| Downtown Berkeley Station Rapid transit |
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| Address | 2160 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 |
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| Connections | AC Transit: Routes 1, 1R*, 7, 12, 18, 25, 49, 51B, 52, 65, 67, 88 (local); 800, 851 (All Nighter); F, FS* (Transbay) Bear Transit: C, H, P, R, RFS * - Route operates weekdays only |
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | January 29, 1973 | ||||||||||||||
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| Owned by | Bay Area Rapid Transit | ||||||||||||||
| Formerly | Berkeley (1972-mid-1990s) | ||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (FY 2010) | 11,317 exits/day[1] 5.84% | ||||||||||||||
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Downtown Berkeley 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, per se the original name of the station. BART officials renamed it in the mid-1990s, presumably to avoid confusion with North Berkeley and Ashby stations, both of which are 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 icosikaitetragonal 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 11,814 weekday average exits in Fiscal Year 2008. The only station outside 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.
Service at this station began on January 29, 1973.[2]
This station is in BART District 3 and is represented by Bob Franklin.[3]
There is also a valet bike parking facility outside the station at street level and is operated by Alameda Bicycle. It used to be placed at the top of an unused stairway from the mezzanine level to the platform below. The stairs were built so that an additional entrance could be opened if needed in the future, and had never been used by passengers.
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