Millbrae Intermodal Terminal

Millbrae Station Millbrae Intermodal Terminal Rapid transit (BART) Commuter rail (Caltrain)
BART side of the station at night
Station statistics
Address	200 North Rollins Road (BART) Millbrae, CA 94030 100 California Drive (Caltrain) Millbrae, CA 94030
Lines	BART:   Richmond – Millbrae (Weekday Daytime Only)   Pittsburg/Bay Point – SFO/Millbrae (Evenings and Weekends only) Caltrain   Local service   Limited-stop service   Baby Bullet
Connections	SamTrans 359 390 391 397
Platforms	Caltrain/BART Cross-platform transfer
Parking	2900 spaces- Monthly Reserved, Daily ($2/day), Midday (free after 3pm), Carpool ($2/day), Extended Weekend (free), Airport/Long Term ($6/day) Caltrain ($3/day)[1]
Bicycle facilities	30 Lockers (BART) Racks available (Caltrain)
Other information
Opened	June 22, 2003 (BART) 1987 (Caltrain)
Accessible
Fare zone	Caltrain Fare Zone 2
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2010)	4,516[2] per week  0.42% (BART)
Passengers (2007)	4,917 per week  5.5% (Caltrain)
Services
Preceding station   Caltrain   Following station San Bruno toward 4th & King Local service Broadway toward Tamien Limited-stop service Burlingame toward Tamien Gilroy during peak hours South San Francisco toward 4th & King Limited-stop service Hillsdale toward Tamien Gilroy during peak hours 4th & King Terminus Baby Bullet San Mateo toward Tamien Hillsdale toward Tamien Bay Area Rapid Transit San Bruno toward Richmond Richmond – Millbrae Weekdays only Terminus San Francisco International Airport toward Pittsburg/Bay Point Pittsburg/Bay Point – SFO/Millbrae Weeknights & weekends only.

Millbrae Station (also known as Millbrae Intermodal Terminal) is an at-grade Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Caltrain station located in suburban Millbrae, California, in northern San Mateo County.

Description

Millbrae Station is the largest intermodal terminal in the United States west of the Mississippi^[3]. It consists of three ground-level main tracks for BART and two for Caltrain. An island platform provides a cross-platform connection between the two systems (for traveling north to San Francisco). An elevated concourse mezzanine is above the platforms. Currently two BART tracks and one island platform usually are kept out of regular service, used instead to hold train sets that are also out of service. However, because one of the two Caltrain tracks has only a side platform, to remove Caltrain sets from service, passengers occasionally must disembark using this island platform.

The station is also a regional bus transit hub with multiple bus bays served by several SamTrans lines.

Millbrae Station has about 2,900 parking spaces, including a five-story parking garage and surrounding surface parking. Except for the marked Reserved Parking areas, most parking is currently $2/day from 4am-3pm on weekdays for up to 24 hours at a time, and all parking (including the weekday reserved) is free without time restrictions on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays that fall on Friday or Monday. Additionally, the Reserved Parking areas cost $2/day from 10am-3pm on weekdays. Like at other BART stations with paid parking, BART patrons can do parking validations and parking payments inside the BART paid area of the station. However, since Caltrain patrons may use the same parking spaces, there are also parking payment machines outside of the BART paid area of the station.

A free Library-a-Go-Go Peninsula Library System library book vending machine was added in May 2011.^[4]

BART service

The station is the terminal station for BART on the San Francisco Peninsula with service by the BART Richmond – Millbrae Line on weekdays and the BART Pittsburg/Bay Point – SFO/Millbrae line during weeknights and on weekends. There is currently direct connection provided to the airport, during the evenings and weekends of BART service each day. A timed transfer to an airport-bound BART train, however, is provided at the San Bruno Station north of Millbrae during the day.

A BART train at the platform.

Caltrain service

The station has daily Caltrain commuter rail service along the north/south line between San Jose and San Francisco. Midday trains are hourly each way; service is more frequent during commute hours and for special events (such as San Francisco Giants home games) and is less frequent at night. Service south of San Jose to Gilroy is limited to three weekday commute-hour round trips.

CA High Speed Rail (proposed)

In recent years, California has started to plan a high-speed rail system. One of the stations would be Millbrae.

History

The Southern Pacific Millbrae depot was on the southeast side of Millbrae Ave; the building now houses the Millbrae Train Museum that opened in 2004. Before the present Millbrae Intermodal Terminal was built for the BART San Mateo Extension terminus, Millbrae offered a free connection to a Caltrain shuttle bus between the station and nearby San Francisco International Airport. (The trip is now only available on from the station via taxicab or BART, costing $4.00 via the latter as of July 2009.)

In 1985 Caltrain service began at the original Millbrae depot, replacing Southern Pacific trains that had operated along the San Francisco Peninsula since the early 20th century (see Peninsula Commute). Caltrain moved to the new facility in spring 2003 and BART joined Caltrain at the new station on June 22, 2003,^[5] as part of the BART San Mateo County Extension project that extended BART service southward from Colma to Millbrae and San Francisco International Airport.

Transit connections

Several SamTrans bus lines stop at the station, including:

• 359 - weekday peak periods service to Foster City via Hillsdale Blvd, Foster City Civic Center, Beachpark Shopping Center, Downtown Foster City, and Beach Park Blvd.
• 390 - daily local service along the El Camino Real corridor to Daly City BART (northbound) and Palo Alto Caltrain (southbound)
• 391 - daily local service along the El Camino Real corridor to Mission & Evergreen/Acton (San Francisco, northbound) and Redwood City Caltrain (southbound), with weekday peak period services to and from Transbay Terminal (Main & Folsom in San Francisco) via Mission Street and South Van Ness Avenue.
• 397 - daily owl service to Transbay Terminal (San Francisco, northbound) and Palo Alto Caltrain (southbound) via Mission Street, Potrero Blvd, Bayshore Blvd, San Francisco International Airport, the El Camino Real Corridor (between Millbrae and Redwood City Caltrain), Middlefield Rd, and East Palo Alto.

The station is also served by the Burlingame Shuttle, a local shuttle service serving nearby Burlingame.

See also

• List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

References

1. ^ http://www.bart.gov/guide/parking/index.aspx
2. ^ "BART Fiscal Year Weekday Average Exits". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). http://www.bart.gov/docs/WeekdayExits.pdf. Retrieved 28 July 2010. 
3. ^ http://www.bart.gov/stations/mlbr/index.aspx
4. ^ Library book lending machine opens at Millbrae BART Station
5. ^ untitled

External links

• Caltrain Millbrae station page
• BART - Millbrae Station Overview

Coordinates: 37°36′01″N 122°23′12″W / 37.600322°N 122.386735°W / 37.600322; -122.386735