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The station is served by the California Zephyr, Capitol Corridor, Coast Starlight, and San Joaquins. The station is the primary connection point for Amtrak Thruway buses serving San Francisco. Emeryville station has one side platform and one island platform serving the eastern two tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad Martinez Subdivision. [1]
The name, a play on the term merry-go-round, is a reference to both Emeryville founder Joseph Stickney Emery and the bus routes, which are loops beginning and ending at MacArthur BART Station. As of 2024, Emery Go-Round operates two fixed routes: Shellmound-Powell and Hollis.
The services were mainly identified on maps, schedules, and station signage by the names of their termini. However, the new fleet displays line colors more prominently, and BART has begun to use color names in press releases and GTFS data. [7] [8] In 2022, BART formally announced on Twitter they were using colors on the line map and officially. [9]
The closest BART station is MacArthur station in Oakland, approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) east of the Amtrak station. Although Richmond station, approximately 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi (12.1 km) north of Emeryville, and Oakland Coliseum station , approximately 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 mi (15.7 km) south, both provide direct connections between Amtrak and BART, these stops ...
[citation needed] the Emeryville Amtrak Station, and free Emery-go-Round shuttles on the Shellmound/Powell line to MacArthur BART station and other areas in the city. [10] Parking, originally free, now costs US$2–10 depending on the length of stay. The fees have been controversial, as they have been consistently raised over the years. [11]
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.
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MacArthur station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in the Temescal District of Oakland, California. It is the largest station in the BART system, being the only one with four platform tracks. Service through MacArthur is timed for cross-platform transfers between the southbound lines that pass through the station.