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Some Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) services are planned to be expanded to Union City, with a new platform on the Oakland Subdivision adjacent to the BART station. [41] [42] Three daily ACE round-trips are proposed to serve the station by 2030: two Union City–Merced round trips and one Union City–Natomas round trip. [42] [43] [41]
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.
With average weekday ridership around 165,000 passengers in June 2024, BART is the fifth busiest rapid transit system in the United States. [1] [2] BART is administered by the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a special district government agency formed by Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco counties.
The California state senate allocated $400 million in revenue from a gas tax increase to ACEforward expansion. [29] By 2019, the plan had come to be called the Altamont Corridor Vision , with an expected price of $9.7 billion, allowing ACE to run up to six weekday round trips in 2023 with the goal of ten weekday round trips once additional ...
Parts of: Alameda County (Fremont, Newark, Union City) and Santa Clara County — Yes — — 3 Yes — Emery Go Round: Entire: Emeryville Connects with (MacArthur BART) in Oakland — Free: 6 — — — — Fairfield and Suisun Transit: Parts of: Sacramento city, and Contra Costa, Yolo, and Solano counties 700 Yes 10 — 4 — — Golden Gate ...
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.
The BART Board approved the name "Civic Center" in December 1965. [5] BART service at the station began on November 5, 1973, followed by Muni Metro service on February 18, 1980. [ 6 ] [ 2 ] In 2005, the station name was changed to Civic Center/UN Plaza during celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the United Nations and World Environment Day .
The Orange Line was the first BART line to open. Initial services between MacArthur and Fremont stations began on September 11, 1972, with full service extending to Richmond beginning on January 29, 1973. [2] The line would not see any major changes for another 45 years, until the start of the Silicon Valley BART extension.