Balboa Park BART Station Expansion Gets $6 Million in State Funds.News Editors/Government Writers OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2000 BART Directors James Fang, Tom Radulovich and Dan Richard joined San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Mayor Willie Brown The name Willie Brown may refer to:
Phase I of the two-stage project entails increasing faregate capacity at the station by reconfiguring existing faregate and adding new ones, and adding BART ticket vending machines. The Balboa Park BART Station is the fifth busiest in the 39-station BART system and the busiest outside downtown San Francisco, recording more than 25,000 BART passenger entrances and exits each weekday. When BART begins service to San Francisco International Airport “SFO” redirects here. For other uses, see SFO (disambiguation). For the television series, see . and the joint BART/Caltrain station in Millbrae, the 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. will also become an important and busy gateway to the airport and Silicon Valley. The station is also a major Muni hub for southwest San Francisco with three Muni Metro light rail lines and seven bus and trolley coach lines serving the station. The station is also a major portal to City College of San Francisco and the commercial districts on Ocean and San Jose avenues and nearby Mission Street. Designed in the 1960s with a single entry on Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. Avenue, the Balboa Park Station will receive major architectural modifications in the second phase of the planned expansion, including a new station entrance, additional stairway, escalator and elevator, BART Station Agent booth and more faregates and ticket vending machines. The station expansion will also serve as a catalyst for further neighborhood revitalization as envisioned in the San Francisco Planning Department's Transit-Oriented Community Plan. The $6 million funding is in "trailer" bills by Assemblymember Tom Torlakson (AB 2928) and State Senator Deborah Ortiz (SB 406). |
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