19th Street Oakland station

19th Street Oakland
Bay Area Rapid Transit

The upper level platform of the 19th Street Oakland station, 2007
Location 1900 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
Coordinates 37°48′28″N 122°16′08″W / 37.807869°N 122.26898°W / 37.807869; -122.26898Coordinates: 37°48′28″N 122°16′08″W / 37.807869°N 122.26898°W / 37.807869; -122.26898
Owned by Bay Area Rapid Transit
Line(s)
  Richmond–​Fremont
  Richmond–​Daly City/​Millbrae
  Pittsburg/​Bay Point–​SFO/​Millbrae
Platforms 1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks 3
Connections AC Transit: Routes 1, 1R*, 11, 12, 18, 51A, 72, 72M, 72R* (local); NL (Transbay); 800, 802, 805, 851 (All-Nighter) (All routes meet at the Uptown Transit Center at 20th & Broadway)
Greyhound: bus terminal located at 20th Street and San Pablo Avenue
* - Route operates weekdays only
Construction
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened September 11, 1972
Previous names 19th Street (1972–1982)
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2013) 11,401 exits/day[1] Increase 7.19%
Services
Preceding station   Bay Area Rapid Transit   Following station
toward Richmond
Richmond–​Daly City/​Millbrae
toward Millbrae (Daly City on Saturdays)
Richmond–​Fremont
toward Fremont
Pittsburg/​Bay Point–​SFO/​Millbrae
toward SFO (Millbrae on weeknights & weekends)

19th Street Oakland[2] is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station located at 19th Street and Broadway in Downtown Oakland. It is an official northbound transfer station along the BART system, since September 13, 2010.[3]

Like the 12th Street Oakland City Center station, the concourse mezzanine is on the first level down, an island platform and two main tracks for trains bound for Richmond and Pittsburg/Bay Point are on the second level down, and a side platform and one main track for trains bound for San Francisco/Daly City/Millbrae/SFO and Fremont are on the third level down. This station is identifiable by the blue brickwork on the interior. At all times during the day, there are timed cross-platform transfers between the northbound lines, San Francisco - Pittsburg/Bay Point and Fremont - Richmond. There are no timed transfers between southbound lines, since there is only one southbound track.

The station was originally planned to have four main tracks and an island platform on each of the two levels, but budget constraints limited that idea.

A portion of Will Smith's film The Pursuit of Happyness was filmed in this station.

Passengers traveling between Fremont and SFO/Millbrae should transfer at the 12th Street Oakland City Center station rather than at 19th St. Passages from ether direction will find themselves arriving at the northbound platforms at 12th St, will disembark and descend to the southbound platform below and wait for the appropriate train to their destination.

Station layout

G Street Level Exit/Entrance
M Mezzanine One-way faregates, ticket machines, station agent
B1 Northbound →      Pittsburg/​Bay Point–​SFO/​Millbrae toward Pittsburg / Bay Point (MacArthur) →
Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
Northbound →      Richmond–​Daly City/​Millbrae toward Richmond (MacArthur) →
→      Richmond–​Fremont toward Richmond (MacArthur) →
B2
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Southbound ←      Pittsburg/​Bay Point–​SFO/​Millbrae toward SFO weekdays, Millbrae weekends (12th Street Oakland City Center)
←      Richmond–​Daly City/​Millbrae toward Millbrae weekdays, Daly City Saturdays (12th Street Oakland City Center)
←      Richmond–​Fremont toward Fremont (12th Street Oakland City Center)

Attractions

Along with 12th Street Station the station serves as an essential feeder of commuters to the job center that is downtown Oakland. Passengers have also used this to access attractions like the marijuana district of Oaksterdam, the Paramount Theatre, the Fox Theater, Oakland Museum of California, Lake Merritt, the culinary and drinking scene of Uptown and Downtown generally and the Oakland Ice Center. A temporary attraction, the Uptown Art Park sculpture garden, opened in 2013.[4]

Current and future amenities

This station will very likely see more interior retail development due to BART's ongoing relationship[5] with master planner TransMart, publicly announced January 2011. As of January 2011, the station has interior double-decker bike racks at the fare gate level, which are reused units from the Berkeley BART station.

A station canopy was added to the 20th Street and Broadway entrance in March 2015.[6] The structure was part of a $2 million pilot project to test the feasibility of installing canopies at other BART stations.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "BART Fiscal Year Weekday Average Exits". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Retrieved 2013-11-13.
  2. ↑ "19th St. Oakland Station". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Retrieved 2014-02-28.
  3. ↑ "Minor BART schedule changes on Monday, September 13". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). August 25, 2010. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
  4. ↑ Singman-Aste, Michael (July–August 2013). "Sculptures transform a former parking lot into an outdoor gallery". Oakland Magazine. Retrieved 2014-07-19.
  5. ↑ Cabanatuan, Michael (January 28, 2011). "BART may allow more businesses at stations". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  6. ↑ McGall, Andrew (March 6, 2015). "BART's Oakland escalator canopy sign of a dream". InsideBayArea News. Retrieved 26 May 2015.

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