Balboa Park Station

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View of station concourse

Balboa Park

Station statistics

Address

401 Geneva Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112

Lines

BART

Pittsburg/Bay Point - Daly City

Dublin/Pleasanton - SFO/Millbrae

Muni

Muni Metro lines loop around the yard nearby

Platforms

Island

Bicycle facilities

12 Lockers

Other information

Opened

November 3, 1973

Accessible

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.

Balboa Park is currently the busiest BART station outside of downtown San Francisco,^[1] as eight Muni bus lines stop in the area as well as three Muni Metro lines. In addition, the station is popular with passengers that kiss and ride because of the station's close proximity to Interstate 280. The station is also the southernmost station that can be ridden under a Muni FastPass as Daly City Station is just over the city border in Daly City.

Balboa Park Station is an official transfer station. Even though the four BART lines that pass through here continue on to the Daly City Station, the latter station has more train platforms. Furthermore, Balboa Park is a major transportation hub with its multiple transit connections with Muni.

Service at this station began on November 3, 1973.^[2]

1 Architectural innovation
2 Transit connections
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Architectural innovation

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Unlike most other BART stations, which are either completely underground and artificially illuminated, or are elevated with natural daylight, the Balboa Park station connects the underground tunnels with a large, open trench, covered by a roof and wall structure above grade which admits light to the lowest levels. Each side of the grade level is connected across the trench with attractive arches, and large areas of wall surfaces are surfaced with rough textured concrete suggesting the natural surface of an excavation. Beyond detail, the overall structure is evocative of grand structures and arcades as might be seen in Europe. As most passengers will be passing through this station on the train, the architecturally curious may wish to get off here to inspect the station while awaiting the next train.

The original architects of the station were Corlett & Spackman and Ernest Born.^{[citation needed]} Born also designed the station graphics.

[edit] Transit connections

Several Muni lines stop in the area surrounding the station:

15 Third Street
26 Valencia
29 Sunset
36 Teresita
43 Masonic
49 Van Ness-Mission
54 Felton
88 BART Shuttle

Previous station	Bay Area Rapid Transit	Next station
Glen Park toward Richmond	Richmond - Daly City	Daly City toward Daly City (Colma during peak hours)
Glen Park toward Pittsburg/Bay Point	Pittsburg/Bay Point - Daly City	Daly City Terminus
Glen Park toward Fremont	Fremont - Daly City	Daly City Terminus
Glen Park toward Dublin/Pleasanton	Dublin/Pleasanton - SFO/Millbrae	Daly City toward Millbrae
Previous station	Muni Metro	Next station
San Jose and Ocean toward Embarcadero	J Church	Terminus
Ocean and San Jose toward Embarcadero	K Ingleside
San Jose and Geneva (Balboa Park stop rush hours only) toward Embarcadero	M Ocean View