Fruitvale_(BART_station)

Fruitvale station

Fruitvale station

Rapid transit station in San Francisco Bay Area

For the film, see Fruitvale Station.

Fruitvale station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, California. The elevated station has two side platforms. The station is served by the Orange, Green, and Blue lines.

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History

Protesters after the 2009 police shooting of Oscar Grant

By August 1965, the city of Oakland's preferred name for the station was "Fruitvale".[3] BART approved the name that December.[4]

Service at the station began on September 11, 1972.[5] 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.[6][7] 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.[8]

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.[9][10] Grant's death sparked several protests in Oakland, and was one of several police killings that contributed to the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement.[11][12] Fruitvale Station, a film about the killing, was released in 2013.

Tempo bus rapid transit service on International Boulevard began on August 9, 2020. The line's Fruitvale station is located about 600 feet (180 m) northeast of the BART station.

References

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    Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area (1st ed.). Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith. pp. 501–502. ISBN 978-1-58685-432-4. OCLC 85623396.
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    "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2024.
  3. [3]
    "Differences On Transit Stop Names". Oakland Tribune. August 24, 1965. p. 50 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. [4]
    "Names Approved for 38 Rapid Transit Stations Around Bay". Oakland Tribune. December 10, 1965. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "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.
  6. [6]
    "Strike Delays Elevator Service at Some Stations". Oakland Tribune. September 10, 1972. p. 36 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Four BART Lines Make The System". The Independent. February 26, 1973. p. 30 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Development without gentrification? Oakland's Fruitvale is the model, report says". The Mercury News. 2018-03-29. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  9. [9]
    Tucker, Jill; Zito, Kelly; Knight, Heather (January 2, 2009). "Deadly BART brawl – officer shoots rider, 22". San Francisco Chronicle.
  10. [10]
    Bulwa, Demian (January 5, 2009). "BART appeals for calm as footage shows shooting". San Francisco Chronicle.
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    Williams, Yohuru. "You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Kills You: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the Problem of History". Huffington Post. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
  12. [12]
    "Trayvon Martin. Marissa Alexander. Oscar Grant. Justice for all! #blacklivesmatter". Black Lives Matter. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
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