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.
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Location | 3401 East 12th Street, Oakland, California | ||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 37.7748°N 122.2241°W | ||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Bay Area Rapid Transit | ||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | BART A-Line | ||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||
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Parking | 1268 spaces | ||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | racks, station, 20 lockers | ||||||||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | September 11, 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Passengers (2020) | 7,737 (weekday average)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
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History
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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.
References
- "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2020.
- "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.
- Tucker, Jill; Zito, Kelly; Knight, Heather (January 2, 2009). "Deadly BART brawl - officer shoots rider, 22". San Francisco Chronicle.
- Bulwa, Demian (January 5, 2009). "BART appeals for calm as footage shows shooting". San Francisco Chronicle.
- Williams, Yohuru. "You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Kills You: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the Problem of History". Huffington Post. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
- "Trayvon Martin. Marissa Alexander. Oscar Grant. Justice for all! #blacklivesmatter". Black Lives Matter. Retrieved May 24, 2015.