Transportation 

Conference Location

Clark Kerr Conference Center

2601 Warring Street

Berkeley, CA  94720

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Getting From the Airport to the Conference

For those of you flying in, we recommend that you take the BART from the airport and then connect to our conference shuttle or a cab. If you are arriving Friday between 9am and midnight, we will be providing shuttle service from the Ashby BART station, which is one station before the Downtown Berkeley Station. Read the shuttle information below.

This just in! We are providing a shuttle on Thursday night, from 5-9pm.

From SFO via BART:

Arriving Thursday between 5am and 9pm:

• Take a Richmond BART Train to the Ashby BART station. Exit the station on the parking lot side. Look for the shuttles marked "USFWC CONFERENCE."

Arriving Friday between 9am and midnight:

• Take a Richmond BART Train to the Ashby BART station. Exit the station on the parking lot side. Look for the shuttles marked "USFWC CONFERENCE."

Arriving outside of the shuttle times you have two options:

• BART + CAB: Take a Richmond BART Train to the Ashby BART station. Exit the station and ask one of the cabs at the curb to take you to the Clark Kerr Conference Center at Warring and Derby.
  OR
• BART + BUS: Take a Richmond BART train to the Downtown Berkeley station.  Exit the station and walk one block South on Shattuck to the North West corner of Shattuck & Alston.
•  From the North West corner of Shattuck and Alston, take the 51B bus to College and Parker.
• From College and Parker, walk 3 blocks East (towards the hills) on Parker to the Clark Kerr Campus and Conference Center.
• PLEASE NOTE: BART stops running around 12:20am. If you arrive after that time, you can take a cab. (See info on cabs and taxis below.)

From Oakland Airport via BART:

Arriving Thursday between 5am and 9pm:

• Walk to the bus pick up area outside the terminal and board the AirBART bus. (The AirBART bus requires $3 exact change -- be sure to bring this with you if you are traveling to Oakland Airport.) 
• Take a Richmond BART Train to the Ashby BART station. Exit the station - you will be looking at a parking lot. Look for the shuttles marked "USFWC CONFERENCE."

Arriving Friday between 9am and midnight:

• Walk to the bus pick up area outside the terminal and board the AirBART bus. (The AirBART bus requires $3 exact change -- be sure to bring this with you if you are traveling to Oakland Airport.) 
• Take a Richmond BART Train to the Ashby BART station. Exit the station - you will be looking at a parking lot. Look for the shuttles marked "USFWC CONFERENCE."

Arriving outside of the shuttle times you have two options:

• BART + CAB:  Walk to the bus pick up area outside the terminal and board the AirBART bus. (The AirBART bus requires $3 exact change-- be sure to bring this with you if you are traveling to Oakland Airport.)
• The AirBART Bus will drop you off at the Oakland Coliseum BART station. From there, board a Richmond BART train and take it to the Ashby BART station. Exit the station and ask one of the cabs at the curb to take you to the Clark Kerr Conference Center at Warring and Derby.
  OR
• BART + BUS: Walk to the bus pick up area outside the terminal and board the AirBART bus. (The AirBART bus requires $3 exact change-- be sure to bring this with you if you are traveling to Oakland Airport.)
• The AirBART Bus will drop you off at the Oakland Coliseum BART station. From there, board a Richmond BART train and take it to the Downtown Berkeley station.  Exit the station and walk one block South on Shattuck to the North West corner of Shattuck & Alston.
• Exit the station and walk one block South on Shattuck to the North West corner of Shattuck & Alston
• From the North West corner of Shattuck and Alston, take the 51B bus to College and Parker
• From College and Parker, walk 3 blocks East (towards the hills) on Parker to the Clark Kerr Campus and Conference Center.
• PLEASE NOTE: BART stops running around 12:20am. If you arrive after that time, you can take a cab. (See info on cabs and taxis below.)

Parking/If you're driving:
There is limited street parking around the conference center, and it is all 2-hour parking. If you plan to park on the street around the conference center, plan to move your car every two hours to avoid a ticket. You can also park at the Ashby BART station lot and take the shuttle to the conference center. Or you purchase an on-site parking permit for $14/day. If you want a parking permit, please let us know ahead of time. The conference services office will not be open on Saturday so you will need to get your on-site permit by Friday afternoon.

Conference Shuttles

Announcing Thursday Shuttles!
5pm to 9pm every 30 minutes

Friday BART Station Pick-ups

We will provide a shuttle between the Ashby BART station and the conference center Friday, August 6th from 9am to midnight. Shuttles will run approximately every 30 minutes from 9am to midnight. Take BART to the Ashby station. Exit the station and wait at the curb (facing the parking lot) for a US Federation of Worker Cooperatives marked shuttle.

We hope to provide shuttles on Thursday night as well, but this is not confirmed. We will post a shuttle update by Monday, 8/2.

Friday Shuttles to the Evening Events

We will provide a limited number of shuttles from the Jim Hightower event to the Friday night party at the Li Po lounge in San Francisco. There will also be a limited number of shuttles from the Friday night party to the San Francisco BART, and back to the conference site. Check in at the registration desk for shuttle departure times and locations.

Getting Around the Bay

511.org

Useful for figuring out all of your transporation needs in the bay. Includes a public transit trip planner, as well as information on traffic, biking and walking routes, rideshares, and more.

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)

Provides rapid train service throughout the greater Bay Area. WARNING: BART service stops at about 12:20am each night.

AC Transit

Provides bus service throughout the East Bay and all of Alameda County. Most buses run all night, including one bus that goes to and San Francisco all night long.

Muni

San Francisco municipal transportation-- provides bus and rail service throughout San Francisco. Does not provide transportation across the bay to the East Bay.

Cabs
SF Green Cab-- A worker owned cooperative. Services San Francisco.
415-626-GREEN (4733). Be sure to tell the dispatcher you'd like a Green Cab. (It's a city-wide dispatch service that uses multiple cab companies.)
Yellow Cab SF , 415-333-3333. Services all Bay Area airports.
Air Express Cab, 510-485-4848. Services the East Bay.
Bay Area Checker Cab, 510-612-6546. Services the East Bay.