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Transportation

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)

www.bart.gov The Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) is a 95-mile, automated rapid transit system serving over 3 million people in the three BART counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco, as well as northern San Mateo County.

AC Transit
www.actransit.org The Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District is the third-largest public bus system in California, serving 13 cities and adjacent unincorporated areas in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.

AC Transit has been serving the East Bay since 1960, taking over from the Key System and its predecessors, which carried passengers via buses, horse-drawn rail, electric streetcars, and ferries over the previous 100 years.

Amtrak

www.amtrak.com Amtrak serves more than 500 stations in 45 states. Those not included are Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

Grey Hound
www.greyhound.com Greyhound Lines, Inc. is the largest provider of intercity bus transportation, serving more than 2,600 destinations with 18,000 daily departures across the country.

Oakland International Airport
www.flyoakland.com For more than 70 years, Oakland International Airport has been an important force in aviation history and a contributor to the economic well being of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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