El Cerrito Plaza station

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El Cerrito Plaza
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Platforms at El Cerrito Plaza station in 2017
General information
Location6699 Fairmount Avenue
El Cerrito, California
Coordinates 37°54′10″N122°17′56″W / 37.902694°N 122.298968°W / 37.902694; -122.298968
Owned by Bay Area Rapid Transit
Line(s) BART R-Line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsAiga bus trans.svg AC Transit: 71, 72, 72M, 79, 80, 667, 668, 675, 684, G
Aiga bus trans.svg Bear Transit: RFS
Construction
Structure typeElevated
Parking761 spaces
Bicycle facilities30 lockers
AccessibleYes
ArchitectDeMars & Wells [1]
Other information
Station code BART: PLZA
History
OpenedJanuary 29, 1973 [2]
Passengers
20241,965 (weekday average) [3]
Services
Preceding station Bart compact logo.svg Bay Area Rapid Transit Following station
North Berkeley
toward Berryessa/​North San José
Orange Line El Cerrito del Norte
toward Richmond
North Berkeley
toward Millbrae
Red Line
Location
El Cerrito Plaza station

El Cerrito Plaza station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in El Cerrito, California, located adjacent to the El Cerrito Plaza shopping center. It primarily serves southern El Cerrito, northern Albany, and Kensington, along with nearby portions of Berkeley and Richmond. Nearly identical in form to El Cerrito del Norte station, El Cerrito Plaza station has two side platforms serving the line's two elevated tracks, with a fare lobby underneath. The Ohlone Greenway runs through the station area. The station is served by the Orange and Red lines.

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History

The BART Board approved the name "El Cerrito Plaza" in December 1965. [4] The station opened on January 29, 1973. [2] As with El Cerrito del Norte station, the escalator walls feature tile mosaics by Alfonso Pardiñas. [5] UC Berkeley music professor Jorge Liderman committed suicide at the station on February 3, 2008. [6] Conceptual plans for modernization of the two El Cerrito stations were released in December 2013. [7] Thirteen BART stations, including El Cerrito Plaza, did not originally have faregates for passengers using the elevator. In 2020, BART started a project to add faregates to elevators at these stations. Two new faregates at El Cerrito Plaza installed in May 2022. [8]

In 2018, BART and the city of El Cerrito signed a memorandum of understanding to begin planning for transit-oriented development to replace surface parking lots at the station. [9] A developer was chosen in November 2020. A total of six buildings with about 750 residential units are planned. [10] Per BART policy to limit parking replacement at urban stations, BART parking will be reduced from 761 spaces to 145 spaces. [11] [10] [12] The first building was approved by the city in 2023. As of April 2024, construction of the buildings is expected to begin in mid-2024, with all completed by mid-2028. [10]

Bus connections

AC Transit buses at the station AC Transit buses at El Cerrito Plaza station, July 2018.JPG
AC Transit buses at the station

Busways on both sides of the station serve a number of AC Transit bus routes: [13]

The busways are also used by the Bear Transit RFS route. [13] Several other AC Transit routes — including rapid route 72R, Transbay routes L and LC, and All Nighter route 800 — run on San Pablo Avenue 0.25 miles (0.40 km) to the west.

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References

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  2. 1 2 "BART Chronology January 1947 – March 2009" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. June 2024.
  4. ↑ "Names Approved for 38 Rapid Transit Stations Around Bay". Oakland Tribune. December 10, 1965. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Weinstein, Dave. "How BART got ART". CA-Modern. Eichler Network. p. 6.
  6. ↑ Kosman, Joshua (February 4, 2008). "Composer Liderman dies in apparent suicide". San Francisco Chronicle.
  7. ↑ El Cerrito Plaza and Del Norte Stations Modernization Concept Plans - Final Report (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. December 13, 2013.
  8. ↑ "New Fare Gates & Station Hardening". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. July 2023. Archived from the original on September 4, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Memorandum of Understanding" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 28, 2018.
  10. 1 2 3 "El Cerrito Plaza TOD". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. April 2024. Archived from the original on May 13, 2024.
  11. ↑ "El Cerrito Plaza Transit-Oriented Development" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. August 14, 2019.
  12. ↑ BART Transit-Oriented Development Program Work Plan: 2024 Update (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2024. p. 7.
  13. 1 2 "Transit Stops: El Cerrito Plaza Station" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Commission. March 29, 2017.

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