Martinez (Amtrak station)

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Martinez

Station statistics

Address

601 Marina Vista Avenue
Martinez, CA 94553

Lines

California Zephyr

Capitol Corridor

Coast Starlight

San Joaquins

Other information

Accessible

Code

MTZ

Traffic

Passengers (FY2007)

380,477 ▲ 32% (Amtrak)

Services

Preceding station	Amtrak	Following station
Richmond toward San Jose	Capitol Corridor	Suisun/Fairfield toward Auburn
Richmond toward Oakland – Jack London Square	San Joaquins	Pittsburg-Antioch toward Bakersfield
Emeryville Terminus	California Zephyr	Davis toward Chicago
Emeryville toward Los Angeles	Coast Starlight	Davis toward Seattle

Martinez Station is a rail station in Martinez, California, the county seat of Contra Costa County. It is served by 44 Amtrak trains per day, including Capitol Corridor trains, San Joaquins, the California Zephyr and the Coast Starlight. The station is served by local County Connection bus service and connecting service from Benicia Breeze, WestCAT, WHEELS, and Tri-Delta Transit. The station was remodeled in the late 1990s, improving its aesthetic appeal. The station includes a transit center for the buses, kiss and ride areas for rides and taxis, and extensive surface level parking.

There are plans to use Measure J monies to build a Ferry Terminal and begin a ferry service to San Francisco from this waterfront station on the Suisun Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers Delta of the San Francisco Bay. This would make the station a bus, ferry, and rail intermodal transit hub.^[1]^[2]

The proposed wBART is an extension of BART service through connecting heavy DMU rail from current terminals. wBART may run thru Martinez on its way to Solano County via the Benicia-Martinez Railbridge if it is extended beyond the preliminary terminal in nearby Hercules.^[3]