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 Northbound Orange Line and Yellow Line trains at the upper platform in 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 1900 Broadway Oakland, California | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°48′28″N122°16′08″W / 37.807869°N 122.26898°W /37.807869; -122.26898 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | BART K-Line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform (upper level) 1side platform (lower level) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 (2 on upper level, 1 on lower level) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  AC Transit: NL,Tempo, 6, 12, 18, 51A, 72, 72L, 72M, 88800,802,805,851 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Racks,bike station,lockers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architect | Gerald McCue & Associates[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | BART:19TH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | September 11, 1972 (1972-09-11) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1980–1986, 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2025 | 5,513 (weekday average)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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19th Street Oakland station (signed as19th St/Oakland) is an undergroundBay Area Rapid Transit (BART)station located under Broadway between 17th Street and 20th Street in theUptown District ofOakland, California. It is atimed transfer point between northbound trainsto Richmond andto Antioch. The station has three underground levels, with tracks on the second and third levels. It is served by theRed Line,Orange Line, andYellow Line, as well as byAC Transit buses on the surface at theUptown Transit Center.
The 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. Changes during the 2010s included public art at one entrance, a new canopy at another entrance, and opening of abike station. A 2019–2023 modernization project included a new elevator and reopened public restrooms.Tempobus rapid transit service began in 2020.
The station has three underground levels. The first level is a concourse with ticket machines and faregates. Anisland platform and two main tracks (C1 and CX) for northbound trains (bound forRichmond andAntioch) are on the second level. Aside platform with one track (C2) for southbound trains (bound forBerryessa or San Francisco) is on the third level.[3][4] The station has blue brickwork, contrasting with the red of nearby12th Street Oakland City Center station.[5]
The station has six public entrances: two at 20th Street, two at 19th Street, and two at 17th Street (one in an alley connecting to Telegraph Avenue).[3] A surface elevator is located near 17th Street on the east side of Broadway; platform elevators are located at both ends of the station.[3][6]: 13 [7] There is a direct entrance from the mezzanine level to the 1970 Broadway building, as well as a disused entrance to 1955 Broadway.[6]: 15 A 130-space valet parkingbike station is located in a storefront at 19th Street, across Broadway from a station entrance.[8]
The surface streets around 19th Street Oakland station are a major transfer point forAC Transit buses. TheUptown Transit Center, located on 20th Street west of Broadway, consists of six large shelters built in September 2006 to improve the ease of transfers.[9][10] A number of routes stop on 20th Street shelters and/or on Broadway at the station:[11]
Tempo route 1T service uses dedicated platforms on Broadway. The southbound platform is just south of 20th Street; the northbound (terminating) platform is between 17th Street and 19th Street.[11]
19th Street Oakland station, along withOakland City Center/12th Street andDaly 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] In October 1965, a BART committee recommended "19th Street".[14] The BART Board approved19th Street Oakland as the name that December.[15] The station opened on September 11, 1972, as part of the first section of BART to open; service was extendedto Richmond the next year.Service to Concord was added on May 21, 1973, and extended to San Francisco through theTransbay Tube on September 16, 1974.Richmond–San Francisco service was added on April 19, 1976.[16]
The station was initially built without an elevator between the mezzanine and street level because the city of Oakland refused to allow elevator kiosks on the sidewalks.[17][18] In March 1972, BART reached an agreement withThe Bank of Tokyo for an easement to build an elevator in the building the bank was constructing at 1750 Broadway.[19][20] The bank building and elevator opened on April 30, 1973; a remote teller window at the mezzanine level opened soon afterwards.[21]
The station initially had oneside platform on each level, with one track on the east side of each platform. The KE Track project, begun in 1980 and completed on March 17, 1986, converted the upper platform to anisland platform with a new west track (Track CX).[22][4] The new track was originally used for peak hour service (southbound towards San Francisco in the morning, and northbound in the evening).[23]
Schedule changes on June 22, 1992, introducedtimed transfers betweenRichmond–Fremont line andConcord–Daly City line trains; Oakland City Center/12th Street was the transfer point between northbound (Richmond-bound and Concord-bound) trains, whileMacArthur station was the transfer point between southbound trains.[24][16]: 35 On September 13, 2010, the northbound transfer location was changed to 19th Street Oakland station.[25]
The Telegraph Avenue entrance was closed from October 14, 2013, to September 30, 2014, for renovations by the City of Oakland.[26] The work included the installation of akinechromatic sculpture,Shifting Topographies, byDan Corson. The artwork consists oftopographic contour layers of high-density foam coated with a color-shifting paint, which changes hue based on the sun angle and viewing angle.[27][28] The entrance was closed again from February 3 to March 6, 2015, for the installation of colored glass panels covering vent shafts adjacent to the entrance.[29][28]Shifting Topographies was damaged by fire on March 8, 2020.[30]
In 2013, BART began design of a prototype glass canopy for the station entrance on the northeast corner of 20th Street and Broadway. The canopy would protect the escalator from weather damage, improve lighting, and allow the escalator to be fully closed off when the station is not open.[31] The BART board voted to construct the canopy in January 2014; it was completed in March 2015 and includes real-time train arrival information screens at street level.[32][33] The canopy reduced escalator downtime by one-third, prompting the installation of similar canopies at downtown San Francisco stations beginning in 2017.[34]
Construction of the Oakland–San LeandroEast Bay Bus Rapid Transit line (later brandedTempo) began in August 2016.[35] Original plans had called for the line to use surface stops on 20th Street at the Uptown Transit Center.[36] However, with the Berkeley leg on Telegraph Avenue cancelled, the stops were instead built on Broadway. Tempo route 1T service began on August 9, 2020.[37]
Abike station in a storefront at 19th Street opened in February 2015.[38] By 2017, the station filled on most weekday mornings; construction of a larger station on BART-owned land at 21st Street was recommended.[8] By August 2020, BART had obtained $1.17 million of the estimated $8–9 million cost of the 400-space bike station.[39]
A 2014 study produced a conceptual design for modernization of the station.[40] A $32.7 million contract for a renovation project was awarded in July 2019. The three separate paid areas were consolidated, a new platform elevator added to the north end of the station, and the 2001-closed public restrooms rebuilt and reopened.[41][42] The consolidation placed the elevator to the platforms insidepaid area.[42] Several pieces ofpublic art were added as part of the renovation.[43]
Construction began on January 25, 2020.[44] Several entrances were closed from April 13, 2020, to June 12, 2021, due to low ridership during the COVID-19 pandemic.[45] The entrance at the northwest corner of 20th Street and Broadway closed on June 15, 2021, for about six months as part of construction work. The Telegraph Avenue entrance was closed prior to this.[46] The remodeled restrooms opened on February 25, 2022.[47] A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the completed project was held on January 21, 2023.[48]
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