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BART's New Station Entrance Links to Union City TOD
Until May 12, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District’s (BART) Union City Station had only one entrance, requiring pedestrians to walk a half mile to reach fare gates.
All that changed when BART completed a new entrance into the station with fare gates and ticket machines, two new elevators, a modernized station agents’ booth and other amenities. BART and city officials marked the opening with a private event.
The new entrance is part of the city’s 17-year effort to transform the once isolated station, then surrounded by environmentally contaminated land, into a vibrant, modern facility with multiple points of pedestrian access and to anchor TOD, an area now called Station District. The new entrance also allows pedestrians to walk through the BART station to access TOD elements including housing and retail without going through a fare gate.
To complete the final connection between the station and the surrounding neighborhood, Union City is waiting for Union Pacific Railroad and the California Public Utilities Commission to issue the final permit to construct a pedestrian crossing over the railroad tracks.
The Station District comprises 120 acres of formerly vacant, industrial land surrounding the BART station with more than 1,000 new residential units, a scenic pedestrian promenade, a 24-foot pyramid play structure and a community plaza with public art. A future project will provide 1.2 million square feet of office space in three buildings at the station.
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