Rockridge station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located in the Rockridge district of Oakland, California. Located in the center median of the elevated State Route 24 west of the Caldecott Tunnel, the station has a single island platform serving two tracks. It is served by the Yellow Line.
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 An eastbound train leaving Rockridge station in September 2019 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 5660 College Avenue Oakland, California | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°50′40″N 122°15′07″W / 37.844452°N 122.252083°W | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | BART C-Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
| Parking | 903 spaces | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Racks, 72 lockers | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| Architect | Maher & Martens[1] | ||||||||||
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| Station code | BART: ROCK | ||||||||||
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| Opened | May 21, 1973 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2024 | 2,500 (weekday average)[2] | ||||||||||
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History
editBy August 1965, BART proposed to call the station "Claremont", while a city committee had rejected "College–Shafter" and "Temescal".[3] A BART committee proposed "Rockridge" in October 1965; it was accepted by the BART Board that December.[4][5] Service at Rockridge commenced on May 21, 1973, after the construction of the Berkeley Hills Tunnel was completed.[6]
Seismic retrofit work took place at the station in 2008–2009 and above the parking lots in 2015.[7][8][9] Thirteen BART stations, including Rockridge, did not originally have faregates for passengers using the elevator. In 2020, BART started a project to add faregates to elevators at these stations. The new faregate on the platform at Rockridge was installed in July 2022.[10]
As of 2024[update], BART indicates "significant market, local support, and/or implementation barriers" that must be overcome to allow transit-oriented development on the surface parking lots at the station. Such development would not begin until at least the mid-2030s.[11]
References
edit- ^ Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area (1st ed.). Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith. pp. 501–502. ISBN 978-1-58685-432-4. OCLC 85623396.
- ^ "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. June 2024.
- ^ "Differences On Transit Stop Names". Oakland Tribune. August 24, 1965. p. 50 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "A Name For BART Station?". Oakland Tribune. October 20, 1965. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Names Approved for 38 Rapid Transit Stations Around Bay". Oakland Tribune. December 10, 1965. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Earthquake Safety Program Construction Updates (archive)". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. 2009.
- ^ "Earthquake safety work begins at Rockridge Station" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. November 20, 2008.
- ^ "Earthquake safety work in Rockridge parking lot" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. September 15, 2015.
- ^ "New Fare Gates & Station Hardening". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. July 2023. Archived from the original on September 4, 2023.
- ^ BART Transit-Oriented Development Program Work Plan: 2024 Update (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2024. p. 17.
External links
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