Pittsburg / Bay Point (BART station)

For the DMU station in Pittsburg, see Pittsburg (eBART station).
Pittsburg / Bay Point
Bay Area Rapid Transit

The front exterior of the Pittsburg / Bay Point BART Station
Location 1700 West Leland Road
Pittsburg, CA 94565
Coordinates 38°01′08″N 121°56′39″W / 38.018869°N 121.944208°W / 38.018869; -121.944208Coordinates: 38°01′08″N 121°56′39″W / 38.018869°N 121.944208°W / 38.018869; -121.944208
Owned by Bay Area Rapid Transit
Line(s)
  Pittsburg/​Bay Point–​SFO/​Millbrae
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Construction
Parking 1992 spaces- Monthly Reserved, Daily ($1.50/day), Extended Weekend (free), Midday (free after 3pm), Carpool, and Long Term.[1]
Bicycle facilities 20 Lockers
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened December 7, 1996
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2013) 5,570 exits/day[2] Increase 5.3%
Services
Preceding station   Bay Area Rapid Transit   Following station
TerminusPittsburg/​Bay Point–​SFO/​Millbrae
toward SFO (Millbrae on weeknights & weekends)

Pittsburg / Bay Point is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in the community of Bay Point, California. As the terminal station of the Pittsburg / Bay Point – SFO Line, it serves all of northern and eastern Contra Costa County, including the cities of Pittsburg, Antioch, Oakley and Brentwood, as well as the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

History

The station opened on December 7, 1996. The eBART extension is an under construction DMU train from Pittsburg / Bay Point to the cities of Pittsburg, Oakley, Antioch, Byron, Brentwood and Discovery Bay, and as of 2010 the extension's first phase included stations in Pittsburg/Railroad Avenue and Antioch/Hillcrest Avenue.[3] This station is in BART District 2 and is represented by Joel Keller.[4] In May 2008 a Library-a-Go-Go machine was added at this station, it is a vending machine that offers library books from the Contra Costa County Library system.[5] This was BART's first book vending machine and the first on a transit system in the nation.[5]

A child was born in the parking lot of the station on November 26, 2012.[6]

Station layout

G Street Level Exits/Entrances
M Mezzanine One-way faregates, ticket machines, station agent
P
Platform
level		 Southbound ←      Pittsburg/​Bay Point–​SFO/​Millbrae toward San Francisco International Airport weekdays, Millbrae weekends (North Concord / Martinez)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Northbound →      Pittsburg/​Bay Point–​SFO/​Millbrae (Not in service) →

Transit connections

Several Tri Delta Transit bus lines stop at the station:

Rio Vista Delta Breeze:

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bart.gov/stations/pitt/index.aspx#parking
  2. ↑ "BART Fiscal Year Weekday Average Exits" (PDF). Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  3. ↑ East Contra Costa BART Extension (eBART), BART. 2010. Accessed 11-12-2010.
  4. ↑ Bay Area Rapid Transit District Biography, BART.gov, retrieved January 23, 2008
  5. 1 2 Library-a-Go-Go comes to El Cerrito del Norte BART Station
  6. ↑ Mercury News
  7. ↑ News

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