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Ashby station (BART)

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Platforms
  
1 island platform

Bike lockers
  
36 Lockers, 69 racks

Connection
  
AC Transit

Tracks
  
2

Ridership
  
4,999 exits/day

Ashby station (BART)

Location
  
3100 Adeline Street Berkeley, CA 94703

Owned by
  
Bay Area Rapid Transit, City of Berkeley

Connections
  
AC Transit: Routes 12, 49 (local); 800 (All Nighter, on Adeline Street); F (Transbay, on Adeline Street)

Bicycle facilities
  
racks, station, 24 shared lockers, 24 keyed reserved lockers

Address
  
Berkeley, CA 94703, United States

Lines
  
Richmond–Fremont, Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae

Parking spaces
  
715 spaces- Monthly Reserved, Daily ($1/day), Midday (free after 3pm), Extended Weekend (free), Long Term/Airport Permit ($5/day)

Owners
  
Bay Area Rapid Transit, Berkeley

Similar
  
Downtown Berkeley station, North Berkeley station, MacArthur station, 19th Street Oakland station, 12th Street Oakland City Cent

Ashby Station is a BART station, located beneath and parallel to Adeline Street, extending from Woolsey Street to Ashby Avenue in the southern part of Berkeley, California. It consists of an underground island platform. The station was originally planned to be elevated but the City of Berkeley paid the extra cost to have it built underground. Service at this station began on January 29, 1973.

Contents

The station includes park-and-ride facilities with 715 automobile parking spaces in two separate parking lots, 24 motorcycle spaces, 36 bike lockers, and bike rack spaces. Access mode shares (2002) were: 40% pedestrian, 38% automobile (park and ride), 9% automobile (kiss and ride), 8% bicycle, and 6% connecting transit.

Unique in the BART system, the City of Berkeley, rather than BART, controls the air rights on the parking lots. The west parking lot of the station hosts a popular flea market on weekends; a proposed residential development over the west lot has proven locally controversial. Between 2008 and 2010, a portion of the east parking lot was redeveloped as the Ed Roberts Campus. The Ed Roberts Campus is a regional center housing disability-related organizations in one large integrated resource center with a scope for the entire Bay Area. The east parking lot and station entrance were closed for construction on August 18, 2008. The east parking lot reopened on April 19, 2010, and the east entrance was open again before March 30, 2013.

Neighborhood

There is additional public transit in the free West Berkeley Shuttle that connects the flatlands with the BART station. Alta Bates Hospital also provides a free shuttle between the station and its Berkeley campus, which is within walking distance. That is next to the Pacific Center for Human Growth an LGBT community center.

Furthermore, attractions in the immediate vicinity include a Berkeley Bowl Grocery Store and The Berkeley Public Tool Lending Library. Restaurants and small businesses line the Shattuck Avenue corridor and a flea market is hosted on the south parking lot weekly. The Shotgun Players theater is across the street and La Peña Cultural Center is 2 blocks up the hill.

Relation with other stations and ridership figures

Below is data for average weekday entries and exits between the Ashby BART and other BART stations as of January 2017. The transit time and one-way trip cost is based on BART's fares and schedules booklet, last updated in February 2016, and valid as of January 2017. A few notes for interpretation:

  • Ashby BART primarily serves residents. Regular commuters (for work and study) therefore mainly depart from here in the morning and return in the evening. The exceptions are mostly people who work in downtown Berkeley but happen to find Ashby more convenient.
  • The following kinds of stations will have higher entry/exit counts: nearby stations, stations in downtowns (Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco), stations with transfers, end-of-line stations, and airport stations.
  • Some daily commuters don't enter and exit at the same station. For instance, commuters from Ashby who work in downtown San Francisco exit at an earlier station in the morning and enter at a station farther south when returning (e.g., exit at Embarcadero in the morning and enter at Montgomery in the evening). This is to get on a less crowded train.
  • Attractions

  • Black Repertory Theatre
  • Judah L. Magnes Museum
  • La Peña Cultural Center
  • Shotgun Players
  • References

    Ashby station (BART) Wikipedia