19th Street Oakland (BART station)

19th Street Oakland
The upper level platform of the 19th Street Oakland station, 2007
Location	1900 Broadway Oakland, CA 94612
Coordinates
Owned by	Bay Area Rapid Transit
Line(s)
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  7.19%
Services
Preceding station   File:Bart compact logo.svg Bay Area Rapid Transit   Following station MacArthur toward Richmond Richmond–​Daly City/​Millbrae 12th Street Oakland City Center toward Millbrae (Daly City on Saturdays) Richmond–​Fremont 12th Street Oakland City Center toward Fremont MacArthur toward Pittsburg / Bay Point Pittsburg/​Bay Point–​SFO/​Millbrae 12th Street Oakland City Center toward SFO (Millbrae on weeknights & weekends)

19th Street Oakland 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.

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.

Current and future amenities

This station will very likely see more interior retail development due to BART's ongoing relationship 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. The structure was part of a $2 million pilot project to test the feasibility of installing canopies at other BART stations.

See also

• List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

External links

• BART – 19th St. Oakland Station Overview