Fruitvale
Fruitvale station in March 2018
General information
Location3401 East 12th Street
Oakland, California
Coordinates37°46′29″N 122°13′27″W / 37.7748°N 122.2241°W / 37.7748; -122.2241
Line(s)BART A-Line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus transport AC Transit: O, 1T, 14, 19, 20, 21, 39, 47, 51A, 54, 62, 706, 801, 851
Construction
Structure typeElevated
Parking1,268 spaces
Bicycle facilitiesRacks, station, 20 lockers
AccessibleYes
ArchitectNeil Smith
Reynolds & Chamberlain[1]
History
OpenedSeptember 11, 1972
Passengers
20233,877 (weekday average)[2]
Services
Preceding station Bay Area Rapid Transit Following station
Lake Merritt
toward Daly City
 Blue Line Coliseum
toward Dublin/​Pleasanton
Green Line Coliseum
toward Berryessa/​North San José
Lake Merritt
toward Richmond
 Orange Line
Preceding station AC Transit Following station
31st Avenue
towards Uptown Transit Center
 Tempo
Station on International Boulevard
 39th Avenue
towards San Leandro BART
Location

Fruitvale station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, California. The elevated station has two side platforms. The station is served by the Orange, Green Line, and Blue lines.

History

Protesters after the 2009 police shooting of Oscar Grant

Service at the station began on September 11, 1972.[3] The redevelopment of the immediate station area from a parking lot to a mixed-use "transit village" has served as a model for transit-oriented development planning elsewhere in the Bay Area.[4]

On January 1, 2009, a BART police officer fatally shot an unarmed man, Oscar Grant III, at Fruitvale station while responding to reports of a fight on a train.[5][6] Grant's death sparked several protests in Oakland, and was one of several police killings that contributed to the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement.[7][8] Fruitvale Station, a film about the killing, was released in 2013.

Tempo bus rapid transit service on International Boulevard began on August 9, 2020. The line's Fruitvale station is located about 600 feet (180 m) northeast of the BART station.

References

  1. ↑ Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area (1st ed.). Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith. pp. 501–502. ISBN 978-1-58685-432-4. OCLC 85623396.
  2. ↑ "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. September 2023.
  3. ↑ "BART Chronology January 1947 – March 2009" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Development without gentrification? Oakland's Fruitvale is the model, report says". The Mercury News. 2018-03-29. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  5. ↑ Tucker, Jill; Zito, Kelly; Knight, Heather (January 2, 2009). "Deadly BART brawl – officer shoots rider, 22". San Francisco Chronicle.
  6. ↑ Bulwa, Demian (January 5, 2009). "BART appeals for calm as footage shows shooting". San Francisco Chronicle.
  7. ↑ Williams, Yohuru. "You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Kills You: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the Problem of History". Huffington Post. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Trayvon Martin. Marissa Alexander. Oscar Grant. Justice for all! #blacklivesmatter". Black Lives Matter. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
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