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Would a picture be useful/helpful? I have a picture of the transfer area for heading into SF, taken from the Caltrain southbound platform looking at the cross-platform transfer section in the BART/Caltrain northbound island platform.
http://www.stanford.edu/~jvittes/photos/DSCF0350.JPG
- Jorge
From what I can gather train service has existed at this station since 1864 [1] [2], first from the San Francisco and San Jose Rail Road, then the Southern Pacific Peninsula Commute, then Caltrans contracted with SP in 1980, then in 1985 changed the name to Caltrain, and in 1992 it was given to the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board. So the question is what should be listed as the starting service time? -- JVittes 10:41, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
What do the passenger numbers in the infobox indicate? Average daily use? Surely there were more than 3,300 BART passengers over an entire year. -- Jfruh ( talk) 22:28, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
How can I add information in this page about parking at this station being more economical than parking for longer than 36 minutes inside SFO itself, without sounding like an advertisement ? Parking inside SFO is $1 every 12 minutes. Riding BART from Millbrae to SFO is $3 round-trip, and parking is free for a single 24-hour time period. It seems like BART has not been informing the general public enough about this kind of information. I guess BART does not want to advertise its own short-term parking and create competition with SFO's own short-term parking facilities.
If more and more of the general public discovers this fact, I think BART may consider restoring direct Millbrae-SFO service next year. The more people that know, the more people will use it, and the more likely that people will demand that direct service between Millbrae and SFO be restored.
And again, I do not want to be accused of making it sound like an advertisement in the article.
Any advice, people?
Native94080 ( talk) 08:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)Native94080
The article intro starts saying Millbrae is the "largest intermodal terminal in the United States west of the Mississippi in terms of station facilities and acreage". Well, acreage is pretty much just a trivia item when talking about rail stations. I agree with the editor who just tagged that as needing a citation. (I hadn't paid attention to this article in a long time - but it got on my watchlist after I cleaned up a category recently.) Actually, I'm fairly certain the statement needs to be removed and rewritten. Claiming the "largest intermodal terminal" would have to be measured by number of tracks, since the definition of intermodal is that there's more than one type/mode. The fancy concrete structures and large parking lot (typical of any BART end-of-the-line station) don't mean Millbrae has more significant facilities than intermodal stations with more tracks/platforms. I found five which exceed Millbrae's number of tracks/platforms... Union Station (Los Angeles) [16 tracks: 2 MTA LRT + 12 MetroLink/Amtrak + 2 Red Line subway], San Francisco 4th and King Street Station (14 tracks: 12 Caltrain + 2 Muni LRT), San Jose Diridon Station [7 tracks: 2 VTA LRT + 5 Caltrain/ACE/Amtrak], Union Station (San Diego) [6 tracks: 4 Coaster/Amtrak + 2 SD Trolley LRT], Union Station (Dallas) [6 tracks: 4 TRE/Amtrak + 2 DART LRT]. (Some of those are from sat imagery.) I also looked at Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake and Denver. There are other cities west of the Mississippi too. But more analysis really isn't necessary - I'm fairly sure the title this page claims (even the way the writer originally meant it) really goes to Los Angeles. Ikluft ( talk) 21:56, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
The application linked only is stamped as accepted - not approved, and it doesn't appear in the article List of National Historic Landmarks in California. Mjdestroyerofworlds ( talk) 03:07, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
The SFO–Millbrae (purple?) line no longer runs, instead the Red and Yellow line connect to SFO. The first paragraph should be updated. I don't have time to do this right now, but can get to it later unless someone else does first.