Ashby is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located beneath Adeline Street to the south of its intersection with Ashby Avenue in South Berkeley of Berkeley, California. The station includes park-and-ride facilities with 715 automobile parking spaces in two separate parking lots.

Ashby
Ashby station platform viewed from the mezzanine level
General information
Location	3100 Adeline Street Berkeley, California
Coordinates	37.853068°N 122.269957°W / 37.853068; -122.269957
Owned by	Bay Area Rapid Transit, City of Berkeley
Line(s)	BART R-Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	AC Transit: F, 12, 18, 80, 800 West Berkeley Shuttle
Construction
Parking	715 spaces
Bicycle facilities	racks, station, 24 shared lockers, 24 keyed reserved lockers
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	January 29, 1973[1]
Passengers
2020	5,125 (weekday average)[2]
Services
Preceding station Bay Area Rapid Transit Following station MacArthur toward San Francisco International Airport via Millbrae Richmond–Millbrae+SFO line Downtown Berkeley toward Richmond MacArthur toward Berryessa/​North San José Berryessa/​North San José–Richmond line
Location

History

The station site is approximately at the historic location of Berkeley Branch Railroad's Newbury Station, which opened after 1876.[3]

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.[4] Service at Ashby station began on January 29, 1973, as part of the MacArthur to Richmond extension.[1]

Unique in the BART system, the City of Berkeley, rather than BART, controls the air rights on the parking lots. The west parking lot of the station hosts a popular flea market on weekends; a proposed residential development over the west lot has proven locally controversial.[5] 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.[6] The east parking lot reopened on April 19, 2010, and the Ed Roberts Campus and the new east entrance opened that November.[7][8]

The Berkeley City Council approved a memorandum of understanding with BART in December 2019 to begin planning for housing on the station parking lot.[9]

Station layout

The station has a single island platform 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 AC Transit routes that stop in different locations around its perimeter:[10]

• Local: 12, 18
• Transbay: F
• All Nighter: 800

The free West Berkeley Shuttle runs from the station to the West Berkeley area.[11]

See also

• List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ashby station (BART).

• BART - Ashby
• Ed Roberts Campus