Marin Civic Center station is a

Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) is a rail line and bicycle-pedestrian pathway project in Sonoma and Marin counties of the U.S. state of California. When completed, the entire system will serve a corridor between Cloverdale in north ...

station in

San Rafael, California San Rafael ( ; Spanish for " St. Raphael", ) is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States. The city is located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's populatio ...

, located adjacent to the

Marin County Civic Center The Marin County Civic Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is located in San Rafael, California, United States. Groundbreaking for the Civic Center Administration Building took place in 1960, after Wright's death and under the watch of Wrigh ...

History

BART Bart is a masculine given name, usually a diminutive of Bartholomew, sometimes of Barton, Bartolomeo, etc. Bart is a Dutch and Ashkenazi Jewish surname, and derives from the name ''Bartholomäus'', a German form of the biblical name ''Bartho ...

proposed a train station near the current location as part of the Marin Line in a report sent to the approving counties in 1961. Marin's exit from the

Bay Area Rapid Transit District The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, or BART, is a special-purpose district body that governs the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in the California counties of Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco. The system itself also serves nor ...

halted these plans. The current station opened to preview service on June 29, 2017; full commuter service commenced on August 25, 2017.

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External links

SMART - Marin Civic Center
Buildings and structures in San Rafael, California Railway stations in the United States opened in 2017 2017 establishments in California Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit stations in Marin County San Francisco Bay Trail {{MarinCountyCA-railstation-stub