Rockridge station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located in the Rockridge district of Oakland, California . Located in the center median of the elevated State Route 24 west of the Caldecott Tunnel , the station has a single island platform serving two tracks. It is served by the Yellow Line .
7-594: By August 1965, BART proposed to call the station "Claremont", while a city committee had rejected "College–Shafter" and "Temescal". A BART committee proposed "Rockridge" in October 1965; it was accepted by the BART Board that December. Service at Rockridge commenced on May 21, 1973, after the construction of the Berkeley Hills Tunnel was completed. Seismic retrofit work took place at the station in 2008–2009 and above
14-445: A distance of 3.1 miles (5.0 km) through a variety of rock strata, most of which are soft and porous. The earthquake-active Hayward Fault bisects the tunnel about 900 feet (270 m) inside the west portal (Oakland side). There are 2 bores, each 17.5 feet (5.3 m) in diameter, spaced 50 feet (15 m) apart. Pedestrian cross-tunnels are spaced every 1,000 feet (300 m) for emergency evacuation in case of fire, etc. There
21-681: Is a tunnel which carries Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Yellow Line through the Berkeley Hills between Rockridge station and Orinda station . While the tracks run in the median of California State Route 24 on both sides of the tunnel, the Berkeley Hills Tunnel allows the tracks to take a straighter alignment offset to the north of the Caldecott Tunnel . The tunnel bores through the Berkeley Hills east of Berkeley and Oakland
28-426: Is a ventilation structure at the east portal with roll-down doors that can close off the tunnel end to allow air to be sucked out or blown in. By 2017, cumulative minor damage from fault creep had significantly reduced the tunnel's cross section, to the point where BART determined it was necessary to plan for repair and mitigation against future creep. The work, which includes excavating the tunnel walls and realigning
35-503: The parking lots in 2015. Thirteen BART stations, including Rockridge, did not originally have faregates for passengers using the elevator. In 2020, BART started a project to add faregates to elevators at these stations. The new faregate on the platform at Rockridge was installed in July 2022. As of 2024, BART indicates "significant market, local support, and/or implementation barriers" that must be overcome to allow transit-oriented development on
42-549: The surface parking lots at the station. Such development would not begin until at least the mid-2030s. [REDACTED] Media related to Rockridge station at Wikimedia Commons This article relating to rapid transit systems in San Francisco is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Alameda County, California train station-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Berkeley Hills Tunnel The Berkeley Hills Tunnel
49-520: The tracks, is expected to cost $ 60 million. Construction of the tunnel began in early February, 1965. The bores were holed through by March, 1967, and construction completed in July, 1968. The tunnel was opened for revenue service on May 21, 1973, with the Concord line. Material removed in the construction of the tunnel was used as fill for a concurrent expansion of the Port of Oakland . On December 4, 2013,
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