MacArthur station is a

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station in the Temescal District of

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. It is the largest station in the BART system, being the only one with four platform tracks. Service through MacArthur is timed for cross-platform transfers between the southbound lines that pass through the station. MacArthur station is in North Oakland, in the median of Route 24 just north of its interchange with I-580 and perpendicular to 40th Street and MacArthur Boulevard. The surrounding neighborhood is mostly low-density residential, making MacArthur station primarily a commuting hub.MacArthur BART access feasibility study
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History

MacArthur station opened on September 11, 1972, as the northern terminus of the inaugural BART line, which ran to Fremont. Upon the opening of the

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in 1974, the station began to serve Transbay trains to

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. The station included several pieces of public art: an abstract mural by

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over a staircase (which Adams later replaced with two murals after the stairs were removed for an elevator in 2000), and tile mosaics by Adams and Alfonso Pardiñas in the fare lobby. On July 22, 2018, a man fatally stabbed Nia Wilson at the station. Sunday-only service to the station on the Dublin/Pleasanton line was operated from February 11, 2019 to February 10, 2020.

MacArthur Transit Village

Because of MacArthur's importance as an interchange and its location in the center of the East Bay, BART has conducted a number of feasibility studies about the prospects of creating transit-oriented development around the station. These studies have resulted in a plan for the "MacArthur Transit Village," a

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on the eastern side of Route 24 bounded by 40th Street, Telegraph Avenue, and West MacArthur Boulevard.MacArthur Transit Village information sheet
''City of Oakland'' Retrieved 24 August 2010 The current plan calls for 624 residential units as well as of retail space. MacArthur Commons occupies Parcel A and Parcel C of the Village, providing 385 apartment units. The groundbreaking for the project was held in May 2011 with the start of construction for a new 450-space parking garage for BART. BART opened a parking garage as part of the project in September 2014. As of 2018, the village is under construction and will include around 850 units and a tower tall.

Station layout

Antioch-bound train at MacArthur station, June 2018

MacArthur station has two island platforms and four tracks, allowing

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s between lines. Outer tracks 1 and 2 serve the and the ; Track 1 goes northbound towards , and Track 2 goes southbound towards and San Francisco. Inner tracks 3 and 4 serve the ; Track 3 goes northbound toward , and Track 4 goes southbound toward San Francisco. Connections between the lines are timed for southbound passengers, while is the transfer point for northbound service. MacArthur tends to be crowded in the morning due to high transfer volume between two lines where only a few people get off while many are trying to board. Southbound trains converge to single track towards downtown Oakland; San Francisco-bound trains depart before Berryessa-bound trains.

Bus connections

MacArthur station is served by several

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routes: local route 57 on 40th Street, local route 18 on Martin Luther King Jr. Way to the west, and local route 6 and All-nighter route 800 on Telegraph Avenue to the east. Several shuttle routes stop on Walter Miles Way on the east side of the station entrance. These include Early Bird Express route 705,

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buses serving

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, the Caltrans Bay Bridge Bike Shuttle, three Kaiser Shuttle routes, and four

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shuttle routes.

References

External links

BART – MacArthur
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