Fruitvale station

{{Short description|Rapid transit station in San Francisco Bay Area}} {{For|the film|Fruitvale Station}} {{Distinguish|Fruitdale station}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox station | name = Fruitvale | style = BART | image = Fruitvale station from parking garage (2), May 2025.jpg | image_caption = Fruitvale station in May 2025 | address = 3401 East 12th Street | borough = [[Oakland, California]] | coordinates = {{Coord|37.7748|-122.2241|region:US_type:railwaystation|display=inline,title}} | line = [[BART A-Line]] | structure = Elevated | platform = 2 side platforms | tracks = 2 | connections = {{bus icon}} [[AC Transit]]: O, [[Tempo (bus rapid transit)|1T]], 14, 19, 30, 31, 51A, 54, 62, [[List of AC Transit routes#Early Bird Express|706]], [[All Nighter (night bus service)#Routes|801]], [[All Nighter (night bus service)#Routes|851]] | parking = 1,268 spaces | bicycle = Racks, [[Bicycle parking station|station]], 20 [[bicycle locker|lockers]] | accessible = Yes | architect = Neil Smith<br />Reynolds & Chamberlain<ref name="Cerny 2007">{{Cite book |last=Cerny |first=Susan Dinkelspiel |title=An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area |publisher=Gibbs Smith |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-58685-432-4 |edition=1st |location=Layton, UT |pages=501–502 |language=en-US |oclc=85623396}}</ref> | code = {{BART code|FTVL}} | opened = September 11, 1972 | passengers = {{BART ridership|Fruitvale}} | pass_year = {{BART ridership|date}} | services = {{Adjacent stations |system1=BART |line1=Blue|left1=Lake Merritt|right1=Coliseum |line2=Green|left2=Lake Merritt|right2=Coliseum |line3=Orange|left3=Lake Merritt|right3=Coliseum|to-left3=Richmond|to-right3=Berryessa |system4=AC Transit |line4=Tempo|left4=31st Avenue|right4=39th Avenue|note-mid4=Station on International Boulevard }} | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 14 }}

'''Fruitvale station''' is a [[Bay Area Rapid Transit]] (BART) [[Metro station|station]] located in the [[Fruitvale, Oakland|Fruitvale District]] of [[Oakland, California]], United States. The elevated station has two [[side platform]]s. The station is served by the [[Orange Line (BART)|Orange]], [[Green Line (BART)|Green]], and [[Blue Line (BART)|Blue]] lines.

== History == By August 1965, the city of Oakland's preferred name for the station was "Fruitvale".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune/144328927/ |title=Differences On Transit Stop Names |newspaper=Oakland Tribune |date=August 24, 1965 |page=50 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> BART approved the name that December.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune/144328970/ |title=Names Approved for 38 Rapid Transit Stations Around Bay |newspaper=Oakland Tribune |date=December 10, 1965 |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Service at the station began on September 11, 1972.<ref name="history">{{BART History}}</ref> Due to a national strike that year by elevator constructors, elevator construction on the early stations was delayed. Elevators at most of the initial stations, including Fruitvale, were completed in the months following the opening.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/oakland-tribune/143718399/ |title=Strike Delays Elevator Service at Some Stations |newspaper=Oakland Tribune |date=September 10, 1972 |page=36 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-independent/144134431/ |title=Four BART Lines Make The System |newspaper=The Independent |date=February 26, 1973 |page=30 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

Planning for mixed-use [[transit oriented development]] (TOD) to replace the surface parking lots beginning in the late 1990s. The first phase included 47 residential units, {{convert|37000|sqft}} of retail, a charter high school, a health clinic, a preschool, a senior center, a public library, and a BART parking garage; it was completed in 2004. BART sold the remaining surface lot to the Oakland Redevelopment Agency in 2010. A 94-unit residential building opened in 2019, followed by a 181-unit building with {{convert|6000|sqft}} of retail space in 2024.<ref name="completedtod">{{cite web |url=https://www.bart.gov/about/business/tod/completed |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240430010340/https://www.bart.gov/about/business/tod/completed |archive-date=April 30, 2024 |title=Completed TOD projects |publisher=San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District}}</ref><ref name="2024tod">{{cite book |url=https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/2024%20BART%20TOD%20Work%20Plan%20Update_Public%20Draft.pdf |date=March 2024 |title=BART Transit-Oriented Development Program Work Plan: 2024 Update |publisher=San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District}}</ref>{{rp|7}} The redevelopment of the station area to a mixed-use "transit village" has served as a model for similar planning elsewhere in the [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-03-29|title=Development without gentrification? Oakland's Fruitvale is the model, report says|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/29/development-without-gentrification-oaklands-fruitvale-is-the-model-report-says/|access-date=2021-05-07|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US}}</ref> {{As of|2024}}, BART indicates "significant market, local support, and/or implementation barriers" that must be overcome to allow additional TOD on the Derby Avenue parking lot and the busway. Such development would not begin until at least the mid-2030s.<ref name="2024tod" />{{rp|17}}[[File:Mock Oscar Grant casket.jpg|thumb|left|Protesters after the 2009 police shooting of Oscar Grant]]On January 1, 2009, a BART police officer [[Killing of Oscar Grant|fatally shot an unarmed man, Oscar Grant III]], at Fruitvale station while responding to reports of a fight on a train.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Deadly-BART-brawl-officer-shoots-rider-22-3178373.php |title=Deadly BART brawl – officer shoots rider, 22 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |first1=Jill |last1=Tucker |first2=Kelly |last2=Zito |first3=Heather |last3=Knight |date=January 2, 2009}}</ref><ref name="video">{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/BART-appeals-for-calm-as-footage-shows-shooting-3255505.php |title=BART appeals for calm as footage shows shooting |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |first=Demian |last=Bulwa |date=January 5, 2009}}</ref> Grant's death sparked several protests in Oakland, and was one of several police killings that contributed to the nationwide [[Black Lives Matter]] movement.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Williams|first1=Yohuru|title=You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Kills You: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the Problem of History|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yohuru-williams/youre-nobody-till-somebod_b_7167028.html|work=[[Huffington Post]]|access-date=May 29, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Trayvon Martin. Marissa Alexander. Oscar Grant. Justice for all! #blacklivesmatter|url=http://blacklivesmatter.tumblr.com/post/56967397099/trayvon-martin-marissa-alexander-oscar-grant|publisher=Black Lives Matter|access-date=May 24, 2015|archive-date=May 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524095752/http://blacklivesmatter.tumblr.com/post/56967397099/trayvon-martin-marissa-alexander-oscar-grant|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''[[Fruitvale Station]]'', a film about the killing, was released in 2013.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/07/ryan-coogler-humanizing-movement-fruitvale-station/313366/ |title=Ryan Coogler on Humanizing a Movement for 'Fruitvale Station' |first=Esther |last=Zuckerman |date=July 12, 2013 |newspaper=The Atlantic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226181405/https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/07/ryan-coogler-humanizing-movement-fruitvale-station/313366/ |archive-date=February 26, 2021}}</ref>

[[Tempo (bus rapid transit)|Tempo bus rapid transit]] service on International Boulevard began on August 9, 2020.<ref name=opens>{{cite press release |url=http://www.actransit.org/2020/08/07/ac-transit-tempo-opens-to-riders-sunday-august-9/ |title=AC Transit Tempo Opens to Riders Sunday, August 9 |date=August 7, 2020 |publisher=Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District}}</ref> The line's Fruitvale station is located about {{convert|600|feet}} northeast of the BART station.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://511.org/media/432/show |title=Schedules & Fares: Fruitvale Station |date=August 14, 2023 |publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Commission}}</ref> Installation of second-generation BART faregates at the station took place from August 13–21, 2024.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2024/news20240801 |title=Installation work to begin week of August 11th for Next Generation Fare Gates at Fruitvale Station |date=August 1, 2024 |publisher=San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925201808/https://www.bart.gov/about/projects/fare-gate |archive-date=September 25, 2024 |url=https://www.bart.gov/about/projects/fare-gate |title=New Fare Gates & Station Hardening |date=September 2024 |publisher=San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District}}</ref> {{clear left}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == {{Commons category}} * [https://www.bart.gov/stations/ftvl BART – Fruitvale]

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