Balboa Park Station

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Balboa Park Station Rapid transit
View of station concourse
Station statistics
Address	401 Geneva Avenue San Francisco, CA 94112
Lines	BART Pittsburg/Bay Point – SFO Dublin/Pleasanton – Millbrae Richmond – Millbrae Fremont – Daly City Muni J Church K Ingleside M Ocean View Muni Metro lines loop around the yard nearby
Connections	9X Bayshore Express 9AX Bayshore "A" Express 9BX Bayshore "B" Express 26 Valencia 29 Sunset 36 Teresita 43 Masonic 49 Van Ness-Mission 54 Felton 88 BART Shuttle
Platforms	1 island platform
Bicycle facilities	12 lockers
Other information
Opened	November 3, 1973
Accessible
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2007)	13,302 exits/day (BART)[1] ▲ 8.58%

Balboa Park Station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located south of Balboa Park in San Francisco, California. It consists of an island platform. Interstate 280 runs along the west side of the station, and City College of San Francisco is to the north.

Balboa Park is currently the busiest BART station outside of downtown San Francisco,^[2] as eight Muni bus lines stop in the area as well as three Muni Metro lines. In addition, the station is popular with passengers that kiss and ride because of the station's close proximity to Interstate 280. The station is also the southernmost station that can be ridden under a Muni FastPass as Daly City Station is just over the city border in Daly City.

Balboa Park Station is an official transfer station. Even though the four BART lines that pass through here continue on to the Daly City Station, the latter station has more train platforms. Furthermore, Balboa Park is a major transportation hub with its multiple transit connections with Muni.

Service at this station began on November 3, 1973.^[3]

Contents 1 Architecture 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Architecture

Unlike most other BART stations, which are either completely underground and artificially illuminated, or are elevated with natural daylight, the station connects the underground tunnels with a large, open trench, with the station's midsection covered by the above-grade station building and the adjacent street (Geneva Avenue), allowing sunlight to penetrate to the uncovered ends of the station. Each side of the grade level is connected across the trench with arches, and a large area of the wall is surfaced with rough textured concrete.

The original architects of the station were Corlett & Spackman and Ernest Born.^[4] Born also designed the station graphics.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

[edit] External links

• BART - Balboa Park Station Overview

• Balboa Park Station is at coordinates 37°43′18″N 122°26′51″W / 37.721629, -122.447519 (Balboa Park Station)Coordinates: 37°43′18″N 122°26′51″W / 37.721629, -122.447519 (Balboa Park Station)

Preceding station		Bay Area Rapid Transit		Following station
Glen Park toward Richmond		Richmond – Millbrae		Daly City toward Millbrae
Glen Park toward Dublin/Pleasanton		Dublin/Pleasanton – Millbrae
Glen Park toward Pittsburg/Bay Point		Pittsburg/Bay Point – SFO		Daly City toward San Francisco International Airport
Glen Park toward Fremont		Fremont – Daly City		Daly City Terminus
Preceding station		Muni Metro		Following station
San Jose and Ocean toward Embarcadero		J Church		Terminus
Ocean and San Jose toward West Portal (Becomes T Third Street after West Portal)		K Ingleside
San Jose and Geneva (Balboa Park stop rush hours only) toward Embarcadero		M Ocean View