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A recent report that grades rail transit systems in California also includes grading every BART station.

Are you regularly stuck in traffic, wishing that San Diego had better alternatives? In fact, the region has a robust rail transit network – the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) – which could serve as a vital community asset to help drive the development of transit-oriented, thriving neighborhoods and districts. But when it comes to providing opportunities for more people to take advantage of the existing system, our station areas barely make the grade.

A statewide report from the UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy and Environment, or CLEE, measuring the value public rail transit stations bring their neighborhoods ranked the Downtown Berkeley BART station among the best in BART.

Scorecard grades California rail transit stations—which stations serve as hubs of thriving neighborhoods and which don't?

SAN FRANCISCO — A new analysis of California’s rail transit systems discovers which transit stations serve as hubs of thriving, walkable areas that encourage residents and workers alike to ride the train, and which station areas need improvement.

Encouraging Californians to use the state's light-rail systems instead of driving is being promoted as one way to combat climate change. A report out today from UC Berkeley and the nonprofit Next 10 rates transit systems like the Metro in Los Angeles and BART in San Francisco, and finds that stations in downtown areas give California the most "bang for the buck" in terms of increasing ridership and fostering vibrant neighborhoods.

San Diego's transit stations got a poor review in a statewide survey measuring how well the stations encourage ridership. The report from the non-partisan group Next 10 finds the local transit station system doesn't do a good job of serving neighborhoods that can exploit transit. 

The Bay Area's two main transit systems, Muni and BART, have been graded by a new report studying transportation – and both ranked surprisingly high.

Transit stations operated by the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System have been judged the worst of the state’s six major rail transit systems for such qualities as ridership and proximity to job centers, while its Gillespie Field Station was graded the lowest overall in the state.

A new scorecard grading California transit rail stations on how well they encourage rider-ship gives Sacramento a "C." The grading is based on how well station areas connect to amenities and create walk-able areas.