BALBOA PARK STATION

'Balboa Park Station' is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located south of Balboa Park in San Francisco, California. It consists of an island platform. Interstate 280 runs along the west side of the station, and City College of San Francisco is to the north.
Balboa Park is currently the busiest BART station outside of downtown San Francisco,^[2] as eight Muni bus lines stop in the area as well as three Muni Metro lines. In addition, the station is popular with passengers that kiss and ride because of the station's close proximity to Interstate 280. The station is also the southernmost station that can be ridden under a Muni FastPass as Daly City Station is just over the city border in Daly City.
Balboa Park Station is an official transfer station. Even though the four BART lines that pass through here continue on to the Daly City Station, the latter station has more train platforms. Furthermore, Balboa Park is a major transportation hub with its multiple transit connections with Muni.
Service at this station began on November 3, 1973.^[3]

Contents

Architecture

Transit connections

References

See also

External links

Architecture

Unlike most other BART stations, which are either completely underground and artificially illuminated, or are elevated with natural daylight, the station connects the underground tunnels with a large, open trench, with the station's midsection covered by the above-grade station building and the adjacent street (Geneva Avenue), allowing sunlight to penetrate to the uncovered ends of the station. Each side of the grade level is connected across the trench with arches, and a large area of the wall is surfaced with rough textured concrete.
The original architects of the station were Corlett & Spackman and Ernest Born.^[4] Born also designed the station graphics.

Transit connections

Several Muni lines stop in the area surrounding the station:

★ 9X Bayshore Express

★ 9AX Bayshore "A" Express

★ 9BX Bayshore "B" Express

★ 26 Valencia

★ 29 Sunset

★ 36 Teresita

★ 43 Masonic

★ 49 Van Ness-Mission

★ 54 Felton

★ 88 BART Shuttle

References

1. Yearly Exits, BART Station Profiles
2. Fiscal Year Weekday Average Exits Herhold, Pamela, Bay Area Rapid Transit
3. BART Chronolgy Bay Area Rapid Transit
4. ["Two BART Stations". ''Architectural Record'', November 1974]

See also

★ List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

External links

★ BART - Balboa Park Station Overview