The Ohlone Greenway is a pedestrian and bicycle path in the
East Bay
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region of the
San Francisco Bay Area
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The path is named for the indigenous Ohlone, the first people who live in the area.
Route
The Greenway begins in
Berkeley
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**University of California, Berkeley, a public university in Berkeley, California
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at the east end of
Ohlone Park
Ohlone Park is a public linear park in the city of Berkeley, California, United States. Directly underground is the subway used by the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and . It is part of the Ohlone Greenway.
Description
The park is divided into tw ...
located at Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Hearst Avenue. From there, it runs westward to the west end of the park at Sacramento and Delaware. In the segment around the North Berkeley BART Station (one block west on Delaware to Acton, then one block north on Acton to Virginia), the bike path becomes a street-running bike lane.
At Virginia, the path resumes its own dedicated course just northwest of the North Berkeley BART station and runs northwestward through the cities of Albany, and El Cerrito. It terminates at San Pablo Avenue at
Baxter Creek
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Gateway Park in
Richmond
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at the eastern end of the
Richmond Greenway
The Richmond Greenway is a pedestrian and bicycle path in Richmond, California.Key System's "G" Westbrae line. The segment from Rose to just north of the El Cerrito del Norte BART station was formerly the right of way of the
Santa Fe Railroad
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(and originally, of the California and Nevada Railroad). BART began revenue operation along the elevated tracks on January 29, 1973 and the last Santa Fe run over the route was on May 12, 1979, meaning it was possible to see both a BART train and a Santa Fe freight train alongside each other (the BART train above on the overhead elevated tracks) in the right of way which became the Ohlone Greenway. The "linear park" was constructed in conjunction with BART, and received federal funds for landscaping and beautification.
In late 2006, a portion of what will eventually become a branch of the Ohlone Greenway in Berkeley south to University Avenue using another segment of the old Santa Fe right-of-way was opened between University and Delaware. In November 2007, the City of Berkeley approved the use of the old Santa Fe right-of-way south of University, extending the Ohlone Greenway branch about two blocks to Strawberry Creek Park. The last segment between Cedar Rose Park and Delaware remained an undeveloped dirt right-of-way blocked by a fence at Cedar until late 2010 when construction began to close this gap. It was opened in late 2012.
Portions of the Greenway were closed to the public from 2011 to 2014, due to a seismic retrofit project to strengthen the elevated BART tracks. The project was completed in January 2014.
The link extending the Greenway west from the terminus at Baxter Creek to unite with the new
Richmond Greenway
The Richmond Greenway is a pedestrian and bicycle path in Richmond, California.Point Richmond, was completed in 2018.