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Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.BART serves 50 stations along six routes and 131 miles (211 kilometers) of track, including eBART, a 9-mile (14 km) spur line running to Antioch, and Oakland Airport Connector, a 3-mile (4.8 km) automated guideway transit line serving Oakland International Airport.
Transit advocacy groups in the Bay Area, such as SPUR, [40] have long promoted larger-scale expansion of the BART system through various capital projects - one identified as a long-term goal in the Metro Vision is the construction of a second, four-bore rail tunnel under San Francisco Bay, increasing connectivity and capacity of the system.
San Francisco: November 5, 1973: 5,600: 0: 19th Street Oakland ^ O Orange Line R Red Line Y Yellow Line — Oakland: September 11, 1972: 4,492: 0: 24th Street Mission B Blue Line G Green Line R Red Line Y Yellow Line — San Francisco: November 5, 1973: 5,364: 0: Antioch † Y Yellow Line † — Antioch: May 26, 2018: 1,721: 1,012: Ashby O ...
In January 2008, BART re-extended the line to SFO at all times, and in September 2009, trains were further extended to Millbrae on evenings and weekends. Beginning on February 10, 2020, the Yellow Line again terminated at SFO at all times, and service from SFO to Millbrae was once again provided by the Purple Line . [ 13 ]
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (occasionally abbreviated in early years to BARTD) was created in 1957 [3] to provide a transit alternative between suburbs in the East Bay and job centers in San Francisco's Financial District as well as (to a lesser extent) those in Downtown Oakland and Downtown Berkeley.
A BART extension to San Francisco International Airport was first proposed in 1970 - before the initial system even opened. [ 8 ] : 4 In 1972, a "trace" — a concrete shell with space for a station — was built into the North Terminal (now Terminal 3) during its construction; it was blocked from use by later construction.
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Pleasant Hill station under construction in 1970. BART construction officially began on June 19, 1964, with President Lyndon Johnson presiding over the ground-breaking ceremonies at the 4.4-mile (7.1 km) Diablo Test Track between Concord and Walnut Creek in Contra Costa County, where Parsons Brinckerhoff-Tudor-Bechtel would test out the system's new technologies and unconventional design choices.