El Cerrito Plaza (BART station)

Infobox Station
name=El Cerrito Plaza Station
type=Rapid transit
logo=BART_logo.png logo_size=75px

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image_size=225
image_caption=Commuters exiting station, walking past bicycle lockers
address=6699 Fairmount Avenue
El Cerrito, CA 94530
line=Rail color box|system=BART|line=Orange
other=AC Transit routes, 52L, 72, 72M, 72R*, 79, 800 (All Nighter), G* and L* (Transbay)
*"indicates routes stop nearby"
platform=2 Side
parking=Monthly Reserved Point, Daily ($1), Extended Weekend, Carpool and Long Term
bicycle=30 Lockers
passengers=4,087 exits/day [ [http://www.bart.gov/docs/station_exits_FY.pdf Yearly Exits] , BART Station Profiles]
pass_year=FY 2007
pass_percent=6.1
opened=January 29, 1973
rebuilt=
ADA=Yes
code=
owned=Bay Area Rapid Transit
zone=
services=s-rail|title=BART

El Cerrito Plaza is one of two elevated BART stations located in El Cerrito, California. It primarily serves southern El Cerrito, northern Albany, and Kensington, along with nearby areas of Berkeley and Richmond. Outside of the station is the El Cerrito Plaza shopping center.

The station hosts the first BART trial of [http://www.bikelink.org/ bikelink] on-demand electronic bicycle lockers (traditional BART lockers are leased by the year, and are almost always fully booked). These are the same lockers used by C-TRAN of Vancouver, Washington, as funded by the US EPA.

Service at this station began on January 29, 1973. [ [http://www.bart.gov/docs/BARThistory.pdf BART History] ]

On February 3rd, 2008 UC Berkeley music professor Jorge Liderman committed suicide by jumping in front of an incoming Richmond bound train at this station. [ SFGate.com. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/04/BAFGURL71.DTL "Composer Liderman dies in apparent suicide"] February 4, 2008.]

ee also

*List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

External links

* [http://bart.gov/stations/stationGuide/stationOverview_PLAZA.asp BART - El Cerrito Plaza station overview]

References