Glen Park station

Glen Park station is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located in the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco, California adjacent to San Jose Avenue and Interstate 280. The station has a single island platform.

Glen Park
Glen Park station platform in March 2018
Location	2901 Diamond Street San Francisco, California
Coordinates	37.733118°N 122.433808°W / 37.733118; -122.433808
Line(s)	BART M-Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Connections	Muni: 23, 35, 36, 44, 52, 714 At San Jose/Glen Park:  J Church
Construction
Parking	53 spaces
Bicycle facilities	12 lockers
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	November 5, 1973
Traffic
Passengers (2020)	7,680 (weekday average)[1]
Services
Preceding station Bay Area Rapid Transit Following station Balboa Park toward Millbrae Richmond–​Millbrae 24th Street Mission toward Richmond Balboa Park toward Daly City Dublin/​Pleasanton–​Daly City 24th Street Mission toward Dublin/​Pleasanton Balboa Park toward San Francisco International Airport Antioch–​SFO/​Millbrae 24th Street Mission toward Antioch via Pittsburg/​Bay Point Balboa Park toward Daly City Berryessa/​North San José–​Daly City 24th Street Mission toward Berryessa/​North San José
Location

San Jose/Glen Park station on the Muni Metro J Church line is located nearby in the median of San Jose Avenue.

Design

Glen Park station under construction in 1970

The station was designed by Corlett & Spackman and Ernest Born in the brutalist style. Born also designed the station graphics. Service began on November 5, 1973.[2] The November 1974 Architectural Record wrote of the station:

The dramatic volume of the station–one of the deepest in the system–unfolds at the escalator wells, where the full height (60 feet or 18 m) of the structure is visible. During the day, daylight from the skylights, one over the mezzanine, the other over the end escalator, pours in to the lower platform, an extraordinary sight in a subway.[3]

Born designed a marble mural at the west end of the mezzanine. "100 pieces, few of which are cut at right angles, in warm brown and red-brown tones, make it up". The mural is prominently featured in a scene of the 2006 Will Smith film The Pursuit of Happyness.

The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

See also

• List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

References

1. "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2020.
2. "BART Chronology January 1947 – March 2009" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2013.
3. "Two BART Stations". Architectural Record, November 1974.

External links

Media related to Glen Park station at Wikimedia Commons

• BART - Glen Park