Fruitvale (BART station)

Fruitvale
Fruitvale BART Station and its "transit village."
Location	3401 East Twelfth Street Oakland, CA 94601
Line(s)
Platforms	2 Side
Connections	AC Transit: Routes 1*, 1R*, 14, 20, 21, 39**, 47**, 51A, 54, 62, 339** (Local); O (Transbay); 801* (All Nighter) * - route serves station from nearby International Blvd. ** - route operates weekdays only
Construction
Parking	1268 spaces- Monthly Reserved Permit, Single Day Permit, Daily ($1/day) Extended Weekend (free), Midday (free after 3pm) and Long Term/Airport Permit
Bicycle facilities	14 Lockers, Bike Station
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	Bay Area Rapid Transit
History
Opened	September 11, 1972
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2013)	8,127 exits/day  5.6%
Services
Preceding station   File:Bart compact logo.svg Bay Area Rapid Transit   Following station Coliseum toward Fremont Richmond–​Fremont Lake Merritt toward Richmond Fremont–​Daly City Lake Merritt toward Daly City Coliseum toward Dublin / Pleasanton Dublin/​Pleasanton–​Daly City

Fruitvale is a metro station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system located in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, California. The station consists of two elevated side platforms with the concourse mezzanine at ground level. 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. Service at this station began on September 11, 1972.

Alameda Bicycle operates a bike station here.

Station layout

P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound/Westbound	←      Richmond–​Fremont toward Richmond (Lake Merritt) ←      Fremont–​Daly City toward Daly City (Lake Merritt) ←      Dublin/​Pleasanton–​Daly City toward Daly City (Lake Merritt)
	Southbound/Eastbound	→      Richmond–​Fremont toward Fremont (Coliseum) → →      Fremont–​Daly City toward Fremont (Coliseum) → →      Dublin/​Pleasanton–​Daly City toward Dublin / Pleasanton (Coliseum) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
M	Mezzanine	One-way faregates, ticket machines, station agent
G	Street Level	Exits/Entrances

BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant

Main article: Shooting of Oscar Grant

On January 1, 2009, BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed Oscar Grant III at the Fruitvale BART station. At around 2:15 a.m. PST, BART Police were responding to reports of a fight on a BART train inbound from San Francisco. Grant was face down on the platform, but Mehserle later said that he couldn't get Grant's arms and feared that he was reaching inside his waistband. Mehserle drew his service weapon (later saying that he had intended to use his Taser weapon) and shot him in the back. Grant died seven hours later at Highland Hospital in Oakland. Video recorded by other riders at the scene were later aired on local television. In 2013 a movie was made about this incident, filmed on location, titled Fruitvale Station.

See also

• List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations
• List of United States bike stations

External links

Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• BART - Fruitvale Station Overview