Ashby (BART station)

Infobox Station
name=Ashby Station
type=Rapid transit
logo=BART_logo.png logo_size=75px


image_size=
image_caption=
address=3100 Adeline Street
Berkeley, CA 94703
line=Rail color box|system=BART|line=Orange
other=AC Transit routes 9 (On Ashby Avenue), 15 (On Martin Luther King Junior Way), 18 (On Shattuck Avenue), 800All Nighter(On Adeline Street) F (Transbay (On Adeline Street)
platform=Island
parking=Monthly Reserved Point, Daily ($1), Extended Weekend, Long Term/Airport Permit ($5)
bicycle=36 Lockers, 69 racks
passengers=4,286 exits/day [ [http://www.bart.gov/docs/station_exits_FY.pdf Yearly Exits] , BART Station Profiles]
pass_year=FY 2007
pass_percent=3.5
opened=January 29, 1973
rebuilt=
ADA=Yes
code=
owned=Bay Area Rapid Transit, City of Berkeley
zone=
services=

Ashby Station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station, located at Ashby Avenue and Adeline Street 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.

The station includes park-and-ride facilities with 600 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. [BART Access Evaluation System, January 2002, cited in BART Bicycle Access and Parking Plan - Volume 1, August 2002, page A-6.]

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. The east parking lot is the planned site of the Ed Roberts Campus development. [http://bart.gov/news/articles/2008/news20080721a.aspx Ashby Station east entrance and lot to close for 18 months] , BART News, August 1, 2008, accessed August 18, 2008] A regional center housing disability related organizations as one large integrated resource center with a scope for the entire Bay Area. The East Parking Lot was closed for demolition and construction on August 18, 2008 and access to the station will be temporarily closed for the expected duration of 18 months of construction planned to end in February 2010.

Service at this station began on January 29, 1973. [cite web| url=http://www.bart.gov/docs/BARThistory.pdf| title=BART Chronology| author=Bay Area Rapid Transit| date=2005-06-30| format=PDF| ]

Neighborhood Shuttles

* [http://www.westberkeleyshuttle.com West Berkeley Shuttle]
* [http://www.altabates.com/visiting/ Alta Bates shuttle]

ee also

*List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

Attractions

*Black Repertory Theatre
*Judah L. Magnes Museum
*La Peña Cultural Center
*Berkeley Iceland

External links

* [http://www.bart.gov/stations/stationGuide/stationOverview_ASHBY.asp BART - Ashby Station Overview]
* [http://www.bart.gov/stations/stationGuide/localAreaMap_ASHBY.asp BART - Ashby Station Map]
* [http://www.edrobertscampus.org Ed Roberts Campus]

Notes and references