
• 43 Shattuck
• 51 Broadway
• 52 Cedar (proposed elimination with alternate service provided by lines 52L and 19)
• 52L University Limited
• 65 Euclid
• 67 Spruce
• 800 Transbay All Nighter
• F Adeline

[edit] Bear Transit

• C
• H
• R
• P
• RFS

[edit] External links

• BART - Downtown Berkeley Station Overview

• Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 37.869799° -122.268197°
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  • Street map from MapQuest or Google Maps
  • Topographic map from TopoZone
  • Aerial image from TerraServer-USA

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North Berkeley toward Richmond		Richmond - Daly City		Ashby toward Daly City (Colma during peak hours)
		Richmond - Fremont		Ashby toward Fremont

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