19th Street / Oakland (BART Station)
19th Street/Oakland is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station located at 19th Street and Broadway in Downtown Oakland. It is an official northbound transfer station along the BART system, since September 13, 2010.
Like the Oakland City Center/12th Street station, the concourse mezzanine is on the first level down, an island platform and two main tracks for trains bound for Richmond and Pittsburg/Bay Point are on the second level down, and a side platform and one main track for trains bound for San Francisco/Daly City/Millbrae/SFO and Fremont are on the third level down. This station is identifiable by the blue brickwork on the interior. At all times during the day, there are timed cross-platform transfers between the northbound lines, San Francisco - Pittsburg/Bay Point and Fremont - Richmond. There are no timed transfers between southbound lines, since there is only one southbound track.
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.
A portion of Will Smith's film The Pursuit of Happyness was filmed in this station.
Passengers from Millbrae bound for Fremont transfer trains at 12th Street and passengers from the Fremont line transfer the Pittsburg/Bay Point line at 12th Street on nights and weekends.
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