page_title: Ohlone Greenway
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ohlone Greenway / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Amateur jungle gym, built during the People's Park Era, Ohlone Park, Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, California
context_page_description: The Ohlone Greenway is a 4.5-mile pedestrian and bicycle path in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
  The path is named for the indigenous Ohlone, who originally lived in the area.
context_section_description: For most of its length, the Ohlone Greenway runs along what was formerly a railroad right of way, and alongside the elevated tracks of the BART Richmond line. For most of this stretch, the Greenway is divided into two paths, one for pedestrians, the other for bicyclists. The segment from the North Berkeley BART station to Rose Street in north Berkeley was formerly the right of way of the Key System's "G" Westbrae line.  The segment from Rose to just north of the El Cerrito del Norte BART station was formerly the right of way of the Santa Fe Railroad (and originally, of the California and Nevada Railroad).  For about six years, from 1973–79, it was possible to see both a BART train and a Santa Fe freight train alongside each other (the BART train above on the overhead elevated tracks) in the right of way which became the Ohlone Greenway. The "linear park" was constructed in conjunction with BART, and received federal funds for landscaping and beautification.
  In late 2006, a portion of what will eventually become a branch of the Ohlone Greenway in Berkeley south to University Avenue using another segment of the old Santa Fe right-of-way was opened between University and Delaware.  In November 2007, the City of Berkeley approved the use of the old Santa Fe right-of-way south of University, extending the Ohlone Greenway branch about two blocks to Strawberry Creek Park.  
  The last segment between Cedar Rose Park and Delaware remained an undeveloped dirt right-of-way blocked by a fence at Cedar until late 2010 when construction began to close this gap.  It was opened in late 2012.
  Portions of the Greenway were closed to the public from 2011 to 2014, due to a seismic retrofit project to strengthen the elevated BART tracks.  The project was completed in January 2014.
  The link extending the Greenway west from the terminus at Baxter Creek to unite with the new Richmond Greenway, which runs along the abandoned former Santa Fe Railroad right of way to Point Richmond, was completed in 2018.
caption: Public sculpture along the Greenway dating from the People's Park annex period
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