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Glen Park station

Glen Park
Glen Park station platform in March 2018
General information
Location	2901 Diamond Street San Francisco, California
Coordinates	37°43′59″N 122°26′02″W / 37.733118°N 122.433808°W / 37.733118; -122.433808
Line(s)	BART M-Line
Platforms	1island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Muni: 23, 35, 36, 44, 52, 714 atSan Jose/Glen Park
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Parking	53 spaces
Bicycle facilities	12lockers
Accessible	Yes
Architect	Ernest Born Corlett & Spackman
History
Opened	November 5, 1973 (1973-11-05)
Passengers
2024	3,213 (weekday average)[1]
Services
Preceding station Bay Area Rapid Transit Following station Balboa Park toward Daly City Blue Line 24th Street Mission toward Dublin/​Pleasanton Green Line 24th Street Mission toward Berryessa/​North San José Balboa Park toward Millbrae Red Line 24th Street Mission toward Richmond Balboa Park toward San Francisco International AirportorMillbrae Yellow Line 24th Street Mission toward Antioch via Pittsburg/​Bay Point
Location

Glen Park station is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located in the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The station is adjacent to San Jose Avenue and Interstate 280. The station is served by the Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue lines.

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

Design[edit]

The station was designed by the firm of Corlett & Spackman and architect Ernest Born in the brutalist style.^[2] Born also designed the graphics for the entire BART system. The BART Board approved the name "Glen Park" in December 1965.^[3] Service began on November 5, 1973.^[4] 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.^[5]

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.^[6]

The station was nominated in 2019 to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[7][8] The Glen Park Association submitted the application, funded by a grant from San Francisco Heritage, whose president called the station "the best example of Brutalism in San Francisco, if not the entire Bay Area."^[9]

As of 2024^[update], BART indicates "significant market, local support, and/or implementation barriers" that must be overcome to allow transit-oriented development on the surface parking lot at the station. Such development would not begin until at least the mid-2030s.^[10]

See also[edit]

• List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Media related to Glen Park station at Wikimedia Commons

• BART – Glen Park

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