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Lake Merritt station

Coordinates: 37°47′52″N 122°16′00″W / 37.797773°N 122.266588°W / 37.797773; -122.266588
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Lake Merritt
Bay Area Rapid Transit
A Richmond-bound BART train arriving at the Lake Merritt Station
General information
Location800 Madison Street
Oakland, CA 94607 USA
Owned byBay Area Rapid Transit
Line(s)
  Orange Line
  Green Line
  Blue Line
PlatformsIsland
ConnectionsAC Transit: Routes 11, 26, 62, 88 (local)
Shuttle:ECS
Construction
Parking207 spaces- Monthly Reserved Permit, Daily ($1/day), Single Daily Reserved Permit, Extended Weekend (free), Midday (free after 3pm), and Long Term/Airport Permit[1]
Bicycle facilities32 Lockers
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedSeptember 11, 1972
Passengers
FY 20136,441 exits/day[2] Increase 7.1%
Services
Preceding station   BART   Following station
Template:BART lines
Template:BART lines
Template:BART lines

The Lake Merritt Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station is located in Downtown Oakland on Madison Street near Chinatown, Laney College, The Oakland Museum of California, and the iconic Lake Merritt. This station consists of an island platform.

Service at this station began on September 11, 1972.[3]

The BART headquarters was located in a dedicated six-story office building constructed concurrently on top of the station; many years later, due to potential risk of earthquake, the headquarters was moved away from the station to leased space on the first floor of the Kaiser Center, 0.75 miles away (1,200 m). A relatively careful dismantling of the former headquarters building (so as not to impact transit operations) was completed in 2010.[4]

Lake Merritt is also the first southbound transfer opportunity for passengers transferring between the Richmond-Fremont and Dublin/Pleasanton lines.

Station layout

G Street Level Exits/Entrances
M Mezzanine One-way faregates, ticket machines, station agent
P
Platform
level 		Northbound/Westbound ← Template:BART icon toward Richmond (12th Street Oakland City Center)
← Template:BART icon toward Daly City (West Oakland)
← Template:BART icon toward Daly City (West Oakland)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Southbound/Eastbound → Template:BART icon toward Fremont (Fruitvale) →
→ Template:BART icon toward Fremont (Fruitvale) →
→ Template:BART icon toward Dublin / Pleasanton (Fruitvale) →

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.bart.gov/stations/lake/index.aspx#parking
  2. ^ "BART Fiscal Year Weekday Average Exits" (PDF). Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  3. ^ BART History
  4. ^ "Silverado—BART LMA Demolition". Retrieved 2015-09-13.

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