Walnut Creek | |||||||||||
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Location | 200 Ygnacio Valley Road Walnut Creek, California | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°54′21″N 122°04′02″W / 37.905724°N 122.067332°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District | ||||||||||
Line(s) | BART C-Line | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
Parking | 2,089 spaces | ||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 64 lockers | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
Architect | Gwathmey, Sellier & Crosby Joseph Esherick & Associates [1] | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | May 21, 1973 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2024 | 2,637 (weekday average) [2] | ||||||||||
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Walnut Creek station is an elevated Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in Walnut Creek, California, served by the Yellow Line. The station is located north of downtown Walnut Creek, adjacent to Interstate 680 and near the Ygnacio Valley Road and California Boulevard arterial roads.
The BART Board approved the name "Walnut Creek" in December 1965. [3] Walnut Creek station opened on May 21, 1973 as part of an extension from MacArthur to Concord. [4]
Due to Walnut Creek's high ridership and large catchment area, BART proposed in 2004 that the station be the center of a transit-oriented development scheme which includes 440 residential units, 8,700 sq ft (810 m2) of office space, 33,000 sq ft (3,100 m2) of retail space, and 1,373 parking spaces. [5] A parking lot on the west side of the station closed on February 3, 2018. A 900-space parking garage was constructed in its place, which allowed other parking lots to be closed for the new development. [6] The new garage, which includes a three-lane bus plaza, opened on March 29, 2019. [7]
Walnut Creek station has two side platforms with two tracks. Access to the tracks is provided by a staircase, escalator, and elevator from the mezzanine, which houses nine faregates. [5] Sustained patronage at the station has caused it to become overcrowded; BART is planning on building a second entrance, including new faregates and platform access to relieve possible emergency hazards. [5]
Thirteen BART stations, including Walnut Creek, did not originally have faregates for passengers using the elevator. In 2020, BART started a project to add faregates to elevators at these stations. The new faregate at Walnut Creek was installed in September 2022. [8]
Walnut Creek is a transfer point for a number of County Connection local and express routes:
The station is also served by the SolTrans Solano Express Yellow Line.
All buses stop in the busway inside the south garage. [9]
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