| Richmond Station BART Rapid transit station Amtrak Inter-city rail station |
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The remodeled station entry under construction in December 2006. |
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| Address | 1700 Nevin Way Richmond, CA 94801 |
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| Lines | BART Amtrak |
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AC Transit: Routes 70, 71, 72M, 74, 76, 376 (local); 608, 684, 674, 667, 668, 675, 684 (school days only); 800 (All Nighter) Richmond Medical Center route BART-Kaiser Shuttle |
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| Platforms | 1 island platform (Amtrak) 1 island platform (BART) |
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| Tracks | 3 (Amtrak) 2 (BART) |
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| Parking | 624 spaces- Monthly Reserved, Daily (free), Extended Weekend (free)[1] limited to 24 Hours (Amtrak) |
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| Bicycle facilities | Two Lockers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baggage check | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | January 29, 1973 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Code | RIC (Amtrak) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Bay Area Rapid Transit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 271,486 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Passengers (FY 2010) | 3,284 exits/day[2] 5.31% (BART) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Passengers (2010) | 271,486[3] 3.9% (Amtrak) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location within California
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Richmond Station is an at-grade Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Amtrak station located in Richmond, California. Each system is served by an island platform. The Capitol Corridor, San Joaquins, California Zephyr, and Coast Starlight stop here and connect to BART. The station is currently being rebuilt. The Metro Walk - (Richmond Transit Village) is adjacent; north of the station is a BART rail yard. Richmond is the north end of BART's Richmond Line; the Richmond - Millbrae Line operates Monday-Saturday during the daytime (although the line does not travel south of Daly City on Saturdays) and the Richmond - Fremont Line operates at all times during regular BART service. This station has been identified as an important hub in the transportation network for metropolitan and state wide planning.[4]
BART service at this station began January 29, 1973.[5]
The station is served by two bus agencies. AC Transit provides a variety of local and regional service. Buses connect the station to various locations such as Contra Costa College, Hilltop Mall, El Cerrito del Norte BART Station, which is a regional bus hub with connecting services to the North Bay, and Richmond Parkway Transit Center. Routes 70, 71, 72M, 74, and 76 provide local intra-city service and also feeder service into the BART and Amtrak systems. They link to Richmond neighborhoods and neighboring communities of Marina Bay, Belding Woods, Point Richmond, Atchison Village, Hilltop, El Sobrante, El Cerrito, East Richmond, North Richmond, Rollingwood, and Pinole. Routes 376 and 800 both provide late night service. The former is a late night circulator combing the most popular portions of the local lines running until 2 AM while the 800 runs a route which emulates the BART's Richmond-Daly City line between Richmond and downtown San Francisco during the hours that BART is closed. It is the main route in the All Nighter regional Bay Area network. Route 42 is a link between the Golden Gate Transit service area in Marin County and the AC Transit area in Contra Costa County, the line connects San Rafael Transit Center a major GGT hub in San Rafael with Richmond and El Cerrito del Norte BART stations.
A transit store opened at the station in August 2008, joining other major stations in the system.[6]
Of the 73 California stations served by Amtrak, Richmond was the sixteenth-busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of about 750 passengers daily.[3]
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Metro Walk is a half built sixteen-acre (six-and-a-half-hectare) master planned community built adjacent to the station.[7] This has 132 homes on an eight acre site with a housing density of 16.5 du/acre.[7] It is a major public-private works project, and one of the first transit villages in the world, and the first with single-family houses as the primary housing units, instead of more traditional condos. It is a mixed-use project spearheaded by the Richmond Redevelopment Agency, in partnership with a large consortium of local, state, and federal agencies.
The floorplans of these cluster homes are from 1,395 to 1,615 square feet (130-150 m²).[8] There are three models: bungalows, villas, and career homes.[8]
The project consists of multi-level row houses, some of which come with a ground floor area with a free business license, in addition to commercial space, a planned parking garage, parks, and a greenway path connecting the station with the downtown area, in particular the Social Security Administration building and Kaiser Hospital. The plan also included the remodeling of the approach to the station which was seen as antagonizingly suspicious and met with apprehension due to the recessed entry which is being presently replaced with a more modern escalator-driven, well-lit entrance with a police substation to provide peace of mind to passers-by.
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Richmond_(Amtrak/BART_station) Richmond (Amtrak/BART station)] at Wikimedia Commons
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