Emeryville (Amtrak station)

Emeryville

Looking southward over Emeryville's Amtrak station
Station statistics
Address 5885 Horton Street
Emeryville, CA 94608
Lines
  California Zephyr
  Capitol Corridor
  Coast Starlight
  San Joaquins
Platforms 1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks 5
Parking Free
Bicycle facilities Yes
Baggage check Yes
Other information
Opened 1994
Accessible
Code EMY
Owned by City of Emeryville
Traffic
Passengers (FY2010) 529,965[1]  1.73% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
Terminus California Zephyr
toward Chicago
toward San Jose
 Capitol Corridor
toward Auburn
Coast Starlight
toward Seattle
Terminus
 San Joaquins
Location
Location within California

The Emeryville Amtrak station is an Amtrak station in Emeryville, California that replaced the older Amtrak 16th Street Station in Oakland. The original Beaux-Arts Oakland 16th Street Station was declared unsafe due to unreinforced masonry after sustaining damage in the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989.

The Emeryville station is served by Amtrak California's Capitol Corridor and San Joaquins and Amtrak's Coast Starlight. It is also the western terminus of Amtrak's California Zephyr, as there is no wye at Amtrak's new Oakland station near Jack London Square, and it would be dangerous to back a long train along Oakland's Embarcadero to the Union Pacific yards. Amtrak Thruway buses transport California Zephyr passengers between Emeryville and Oakland and San Francisco. The bus services Emery Go-Round and AC Transit also stop at or near the station.

Of the 73 California stations served by Amtrak, Emeryville was the fifth busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 1450 passengers daily.[2]

Transit connections

There are several AC Transit bus lines connecting the area with its surroundings, schools and job centers in San Francisco stopping at this station. This is in addition to free Emery-Go-Round service and Amtrak Thruway Bus 34's two daily trips to Stockton from San Francisco.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/CALIFORNIA10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06. 
  2. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of California" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/CALIFORNIA10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-06. 
  3. ^ Amtrak Thruway Bus Route 34

External links

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