Ashby is a

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(BART) station located beneath Adeline Street to the south of its intersection with Ashby Avenue in South Berkeley of

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. The station includes

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facilities with 715 automobile parking spaces in two separate parking lots.

History

Main entrance to Ashby station, March 2018

The station site is approximately at the historic location of

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's Newbury Station, which opened after 1876. The three stations in Berkeley were originally planned to be elevated, but the City of Berkeley paid extra tax to have them built underground. The station design was controversial because it was not fully underground; the west side of the mezzanine is level with the parking lot. Service at Ashby station began on January 29, 1973, as part of the MacArthur to

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extension. Unique in the BART system, the

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, rather than

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, controls the

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on the parking lots. The west parking lot of the station hosts a popular

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on weekends; a proposed residential development over the west lot has proven locally controversial. Between 2008 and 2010, a portion of the east parking lot was redeveloped as the Ed Roberts Campus, which houses several regional disability-related organizations. The east parking lot and station entrance were closed for construction on August 18, 2008. The east parking lot reopened on April 19, 2010, and the Ed Roberts Campus and the new east entrance opened that November. The Berkeley City Council approved a memorandum of understanding with BART in December 2019 to begin planning for housing on the station parking lot.

Station layout

The station has a single

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located below ground. The fare mezzanine is located at the same level as the west parking lot; stairs and an elevator provide access from Adeline Street overhead.

Bus connections

The station is served several

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routes that stop in different locations around its perimeter: *Local: 12, 18 *Transbay: F * All Nighter: 800 The free West Berkeley Shuttle runs from the station to the West Berkeley area.

References

External links

BART - AshbyEd Roberts Campus
{{Berkeley, California Bay Area Rapid Transit stations in Alameda County, California Stations on the Berryessa/North San José–Richmond line Stations on the Richmond–Millbrae+SFO line Buildings and structures in Berkeley, California Bay Area Rapid Transit stations located underground

History

Station layout

Bus connections

See also

References

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