Union City (BART station)

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


image_size=
image_caption=
address=Ten Union Square
Union City, CA 94587
line=
other=AC Transit routes 97, 99, 211, 214, 216, 232, 332 (Weekends only), 333 (Newark Flexbus, operates nights only from 7pm-Midnight), 801 (All Nighter), M (Transbay)
Dumbarton Express routes DB, DB1, DB3
Union City Transit routes 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4
platform=2 Side
parking=Monthly Reserved, Daily (free), Extended Weekend, Midday (free) and Long Term
bicycle=20 Lockers
passengers=4,011 exits/day [ [http://www.bart.gov/docs/station_exits_FY.pdf Yearly Exits] , BART Station Profiles]
pass_year=FY 2007
pass_percent=2.9
opened=September 11 1972
rebuilt=
ADA=Yes
code=
owned=Bay Area Rapid Transit
zone=
services=

Union City is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located near the Decoto district of Union City. The station sits near Decoto Road east of Alvarado-Niles Road, directly behind James Logan High School's campus. This station is one of the few that has free parking. The temporary parking spaces were constructed between 2006, and opened in the Summer of 2007.

Local bus service is provided by Union City Transit and AC Transit.

Union City intermodal rail station

Service at this station began on September 11, 1972. [cite web| url=http://www.bart.gov/docs/BARThistory.pdf| title=BART Chronology| year=2005| publisher=Bay Area Rapid Transit| accessdate=2008-06-07| |format=PDF]

The station has been proposed to become a regional rail intermodal station. The intermodal station will serve BART trains, Capitol Corridor intercity trains, and Caltrain commuter rail service to the Peninsula via a new rail bridge located near the Dumbarton bridge. For now, the Dumbarton Express bus service provides service to the peninsula. [cite web| url=http://www.unioncity.org/commdev/redev_intermodal.htm| title=Intermodal Station District| publisher=City of Union City, California| accessdate=2008-06-07| ]

Officials with Bay Area Rapid Transit, AC Transit and the city of Union City, California, held groundbreaking ceremonies for the new multimodal passenger facility on November 13 2007. The project includes a conversion to solar power generation for the station's energy needs, which could make it the first station in the United States to be powered by solar energy. The construction is expected to cost $100 million and be completed in 2015. [cite journal| journal=Trains Magazine| pages=p 23| title=BART builds solar-powered rail station| month=February| year=2008| volume=68| issue=2| issn=0041-0934 ]

ee also

*List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations
* [http://www.unioncity.org/commdev/redev_intermodal.htm City of Union City Intermodal Station District] Building on years of planning, this 2007-2013 plan proposes higher quality of life development for the Union City BART station and surrounding blocks. [http://www.unioncity.org/ED/ed_intermodal.htm The plan includes] phased development of shared public space (park and community plaza), high-rise residential space and office space. This is "Transit-Oriented Development" or TOD, common in Europe and Japan, and coming soon to more US cities. If you live around here or pass by on the train, you can see some development already on both sides of the tracks.

References

External links

* [http://www.bart.gov/stations/stationguide/stationoverview_ucity.asp BART - Union City Station Overview]