El Cerrito Plaza (BART station)

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For the shopping center, see El Cerrito Plaza (shopping center). For other uses, see Cerrito.

El Cerrito Plaza Station
Rapid transit

Commuters exiting station, walking past bicycle lockers

Station statistics

Address

6699 Fairmount Avenue
El Cerrito, CA 94530

Lines

Richmond – Fremont

Richmond – Millbrae

Connections

AC Transit routes, 52L, 72, 72M, 72R*, 79, 800 (All Nighter), G* and L* (Transbay)
*indicates routes stop nearby

Platforms

2 Side

Parking

Monthly Reserved Point, Daily ($1), Extended Weekend, Carpool and Long Term

Bicycle facilities

30 Lockers

Other information

Opened

January 29, 1973

Accessible

Owned by

Bay Area Rapid Transit

Traffic

Passengers (FY 2007)

4,087 exits/day^[1] ▲ 6.1%

Services

Preceding station		Bay Area Rapid Transit		Following station
El Cerrito del Norte toward Richmond		Richmond – Millbrae		North Berkeley toward Millbrae
El Cerrito del Norte toward Richmond		Richmond – Fremont		North Berkeley toward Fremont

El Cerrito Plaza is one of two elevated BART stations located in El Cerrito, California. It primarily serves southern El Cerrito, northern Albany, and Kensington, along with nearby areas of Berkeley and Richmond. Outside of the station is the El Cerrito Plaza shopping center.

The station hosts the first BART trial of bikelink on-demand electronic bicycle lockers (traditional BART lockers are leased by the year, and are almost always fully booked). These are the same lockers used by C-TRAN of Vancouver, Washington, as funded by the US EPA.

Service at this station began on January 29, 1973.^[2]

On February 3rd, 2008 UC Berkeley music professor Jorge Liderman committed suicide at this station by jumping in front of an incoming Richmond bound train at this station.^[3]