12th Street Oakland City Center (BART station)

12th Street Oakland City Center
A view of the 12th Street Oakland City Center boarding platform, 2006
Location	1245 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, 14, 18, 20, 26, 31, 40, 51A, 58L*, 72, 72M, 72R*, 88 (local); 800, 801, 802, 805, 840, 851 (All Nighter) * - Route operates weekdays only
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	September 11, 1972
Previous names	12th Street (1972–1982)
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2013)	12,979 exits/day  3.19%
Services
Preceding station   File:Bart compact logo.svg Bay Area Rapid Transit   Following station 19th Street Oakland toward Richmond Richmond–​Daly City/​Millbrae West Oakland toward Millbrae (Daly City on Saturdays) Richmond–​Fremont Lake Merritt toward Fremont 19th Street Oakland toward Pittsburg / Bay Point Pittsburg/​Bay Point–​SFO/​Millbrae West Oakland toward SFO (Millbrae on weeknights & weekends)
Location

12th Street Oakland City Center is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station located at 12th Street and Broadway next to the Oakland City Center in Downtown Oakland. It used to be a northbound transfer station along the BART system, until that role was moved to 19th Street Oakland station on September 13, 2010. It is the fifth busiest BART station overall, and the busiest outside San Francisco.

Like the 19th Street Oakland station, the concourse mezzanine is on the first level down, an island platform and two main tracks for northbound trains (bound for Richmond and Pittsburg/Bay Point) are on the second level down, and a side platform and one main track for southbound trains (bound for San Francisco and Fremont) are on the third level down.

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.

This station is still the transfer point for Fremont passengers traveling to and from SFO/Millbrae via the Richmond–Fremont line and either the Pittsburg/Bay Point–SFO/Millbrae line or the Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae line. 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, Oakland City Center entrance/exit
B1	Northbound	→      Pittsburg/​Bay Point–​SFO/​Millbrae toward Pittsburg / Bay Point (19th Street Oakland) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Northbound	→      Richmond–​Daly City/​Millbrae toward Richmond (19th Street Oakland) → →      Richmond–​Fremont toward Richmond (19th Street Oakland) →
B2	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound	←      Pittsburg/​Bay Point–​SFO/​Millbrae toward SFO weekdays, Millbrae weekends (West Oakland) ←      Richmond–​Daly City/​Millbrae toward Millbrae weekdays, Daly City Saturdays (West Oakland) ←      Richmond–​Fremont toward Fremont (Lake Merritt)

See also

• List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

External links

• BART – 12th St. Oakland City Center Station Overview