Richmond–Millbrae line

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Richmond–Millbrae line

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     Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae line
Overview
Type rapid transit
System Bay Area Rapid Transit
Locale Bay Area including Richmond, El Cerrito, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, Daly City, Colma, South San Francisco, San Bruno, and Millbrae
by county: Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco and San Mateo
Termini Richmond
Millbrae (weekdays daytime)
Daly City (Saturday daytime)
Stations 23
Operation
Opened July 7, 1980
Operator(s) BART
Technical
Track gauge 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) (broad)
Electrification third rail
Highest elevation underground, elevated, at grade, underwater (Transbay Tube)
Route map
Continuation backward
Station on track + Hub
Urban head station + Hub
RichmondAmtrak
Unknown BSicon "MCONTl" Unknown BSicon "AKRZu" Unknown BSicon "uAKRZu" Unknown BSicon "MCONTr"
Interstate 80
Continuation forward Unknown BSicon "uhBHFa"
El Cerrito del Norte
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El Cerrito Plaza
Unknown BSicon "uhTUNNELa"
Urban tunnel station on track
North Berkeley
Urban tunnel station on track
Downtown Berkeley
Urban tunnel station on track
Ashby
Unknown BSicon "uhTUNNELe"
Unknown BSicon "MCONTl"
Unknown BSicon "uhSTR" + Unknown BSicon "uAKRZu"
Unknown BSicon "MCONTr"
California State Route 24
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Pittsburg/Bay Point–SFO/Millbrae
Unknown BSicon "uhBHFe" + Unknown BSicon "uINT"
MacArthur(southbound transfer)
Unknown BSicon "MCONTl" Unknown BSicon "uAKRZu" Unknown BSicon "MCONTr"
Interstate 580 Interstate 980 California State Route 24
Enter urban tunnel
Unknown BSicon "utINT"
19th St/Oakland(northbound transfer)
Urban tunnel station on track
Oakland City Center/12th St
Urban tunnel junction to left Urban tunnel continuation to left
Richmond–Fremont
Unknown BSicon "utABZrg" Urban tunnel continuation to left
Fremont–DC, Dubln/Pleasntn-DC
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Unknown BSicon "MCONTl"
Unknown BSicon "uhSTR" + Unknown BSicon "uAKRZu"
Unknown BSicon "MCONTr"
Interstate 880
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West Oakland
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Interstate 880
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Urban tunnel below water
Transbay Tube
Urban tunnel continuation backward Urban tunnel straight track
Urban tunnel station on track + Hub
Urban tunnel station on track + Hub
EmbarcaderoMuni Metro
Urban tunnel station on track + Hub
Urban tunnel station on track + Hub
MontgomeryMuni Metro
Urban tunnel station on track + Hub
Urban tunnel station on track + Hub
PowellMuni Metro
Urban tunnel station on track + Hub
Urban tunnel station on track + Hub
Civic Center/UN PlazaMuni Metro
Urban tunnel continuation forward Urban tunnel station on track
16th Street-Mission
Urban tunnel station on track
24th Street-Mission
Urban continuation backward Urban tunnel station on track
Glen Park
Urban station on track + Hub
Unknown BSicon "utINT" + Hub
Balboa Park(transfer) Muni Metro
Urban continuation forward Unknown BSicon "uhTUNNELe"
Unknown BSicon "uhBHFe"
Daly City
Urban station on track
Colma
Unknown BSicon "MCONTl" Unknown BSicon "uhAKRZoa" Unknown BSicon "MCONTr"
California State Route 82El Camino Real
Unknown BSicon "uhTUNNELa"
Urban tunnel station on track
South San Francisco
Unknown BSicon "utINT"
San Bruno(transfer station)
Exit urban tunnel
Unknown BSicon "uABZgl+l" Urban continuation to left
Pittsburg/Bay Point–SFO/Millbrae
Continuation backward Unknown BSicon "uTUNNEL1"
Right side of cross-platform interchange + Hub
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MillbraeCaltrain
Continuation forward

The Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae line of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area consists of 23 metro stations from Richmond to Millbrae. It passes through El Cerrito, Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco, Daly City, Colma, South San Francisco, San Bruno, and Millbrae. Throughout its journey, it shares its tracks with other lines.

Services and history

This line operates during the daytime, Monday through Saturday, but the line terminates in Daly City on Saturdays. There is no service on weeknights, Saturday nights, or at any time on Sundays. For service to/from Richmond and Daly City/San Francisco at those times, passengers must transfer between the Pittsburg/Bay Point Line and the Richmond - Fremont Line.

When BART opened the extension to the San Francisco International Airport on June 22, 2003, this line continued to terminate at the Daly City Station. On February 9, 2004, to attract more riders, BART extended this line's service to the airport and Millbrae during peak hours. The original service plan for this line was for trains to go straight from San Bruno to Millbrae, travel to the airport, and then go back towards San Francisco. This was changed a few months later to allow trains both coming and going from Millbrae to stop at the airport. However, BART, at the urging of SamTrans (which pays the operating expenses for BART's SFO extension), announced on August 11, 2005, that it was scaling back service on this line; starting September 12, 2005, all Richmond trains once again terminated at Daly City Station.

On January 1, 2008, this line became identified on maps as the Richmond–Millbrae Line, which includes service to/from all the stations between Daly City and Millbrae (with the exception of the San Francisco International Airport which is served by the Pittsburg Bay Point Line during all periods of operations) on weekdays only. [1] The Dublin/Pleasanton Line terminated at Daly City as of September 14, 2009 with Pittsburg Bay Point lines extended to Millbrae on nights, weekends, and holidays.

BART lines are usually not referred to by the color that identifies them on official system maps, so this line is rarely called the Red Line, and the term is never used by BART officials. It is sometimes called the Richmond Line.

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