Union City (BART station)

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Union City Station
Rapid transit

Station statistics

Address

Ten Union Square
Union City, CA 94587

Lines

Richmond – Fremont

Fremont – Daly City

Connections

AC Transit routes 97, 99, 211, 214, 216, 232, 332, 333, 801 (All Nighter), M (Transbay)
Dumbarton Express routes DB, DB1, DB3
Union City Transit routes 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4

Platforms

2 Side

Parking

Monthly Reserved, Daily (free), Extended Weekend, Midday (free) and Long Term

Bicycle facilities

20 Lockers

Other information

Opened

September 11, 1972

Accessible

Owned by

Bay Area Rapid Transit

Traffic

Passengers (FY 2007)

4,011 exits/day^[1] ▲ 2.9%

Union City is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located near the Decoto district of Union City. The station sits near Decoto Road east of Alvarado-Niles Road, directly behind James Logan High School's campus. This station is one of the few that has Free parking. The Parking Spaces were constructed between 2006, and opened in the Summer of 2007.

Local bus service is provided by Union City Transit and AC Transit.

1 Union City intermodal rail station
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Union City intermodal rail station

Service at this station began on September 11, 1972.^[2]

The station has been proposed to become a regional rail intermodal station. The intermodal station will serve BART trains, Capitol Corridor intercity trains, and Caltrain commuter rail service to the Peninsula via a new rail bridge located near the Dumbarton bridge. For now, the Dumbarton Express bus service provides service to the peninsula.^[3]

Officials with Bay Area Rapid Transit, AC Transit and the city of Union City, California, held groundbreaking ceremonies for the new multimodal passenger facility on November 13, 2007. The project includes a conversion to solar power generation for the station's energy needs, which could make it the first station in the United States to be powered by solar energy. The construction is expected to cost $100 million and be completed in 2015.^[4]

Platform as seen in Spring 2000.

[edit] See also

List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations
City of Union City Intermodal Station District Building on years of planning, this 2007-2013 plan proposes higher quality of life development for the Union City BART station and surrounding blocks. The plan includes phased development of shared public space (park and community plaza), high-rise residential space and office space. This is "Transit-Oriented Development" or TOD, common in Europe and Japan, and coming soon to more US cities. If you live around here or pass by on the train, you can see some development already on both sides of the tracks.

[edit] References

^ Yearly Exits, BART Station Profiles
^ BART Chronology. Bay Area Rapid Transit (2005). Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
^ Intermodal Station District. City of Union City, California. Retrieved on 2008-06-07.
^ "BART builds solar-powered rail station" (February 2008). Trains Magazine 68 (2): p 23. ISSN 0041-0934.