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Oakland City Center/12th Street station opened in 1972 as part of the first section of BART. In 1980–1986, the KE Track project added the third track to the station. From 1992 to 2002, and 2004 to 2010, it was the timed transfer point between northbound trains.
Interior of the station in 2018. The station is located in the southeastern part of the Jack London Square district of Oakland, California. [2] The two-track Union Pacific Railroad Niles Subdivision runs approximately northwest–southwest along Embarcadero West through Jack London Square, with a siding splitting off from the north main track (Main 2) through the station area.
The Oakland Wye is an underground flying wye junction in downtown Oakland, California which serves the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. Trains can switch between (a) the northbound Richmond or Antioch lines (first station: 12th Street Oakland City Center, underground), (b) the westbound San Francisco lines (first station: West Oakland, elevated), and (c) the southbound Berryessa or Dublin ...
12th Street Oakland City Center station; 16th Street station (Oakland) 19th Street Oakland station; C. Central Pacific Railroad Depot (Oakland) F. Fitchburg station ...
Oakland City Center is an office, shopping and hotel complex in Downtown Oakland, ... The complex is served by the 12th Street/Oakland City Center BART station.
A 1960s model of the station The 2015-built canopy at the 20th Street entrance. 19th Street Oakland station, along with Oakland City Center/12th Street and Daly City stations, was designed by Gerard McCue and Associates. [12] By August 1965, the city wanted to called the station "Oakland Downtown North", while BART preferred "Oakland-19". [13]
For decades the 16th Street station was the main Oakland station for Southern Pacific (SP) through trains, almost entirely replacing the 7th Street station. It was a companion (or "city station") for Oakland Pier, two miles away, where passengers could board ferries to San Francisco. [4] (After 1958, the ferries were replaced by buses from 16th ...
The BART Operations Control Center, located adjacent to the station. The construction of Lake Merritt station and the adjacent BART Administration Building leveled three blocks of Chinatown – one of several major displacements in the area, along with I-880, Laney College, and the Oakland Museum of California, that took place in the mid-20th century. [6]