El Cerrito Plaza station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in

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, located adjacent to the El Cerrito Plaza shopping center. It primarily serves southern El Cerrito, northern Albany, and Kensington, along with nearby portions of

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and Richmond. Nearly identical in form to

El Cerrito del Norte station El Cerrito del Norte station (''North Hillock'' in Spanish) is a BART station located off Cutting Boulevard near San Pablo Avenue and Interstate 80 in El Cerrito, California. The station serves as a regional transit hub for local AC Transit bu ...

, El Cerrito Plaza station has two

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s serving the line's two elevated tracks, with a fare lobby underneath. The

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runs through the station area. The station opened on January 29, 1973. As with El Cerrito del Norte station, the escalator walls feature tile mosaics by Alfonso Pardiñas.

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music professor

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committed suicide at the station on February 3, 2008. The elevators to the platforms are outside of the

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. BART plans to add a dedicated faregate for each elevator in 2022.

Bus connections

AC Transit buses at El Cerrito Plaza station, July 2018

Busways on both sides of the station serve a number of

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bus routes: *Local: 71, 72, 72M, 79, 80 *Transbay: G *School: 667, 668, 675, 684 The busways are also used by the

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RFS route. Several other AC Transit routes — including rapid route 72R, Transbay routes L and LC, and All Nighter route 800 — run on San Pablo Avenue to the west.

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External links

BART - El Cerrito Plaza
Bay Area Rapid Transit stations in Contra Costa County, California Stations on the Berryessa/North San José–Richmond line Stations on the Richmond–Millbrae+SFO line El Cerrito, California Railway stations in the United States opened in 1973 Bus stations in Contra Costa County, California {{ContraCostaCountyCA-railstation-stub