North Berkeley BART Station

Don’t know how to gauge this station since this was my first ever BART station visit. I gave it 3 stars due to the condition of it. Just like most stations has trash around some graffiti etc. the only real complaint I have is if you use the elevator it is on the other side of the station kind of hidden. If you are walking and not biking it is easy to get into. Loved it since it was close to my AirBnB

This is a review for the whole Bart. Bart has wonderful front office staff always. Bart is great because of its accessibility and parking as well schedule. Bart needs to massively improve its cleanliness and need to enforce non loitering. It seems that on a daily basis the seats and floors do not get wiped or mopped as you can still smell in the morning and all day trace of all kinds of body fluids. Bart would need to enforce also the ridership of patrons with valid Bart tickets and rides to ensure that seats are available legitimately as well as passenger comfort and safety. There are no Bart inspectors checking tickets. Compared to the trains in Asia and Europe, Bart needs to be massively improved hygiene and cleanliness side and ridership with valid tickets. I would pay a little bit more to make this happen.

North Berkeley BART is a convenient spot but the operators there are not always at their station. When they do show up, they are friendly.
Many new passengers have difficulty with the large gate, where you put in your ticket and it spits back out. I’ve observed a lot of people don’t know that you’re supposed to pull out the ticket to open the gate. Many times (yes MANY) this gate is not even working. I see no help at all that the BART operator gives to those people.
Considering the BART strike and their greedy demand for more money, I don’t see any better service from the station operators.
A few nights ago there was only ONE gate open, the other six were closed. A long line to that one gate and no BART station operator anywhere to open these closed gates.
Service is below par. The station itself is kept clean.
The parking lot is not that safe, with people getting their cars busted into and the homeless rummaging through the Goodwill Box at the outside of the station.
So, it’s just «OK.»

This is quite possibly my favorite BART station. It is always clean and quiet. I have never worried about my safety or security going to and from SF via this station.
Bonus points: large parking lot for the days I’m running late, however close enough to walk from my apartment! No complaints here.

North Berkeley BART is near University Avenue in Berkeley.
North Berkeley BART has a big parking lot and some buses. It is kind of perched in and could use a San Francisco line that operates on Sunday. The downstairs has an okay amount of seating and is underground for less of a burning sun.
It is near downtown Berkeley, but accessing several surrounding neighborhoods is a annoying task of unreliable buses or walking up and down hills.
The time to Oakland is okay, but the time for San Francisco is just acceptable. The station sometimes means you’ll have a seat going into San Francisco on BART and othertimes not.
Overall, the North Berkeley BART Station is a regional place, but not really to special other than that.

Probably the nicest of the stations, unless Orinda counts for you.
I wouldn’t worry about this one too much.

7 trucks. Liba, Smokey’s Old Skool BBQ, Cupcakes and more. perfect spot. Great day today. Its not dead as other reviews said. long story i guess. Come and enjoy

North Berkeley North birthday what you g to do what you’re going to do when they come bowl you get on the train that’s what you got to do

Wish I could minus stars from this station… The train itself was fine but when I went to ask the attended for help she was so rude for someone who’s in the public eye and is there to help clearly she hates her job and people. This happened Sunday January 5^th around 7:30ish pm white female older with blonde hair if u in counter her beware she has no people skills hates her job and no manners… I’ve never been treated so badly for trying to ask for help… How in this world did she get this job.

The fact that they have open restrooms means this station doesn’t reek of urine. There’s also a free shuttle to Golden Gate Fields.

If you want to park at this BART station in the morning on a weekday, make sure to get there by 7:30 or else you will run into the issue of no parking spots.

My usual choice for parking and riding on BART. Not as ghetto as El Cerrito Del Norte, Richmond or El Cerrito plaza stations. Note that this parking lot is small and it’s a 50 – 50 chance whether you’ll find parking or not. If I can’t find parking, then I park at Ashby BART sometimes however I much prefer to park and ride at this station because it’s in a better neighborhood.

Meh, I like it. It’s often as clean as a BART station can be, and it’s in a safe neighborhood. The trains don’t come by as often because it’s near the end of the line, but whatever.

I think the station is a little ghettoooo, but it is close by the uc berks campus! Usually there be some homeless people around– not a big deal.

I do like the location… right on Virginia, a nice easy downhill ride to the water
Escalator brokenness, urine smell, cranky employees all fall well within BART parameters

5 starts because my future Hubby, AKA Fake Common, is sometimes working in the attendant booth here. I hate to wish anyone else ever gets sick, but would someone please have him work for you
one day soon? I miss him.

I had been on the North Berkeley platform before, usually because I had slept through the Downtown Berkeley stop and had to get off the northbound train to catch a southbound one, but today was the first time I ever actually made full use of the station. And I mean full use.
What does John S. do when he needs to take his car to work because after work he’s dog– and house-​sitting in Marin? I could have tried to find free parking in Berkeley, but that’s kind of a crap shoot, and did I really want to be that far from my car, which isn’t a very inviting target to thieves, but this is Berkeley, and people here aren’t the brightest bunch, at least in the thievery department?
I could have gotten the $ 10 parking-​garage early-​bird special, but I was too late for it. So I decided to try the North Berkeley parking lot even though it was almost nine a.m. Guess what? At 9:02 a.m. on a Friday, there were plenty of spots left. So I paid $ 1 for parking, $ 1.75 to ride BART downtown, and $ 1.75 to ride it back. Four-​fifty for all-​day parking isn’t half bad.
The station itself is tiny. The lines for the fare machines can back up against the station agent’s booth – I really want to call it an agency – but there’s limited space, so I don’t really know what a better solution would have been. The platform itself is very ‘70s and quite OK, actually. I don’t mind that the up and down escalators aren’t near each other; the layout of the escalators and stairs are actually really interesting architecturally.

The station itself is a city block but when getting on and off, one cannot tell because there are only a few gates in the whole station.
A few people also got confused like me when we passed by Berkeley then the next stop was North Berkeley. Couldn’t they called one central and the other one north, or at least call that one something other than just Berkeley?

North Berkeley BART is A-​OK! There’s a pretty big parking lot surrounding the station, so it’s pretty convenient too if you’re driving. Though, if you go during busy times it can be hard to find a spot. I once spent about 30 minutes circling the parking lot trying to find a place to park, only to give up and attempt to find parking on one of the side streets, only to give up because nearly all of the side streets surrounding the BART station only had 2 hour parking. It was pretty sad…
But, overall, this station is relatively clean. And it seems safe! Yay. Monthly parking is also available, though a lot of the times when I was driving in to the BART stations in the mornings at like 8ish there seemed to be a lot of spots in the regular parking area and not just the reserved area.

This is my hometown BART Station and if need be I could walk here from the house. This is often my starting point to events in the City or in last night’s case, a trip with my son and Gayle to see the Warriors play.
The station itself is functional (especially if the ticket machines are working) and it’s easy to get to, get in, get down, get back, get back up, and get out! And it’s a lot cleaner, more friendly, and less creepy than the Downtown Berkeley BART station.
There’s also a huge amount of parking available (and in Berkeley no less) and a spot is usually pretty easy (and free) to get during the off hours. I haven’t had much parking trouble during prime time either and I don’t mind the walk or the modest fee that BART charges. I was also informed recently that traffic requirements are being more strictly enforced at the main entrance and that the resulting fines are not kind. I figure that it’s all part of the «milk the locals» strategy that our regional governments are trying to use to balance the budget.