Martinez (Amtrak station)

Martinez
Station statistics
Address	601 Marina Vista Avenue Martinez, CA 94553
Line(s)	California Zephyr   Capitol Corridor   Coast Starlight   San Joaquin
Connections	Bus: Amtrak: 7-North Bay/Eureka County Connection: 16-Concord BART via Alhambra 18-Pleasant Hill BART 19-Concord BART via Pacheco 28-North Concord/Martinez BART 98X-Walnut Creek BART 639-Diablo Valley College 316 Pleasant Hill BART (Saturday) WestCat: 30Z-Hercules/El Cerrito del Norte BART Tri-Delta: 200-Pittsburg/Bay Point BART
Structure type	at-grade
Platforms	1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks	4
Parking	Permit only
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Baggage check	yes
Other information
Opened	2001
Accessible
Station code	MTZ
Owned by	City of Martinez
Traffic
Passengers (FY2013)	475,909[1]  0.43% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Richmond, CA toward San Jose Capitol Corridor Suisun/Fairfield toward Auburn Hercules toward San Jose Capitol Corridor under construction Richmond, CA toward Oakland-Jack London Square San Joaquin Pittsburg-Antioch toward Bakersfield Hercules toward Oakland-Jack London Square San Joaquin under construction Richmond, CA toward Emeryville California Zephyr Davis toward Chicago Emeryville toward Los Angeles Coast Starlight Davis toward Seattle
Location
Location within California

Martinez Station is a union station in Martinez, California, the county seat of Contra Costa County. It is served by 44 Amtrak trains per day, including Capitol Corridor trains, San Joaquins, the California Zephyr and the Coast Starlight. (When Amtrak took over in 1971 none of its trains stopped at Martinez.) The station is served by local County Connection bus service and connecting service from Benicia Breeze, WestCAT, and Tri-Delta Transit. The station was remodeled in the late 1990s, improving its aesthetic appeal. The station includes a transit center for buses, kiss and ride areas for rides and taxis, and extensive surface level parking.

There are plans to use Measure J monies to build a ferry terminal and begin a ferry service to San Francisco from this waterfront station on the Suisun Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers Delta of the San Francisco Bay. This would make the station a bus, ferry, and rail intermodal transit hub.^[2][3]

The proposed wBART is an extension of BART service through connecting heavy DMU rail from current terminals. wBART may run through Martinez on its way to Solano County via the Benicia-Martinez Railbridge if it is extended beyond the preliminary terminal in nearby Hercules.^[4]

Of the 74 California stations served by Amtrak, Martinez was the sixth-busiest in FY2012, boarding or detraining an average of about 1,304 passengers daily.^[1]

Transit Connections

Most buses are County Connection, the main jurisdictional transit provider for this part of the county, but there is also service feeder provided Amtrak in addition to commuter service from neighboring transit jurisdictions.

County Connection

County Connection is the local transit agency and provides both local and connecting express services. Line 639 connects the station with Diablo Valley College and points between long Pacheco Road^[5] and line 98X runs commuter service to Walnut Creek BART station with stops in northern Martinez along Berrellessa and Alhambra Roads, then traveling along Highway 4 to Chilpancingo Road with stops along Chilpancingo and Sunvalley Mall then continuing onto Interstate 680 to Walnut Creek.^[6] Line 16 travels to Concord BART via the western edge of Martinez on Alhambra and then onto central Concord thru Monument Bl.^[7] Route 18 winds through Pacheco, Morello, Muir and Contra Costa to Diablo Valley College, then continues to Pleasant Hill BART turning onto Taylor, Gregory, and Buskirk.^[7] The 19 takes a direct route to Concord along Pacheco and Contra Costa before winding through neighborhoods of downtown Concord along Galaxy and Concord to the Concord BART.^[7] The 28 links the station with North Concord/Martinez BART weaving through central Martinez via Howe then onto the VA and Kaiser Hospitals in southern Martinez before turning onto Muir and Industrial Parkway near Clyde to the BART.^[7] The 316 provides weekend service to Pleasant Hill BART combining the most popular portions of many of the other routes.^[8]

Feeder and commuter service

There is Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach service to Vallejo, Napa, Santa Rosa, and Eureka along route 7.^[9]

WestCat provides commute service on route 30Z to El Cerrito del Norte BART station with stops in northern Martinez along Alhambra Road to Martinez VA Hospital, then traveling along Highway 4 to Hercules Transit Center where it becomes interlined with route JPX and then south along Interstate 80 to del Norte BART in El Cerrito.^[10]

Tri-Delta Transit runs route 200 from the station to the Martinez VA Hospital and Kaiser Hospital to East County running express service along highway 4 to the Pittsburg/Bay Point BART station in Bay Point.^[11]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Martinez (Amtrak station).

• Amtrak – Stations – Martinez, CA
• Martinez Amtrak Station (USA RailGuide -- TrainWeb)

Coordinates: 38°01′09″N 122°08′20″W / 38.019292°N 122.138754°W / 38.019292; -122.138754

• Martinez (MTZ)-Great American Stations (Amtrak)