Pittsburg / Bay Point (BART station)

For the DMU station in Pittsburg, see Pittsburg (eBART station).
Pittsburg / Bay Point
Bay Area Rapid Transit

The front exterior of the Pittsburg / Bay Point BART Station
Location 1700 West Leland Road
Pittsburg, CA 94565
Coordinates 38°01′08″N 121°56′39″W / 38.018869°N 121.944208°W / 38.018869; -121.944208Coordinates: 38°01′08″N 121°56′39″W / 38.018869°N 121.944208°W / 38.018869; -121.944208
Owned by Bay Area Rapid Transit
Line(s) eBART (2018)
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Construction
Parking 1992 spaces – Monthly Reserved, Daily ($1.50/day), Extended Weekend (free), Midday (free after 3pm), Carpool, and Long Term.[1]
Bicycle facilities 20 Lockers
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened December 7, 1996
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2013) 5,570 exits/day[2]Increase 5.3%
Services
Preceding station   Bay Area Rapid Transit   Following station
TerminusPittsburg/Bay Point–SFO/Millbrae
toward SFO (Millbrae on weeknights & weekends)
  Future service  
toward Antioch
eBARTTerminus

Pittsburg / Bay Point is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in the community of Bay Point, California. As the terminal station of the Pittsburg / Bay Point – SFO Line, it serves all of northern and eastern Contra Costa County, including the cities of Pittsburg, Antioch, Oakley and Brentwood, as well as the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

History

The station opened on December 7, 1996; it is in BART District 2 and is represented by Joel Keller.[3] In May 2008 a Library-a-Go-Go machine was added at this station, it is a vending machine that offers library books from the Contra Costa County Library system.[4] This was BART's first book vending machine and the first on a transit system in the nation.[4]

A child was born in the parking lot of the station on November 26, 2012.[5]

The eBART extension is an under construction DMU branch line originating from Pittsburg / Bay Point and designed to serve the eastern Contra Costa County communities. The station will be modified to include a cross-platform interchange to this service, which is scheduled to begin in 2018. The eBART line will initially go from Pittsburg / Bay Point to Antioch.[6] There is also a planned infill station in Pittsburg, as well as proposals to extend the line further east to Oakley, Brentwood, or Byron.[7]

On March 16, 2016, a mysterious surge of power on the tracks between the North Concord/Martinez station and Pittsburg/Bay Point led to several cars being taken out of service. On that date, BART halted regular service to Pittsburg/Bay Point and replaced the service with a bus bridge.[8] Limited service to Pittsburg/Bay Point resumed on March 21[9] and full service resumed on April 2.[10]

Station layout

G Street Level Exits/Entrances
M Mezzanine One-way faregates, ticket machines, station agent
P
Platform
level
Southbound      Pittsburg/Bay Point–SFO/Millbrae toward San Francisco International Airport weekdays, Millbrae weekends (North Concord / Martinez)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Northbound      Pittsburg/Bay Point–SFO/Millbrae termination track →
     eBART (under construction) toward Antioch (Pittsburg Center)

Transit connections

Several Tri Delta Transit bus lines stop at the station:

Rio Vista Delta Breeze:

See also

References

  1. http://www.bart.gov/stations/pitt/index.aspx#parking
  2. "BART Fiscal Year Weekday Average Exits" (PDF). Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  3. Bay Area Rapid Transit District Biography, BART.gov, retrieved January 23, 2008
  4. 1 2 Library-a-Go-Go comes to El Cerrito del Norte BART Station
  5. Mercury News
  6. "East Contra Costa BART Extension (eBART) Alignment". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). January 25, 2013. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  7. CDM Smith. "eBART Next Segment Study" (PDF). bart.gov. Bay Area Rapid Transit. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  8. Gafni, Matthias (29 March 2016). "BART nearing full restoration of service". Contra Costa Times. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
  9. Steve Rubenstein, "BART restores limited commute service to Pittsburg/Bay Point Station." SFGate, March 21, 2016. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-restores-limited-commute-service-to-6930975.php
  10. "BART RESUMES SERVICE AT N. CONCORD AND PITTSBURG/BAY POINT AFTER WEEKS OF REPAIRS." ABC7 News, April 2, 2016. http://abc7news.com/traffic/bart-resumes-service-between-n-concord-and-pittsburg-bay-point-/1273495/
  11. News

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