Description
Millbrae Station is the largest intermodal terminal in the United States west of the Mississippi. 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.
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