Rockridge station

Rockridge
Rockridge
	An eastbound train leaving Rockridge station in September 2019
General information
Location	5660 College Avenue; Oakland, California
Coordinates	37°50′40″N 122°15′07″W / 37.844452°N 122.252083°W
Line(s)	BART C-Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	AC Transit: 51A, 51B, 79, 605, 688, 851; Mills College Shuttle;
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Parking	903 spaces
Bicycle facilities	Racks, 72 lockers
Accessible	Yes
Architect	Maher & Martens
History
Opened	May 21, 1973
Passengers
2024	2,365 (weekday average)
Services
Location

Rockridge station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located in the Rockridge district of Oakland, California. Located in the center median of the elevated State Route 24 west of the Caldecott Tunnel, the station has a single island platform serving two tracks. It is served by the Yellow Line.

History

By August 1965, BART proposed to call the station "Claremont", while a city committee had rejected "College–Shafter" and "Temescal".^[3] A BART committee proposed "Rockridge" in October 1965; it was accepted by the BART Board that December.^[4]^[5] Service at Rockridge commenced on May 21, 1973, after the construction of the Berkeley Hills Tunnel was completed.^[6]

Thirteen BART stations, including Rockridge, 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 on the platform at Rockridge was installed in July 2022.^[7]

References

^ Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area (1st ed.). Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith. pp. 501–502. ISBN 978-1-58685-432-4. OCLC 85623396.
^ "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2024.
^ "Differences On Transit Stop Names". Oakland Tribune. August 24, 1965. p. 50 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "A Name For BART Station?". Oakland Tribune. October 20, 1965. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Names Approved for 38 Rapid Transit Stations Around Bay". Oakland Tribune. December 10, 1965. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "BART Chronology January 1947 – March 2009" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2013.
^ "New Fare Gates & Station Hardening". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. July 2023. Archived from the original on September 4, 2023.