19th Street Oakland station


19th Street Oakland is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station located under Broadway between 17th Street and 20th Street in the Uptown District of Oakland, California. It is a timed transfer point between northbound trains to Richmond and to Antioch.
It is the busiest BART station in both Oakland and the East Bay, and the 5th busiest BART station overall, with a daily ridership of approximately in.

Station layout

The concourse mezzanine is on the first level underground. An island platform and two main tracks for northbound trains bound for and are on the second level, with a side platform with one track for southbound trains bound for or San Francisco on the third level. There are timed cross-platform transfers between northbound Antioch–bound and Richmond-bound trains.
The station has six public entrances: two at 20th Street, two at 19th Street, and two at 17th Street. There is also a direct passageway from the station to a Wachovia Bank building. The Telegraph Avenue entrance was closed from October 14, 2013 to September 30, 2014 for renovations by the City of Oakland.
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. 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. The canopy reduced escalator downtime by one-third, prompting the installation of similar canopies at downtown San Francisco stations beginning in 2017.
A $32.7 million contract for a renovation project was awarded in July 2019. The three separate paid areas will be consolidated, a new elevator added, and public restrooms reopened. Construction began on January 25, 2020.

Uptown Transit Center

The surface streets around 19th Street Oakland station are a major transfer point for AC Transit buses. The Uptown Transit Center, located on 20th Street west of Broadway, consists of six large shelters built in September 2006 to improve the ease of transfers. A number of routes stop on 20th Street shelters and/or on Broadway at the station:
The Uptown Transit Center is also a transfer point between three Early Bird Express bus routes: 705, 708, and 712.
The Uptown Transit Center will be the northern terminus of the under-construction East Bay Bus Rapid Transit line.
Oakland's Greyhound intercity bus station is located four blocks west at San Pablo Avenue and 20th Street.