19th Street Oakland (BART station)

19th Street Oakland
The upper level platform of the 19th Street Oakland station, 2007
Station statistics
Address	1900 Broadway Oakland, CA 94612
Coordinates	37.807869°N 122.26898°W / 37.807869; -122.26898
Lines	Richmond–Fremont   Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae   Pittsburg/Bay Point–SFO/Millbrae
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
Platforms	1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Other information
Opened	September 11, 1972
Accessible
Owned by	Bay Area Rapid Transit
Formerly	19th Street (1972–1982)
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2010)	9,161 exits/day  1.55%
Services
Preceding station   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.^{[citation needed]}

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

Passengers from Millbrae bound for Fremont transfer trains at 12th Street and passengers from the Fremont line transfer the Pittsburg/Bay Point line at 12th Street on nights and weekends.

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 future attraction, the Uptown Art Park/Sculpture Garden is slated to open in the fall of 2011.

Entertainers

There are typically two musicians or singers working rush hour at 19th Street station. For the winter 2011 season there is a Mexican guitarist in the mornings and a Juliard-trained operetto in the evenings.

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.

External links

• BART – 19th St. Oakland Station Overview