Walnut Creek station

Walnut Creek is an elevated BART station in Walnut Creek, California, on the Pittsburg/Bay Point – SFO/Millbrae line of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system.LocationWalnut Creek station is in Walnut Creek, a major suburb in the East Bay area of the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the largest metropolitan areas of the United States. The station itself is at the intersection of three major roads - Ygnacio Valley Road, Hillside Avenue, Riviera Avenue - and an off-ramp from Interstate 680.Transit-oriented developmentDue to Walnut Creek's high ridership and large catchment area, BART has proposed that the station be the center of a 5.3-acre (2.1-ha) transit-oriented development scheme which includes 440 residential units, 8700sqft of office space, 33000sqft of retail space, and 1,373 parking spaces.HistoryWalnut Creek station opened on 21 May 1973 as part of an extension from MacArthur to Concord.RidershipWith 7,138 exits each weekday as of 2016, Walnut Creek is the third-busiest in Contra Costa County, surpassed by Pleasant Hill and El Cerrito del Norte stations. In its 2004 comprehensive station plan for Walnut Creek, BART predicted a massive increase in ridership by 2025, estimating that over 18,000 passengers would use the station daily (both entries and exits).