A RIDERS GUIDE TO

Serving the bay area since septetember 11, 1972

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The heavy-rail public transit and subway system connects San Francisco with cities in the East Bay and suburbs in northern San Mateo County. BART is the fifth-busiest heavy rail rapid transit system in the United States.

bart operates 5 lines across 104 miles

80 mph

max speed

33 mph

Average speed

20 sec

STation stops

BART SYSTEM MAP

richmond
el cerrito del norte el cerrito plaza north berkeley downtown berkeley ashby orinda lafayette

pittsburg/ bay point

north concord/martinez concord pleasant hill walnut creek

rockridge macarthur (transfer station) 19th st/oakland 12th st / oakland city center (transfer station) Lake merritt fruitvale coliseum / oakland airport san leandro bay fair (transfer station) oakland international airport CASTRO VALLEY HAYWARD

W T ES D N A KL OA

RO DE A RC BA EM ST Y ER ST L OM R EL TG TE W N ON PO ON CE M SI IC ON IS M SI IS M V CI ST
colma

Balboa park (transfer station) daly city South San Francisco San Bruno (Transfer Station) sAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (SFO)

Total Cost of ORIGINAL Bart System

$1,619,000,000

The initial purchased fare is printed parallel to the Disabled Persons and children aged 4 to 12 magnetic strip, and the card's remaining balance is printed on the left, updated upon each exit.

A brief history of the tube...

The tube was constructed on land, transported to the site then submerged and fastened to the bottom (mostly by packing the sides with sand and gravel). This immersed tube technique is in contrast to bored tunneling, where rock is removed to leave a passage. It has a maximum depth of 135 feet (41 m) below the surface. The idea of an underwater tube traversing San Francisco Bay was suggested by Emperor Norton, the eccentric "Emperor of these United States and Protector of Mexico" from San Francisco, in the mid-to-late 19th century. Serious consideration to the idea was first given in October 1920 by Major General George Washington Goethals, the builder of the Panama Canal. The alignment of Goethals's proposed tube is almost exactly the same as BART's Transbay Tube.

TH 16 ST

TH 24 EN GL

RK PA

DUBLIN/PLEASANTON

SOUTH HAYWARD UNION CITY

Millbrae FREMONT

BART FARES

STANDARD DISABLED
62.5% discount

SENIORS STUDENTS
Age 65 or over. 62.5% Discount Students age 13-18 50% Discount

BART tickets are plastic, credit-card sized, with magnetically encoded value. Fare gates automatically deduct trip fares from the stored fare value on ticket. Just like a regular credit card, the magnetic BART ticket should always be kept dry and away from magnetic sources and should not be folded or bent.

TRANSBAY TUBE

ridership
WHY
TAKE
BART ?
Avoid the high costs of driving, sitting in traffic, and parking. Get where youre going on time. Help improve air quality and minimize energy consumption. Relax while we get you to your destination.

Busiest Stations
in san francisco

42,222 40,945
outside San Francisco

embarcadero montgomery

13,800 13,263
least Busy

Downtown Berkeley Oakland city center/12th st

2,764

NOrth concord/martinez

LINES
There are approximately 37 miles of track through subways and tunnels, 23 miles of aerial track and 44 of surface track (four additional miles of double track in subways and four underground stations for the S.F. Municipal Railway were constructed by BART as specified by the original 1962 plan).

BIKES
The BART system works to accommodate bicycles as much as possible. Due to crowding, bike access on BART is limited to selected times and locations shown on BART schedules (see the Fares and Schedules brochure or visit www.bart.gov for details).

Y-line: Oakland West to Millbrae 27 miles. L-line: Dublin/Pleasanton to Bay Fair, 10 miles. R-line: Richmond to MacArthur, 10.6 miles A-line: Fremont to Lake Merritt, 23.8 miles C-line Pittsburg/Bay Point to Rockridge, 29.3

riding bart
follow these simple steps
1 3 5 7

Find Your Route

2

Calculate Your Fare Enter the Fare Gate Board the Correct Train

Buy a Ticket
4

Find the Train Platform

6

Exit at Your Station

AIRPORT CONNECTIONS
GATES 60-67 TERMINAL 2 GATES 40-48

The Convenient Airbart Shuttle Travels Between Oak And The Coliseum/oakland Airport Bart Station Every 10 Minutes During The Day.

TERMINAL 3 GATES 68-90 DOMESTIC PARKING GARAGE

TERMINAL 1 GATES 20-36

sfo
BART provides San Francisco and East Bay residents with convenient and direct access to San Francisco International Airport. The SFO BART Station is located on Level 3 of the International Terminal, a short walk or AirTrain ride from domestic flights. For BART information at SFO, pick up a white courtesy telephone at any terminal and dial *1196.

oak
Oakland International Airport AirBART shuttles leave the Coliseum BART Station approximately every 10 minutes. AirBART fare is payable in cash (exact change only) or by using a BART ticket (exact fare only) from a regular BART ticket machine. For more information, call (510) 569-8310.

INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL G GATES G91-G102

INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL A GATES A1-A12

AIRTRAN STATION

SFO Airport BART Station

the future of bart

BARTs new trains will be sleek, attractive, and efficient to operate. Planned features include: ENERGY EFFICIENT
LED lighting and state -of-the-art propulsion

50% more doors

to make getting on and off faster and easier

BIKE RACKS

accommodate bicyclists during hours when bikes are permitted

More priority seating for

SENIORS/DISABLED

Improved on-board

SECURITY CAMERAS

DIGITAL DISPLAYS

showing the next stop and other passenger information INSIDE CARS.

IMPROVED PA SYSTEM
including automated announcements

FIRST PILOT CARS COMING 2015