Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) connects the San Francisco Peninsula with Oakland, Berkeley, Fremont, Walnut Creek, Dublin/Pleasanton and other cities in the East Bay. For more than 35 years BART has provided fast, reliable transportation to downtown offices, shopping centers, tourist attractions, entertainment venues, universities and other destinations for Bay Area residents and visitors alike.
BART connects outlying suburbs with job centers in Oakland and San Francisco by building out lines that paralleled established commute routes of the freeway system. The majority of BART service area consists of low-density suburbs. Individual BART lines were not designed to provide frequent local service. MUNI provides local light-rail and subway service within San Francisco city limits and runs with smaller headways than does BART. BART could in many ways be characterized as a "commuter subway." Many of the suburban stations—particularly those in Contra Costa County, southern Alameda County, and San Mateo County—have park and ride facilities.
A few other interesting stats from the BART website...
- 1.3 billion Number of passenger miles traveled on BART every year
- $400 million Amount of money BART riders spend in a year at San Francisco retailers
- 100 million Number of people riding BART every year
- 400,000 Metric tons of CO2 BART riders save annually
- 360,000 Average number of BART riders on a weekday
- 202,000 Gallons of gas saved by BART riders every day
- 50% Percentage of peak period/peak direction commute traffic BART carries across the Bay
- 44 Pounds of pollutants a day saved by each BART rider
- 1 out of 3 Contra Costa County commuters traveling to Oakland and San Francisco who chose BART
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