Ashby (BART station)

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Ashby Station
Rapid transit
Station statistics
Address 3100 Adeline Street
Berkeley, CA 94703
Lines
Richmond – Fremont
Richmond – Millbrae
Connections AC Transit routes 9 (On Ashby Avenue), 15 (On Martin Luther King Junior Way), 18 (On Shattuck Avenue), 800All Nighter(On Adeline Street) F (Transbay (On Adeline Street)
Platforms Island
Parking Monthly Reserved Point, Daily ($1), Extended Weekend, Long Term/Airport Permit ($5)
Bicycle facilities 36 Lockers, 69 racks
Other information
Opened January 29, 1973
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access
Owned by Bay Area Rapid Transit, City of Berkeley
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2007) 4,286 exits/day[1] ▲ 3.5%

Ashby Station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station, located at Ashby Avenue and Adeline Street in the southern part of Berkeley, California. It consists of an underground island platform. The station was originally planned to be elevated but the City of Berkeley paid the extra cost to have it built underground.

The station has 600 automobile parking spaces in two separate parking lots, 24 motorcycle spaces, 36 bike lockers, and bike rack spaces. Access mode shares (2002) were: 40% pedestrian, 38% automobile (parked), 9% automobile (dropped-off), 8% bicycle, and 6% transit.[2]

Unique in the BART system, the City of Berkeley, rather than BART, controls the air rights on the parking lots. The west parking lot of the station hosts a popular flea market on weekends; a proposed residential development over the west lot has proven locally controversial. The east parking lot is the planned site of the Ed Roberts Campus development.

Service at this station began on January 29, 1973.[3]

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[edit] Attractions

  • Black Repertory Theatre
  • Judah L. Magnes Museum
  • La Pena Cultural Center
  • Berkley Iceland

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[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Yearly Exits, BART Station Profiles
  2. ^ BART Access Evaluation System, January 2002, cited in BART Bicycle Access and Parking Plan - Volume 1, August 2002, page A-6.
  3. ^ Bay Area Rapid Transit (2005-06-30). BART Chronolgy (PDF).
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