Fruitvale station

Fruitvale station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, California, United States. The elevated station has two side platforms.

Fruitvale
Fruitvale station in March 2018
Location	3401 East 12th Street, Oakland, California
Coordinates	37.7748°N 122.2241°W
Line(s)	BART A-Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Connections	AC Transit: O, 1T, 14, 19, 20, 21, 39, 47, 51A, 54, 62, 706, 801, 851
Construction
Parking	1,268 spaces
Bicycle facilities	racks, station, 20 lockers
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	September 11, 1972
Passengers
2020	7,737 (weekday average)[1]
Services
Preceding station Bay Area Rapid Transit Following station Lake Merritt toward Richmond Berryessa/​North San José–​Richmond Coliseum toward Berryessa/​North San José Lake Merritt toward Daly City Berryessa/​North San José–​Daly City Dublin/​Pleasanton–​Daly City Coliseum toward Dublin/​Pleasanton Preceding station AC Transit Following station 31st Avenue towards Uptown Transit Center Tempo (1T) Station on International Boulevard 39th Avenue towards San Leandro BART
Location

History

Protesters after the 2009 police shooting of Oscar Grant

Service at the station began on September 11, 1972.[2] 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.

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.[3][4] Grant's death sparked several protests in Oakland, and was one of several police killings that contributed to the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement.[5][6] 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. "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2020.
2. "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.
3. Tucker, Jill; Zito, Kelly; Knight, Heather (January 2, 2009). "Deadly BART brawl - officer shoots rider, 22". San Francisco Chronicle.
4. Bulwa, Demian (January 5, 2009). "BART appeals for calm as footage shows shooting". San Francisco Chronicle.
5. Williams, Yohuru. "You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Kills You: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the Problem of History". Huffington Post. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
6. "Trayvon Martin. Marissa Alexander. Oscar Grant. Justice for all! #blacklivesmatter". Black Lives Matter. Retrieved May 24, 2015.

External links

• BART - Fruitvale