El Cerrito Plaza station

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	Legend
	to Millbrae
	and Warm Springs/South Fremont

El Cerrito Plaza
El Cerrito Plaza
	Platforms at El Cerrito Plaza station in 2017
Location	6699 Fairmount Avenue; El Cerrito, California
Coordinates	37°54′10″N 122°17′56″W / 37.902694°N 122.298968°WCoordinates: 37°54′10″N 122°17′56″W / 37.902694°N 122.298968°W
Owned by	Bay Area Rapid Transit
Line(s)	BART R-Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	AC Transit: 71, 72, 72M, 79, 80, 667, 668, 675, 684, G; Bear Transit: RFS
Construction
Parking	761 spaces
Bicycle facilities	30 lockers
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	January 29, 1973
Passengers
2020	4,676 (weekday average)
Services
Track layout
Track layout
	Legend
	to Millbrae
	and Warm Springs/South Fremont
Location

El Cerrito Plaza 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 opened on January 29, 1973.^[1] As with El Cerrito del Norte station, the escalator walls feature tile mosaics by Alfonso Pardiñas.^[3] UC Berkeley music professor Jorge Liderman committed suicide at the station on February 3, 2008.^[4]

Bus connections[]

AC Transit buses at the station

Busways on both sides of the station serve a number of AC Transit bus routes:^[5]

Local: 71, 72, 72M, 79, 80
Transbay: G
School: 667, 668, 675, 684

The busways are also used by the Bear Transit RFS route.^[5] 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.

References[]

^ ^a ^b "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.
^ "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2020.
^ Weinstein, Dave. "How BART got ART". CA-Modern. Eichler Network. p. 6.
^ Kosman, Joshua (February 4, 2008). "Composer Liderman dies in apparent suicide". San Francisco Chronicle.
^ ^a ^b "Transit Stops: El Cerrito Plaza Station" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Commission. March 29, 2017.