MacArthur station (BART)

Rapid transit station in San Francisco Bay Area

MacArthur

MacArthur station viewed from the I-580/SR 24 interchange in 2019

General information
Location| 555 40th Street (in SR 24 median)
Oakland, California
Coordinates| 37°49′45″N 122°16′02″W﻿ / ﻿37.8291°N 122.2671°W﻿ / 37.8291; -122.2671
Owned by| San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Line(s)| BART K-Line
Platforms| 2 island platforms
Tracks| 4
Connections|

* AC Transit
* Alta Bates Summit Shuttles
* Caltrans Bay Bridge Bicycle Shuttle
* Early Bird Express
* Emery Go-Round
* Kaiser Shuttles

Construction
Structure type| Elevated
Parking| 602 spaces
Bicycle facilities| Racks, 40 lockers, bike station
Accessible| Yes
Architect| Maher & Martens[1]
Other information
Station code| BART: MCAR
History
Opened| September 11, 1972 (1972-09-11)
Passengers
2025| 3,833 (weekday average)[2]
Services
| Preceding station  |  Bay Area Rapid Transit | Following station

|
|

19th Street Oakland

toward Berryessa

|  | Orange Line |  | Ashby

toward Richmond

19th Street Oakland

toward Millbrae

|  | Red Line |
19th Street Oakland

toward SFO or Millbrae

|  | Yellow Line |  | Rockridge

toward Antioch via Pittsburg/​Bay Point

Location

MacArthur station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in the Temescal District of Oakland, California. 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 located in the median of SR 24 just north of its interchange with I-580. The station is perpendicular to 40th Street and MacArthur Boulevard. The surrounding neighborhood is mostly low-density residential, making MacArthur station primarily a commuting hub.[3]

## History

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One of the tile mosaics at the station

By August 1965, the city of Oakland wanted to call the station "MacArthur", while BART preferred "Oakland North".[4] A BART committee selected "MacArthur" in October 1965, rejecting a proposal for "Temescal".[5] The BART Board approved the name in December 1965.[6]

MacArthur station opened on September 11, 1972, as the northern terminus of the inaugural BART line (now the Orange Line) which ran to Fremont.[7] 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 MacArthur, were completed in the months following the opening.[8][9] Service was extended north to Richmond on January 29, 1973. A second line between MacArthur and Concord (now the Yellow Line) opened on May 21, 1973; it was extended to San Francisco on September 16, 1974, when the Transbay Tube opened. Richmond–Daly City service via MacArthur (now the Red Line) began on April 19, 1976.[7]

The station included several pieces of public art: an abstract mural by Mark Adams 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.[10][11] On July 22, 2018, a man stabbed three women at the station, killing one of them.[12] Sunday-only service to the station on the Dublin/Pleasanton line was operated from February 11, 2019 to February 10, 2020.[13][14]

BART and the City of Oakland began planning in 1993 for transit-oriented development (TOD) to replace the surface parking lot east of the station.[15] Construction of a 450-space BART parking garage at the southern end of the site began in mid-2011; it opened on September 15, 2014.[16][17][18] A 90-unit residential building was constructed in 2013–2016, followed by a 385-unit residential complex with 33,000 square feet (3,100 m2) of retail space constructed in 2015–2020.[19][20][21] The latter project included a reconstruction of the plaza outside the station: planters were removed, a new concrete surface added, and a 200-space bike station was built. The work took place from June 2018 to August 2019.[22] The final phase of TOD – a 24-story, 403-unit residential tower with 13,000 square feet (1,200 m2) of retail space – was completed in early 2021.[19][20]: 7 As of 2024[update], BART does not anticipate development on a smaller agency-owned parcel on the west side of SR 24 until the 2030s.[20]: 17

## Station layout

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An Antioch-bound train at the station

MacArthur station has two island platforms and four tracks, allowing cross-platform interchanges between lines. Outer tracks 1 and 2 serve the Orange Line and Red Line; Track 1 goes northbound towards Richmond, and Track 2 goes southbound towards Berryessa/​North San José and San Francisco. Inner tracks 3 and 4 serve the Yellow Line; Track 3 goes northbound toward Antioch, and Track 4 goes southbound toward San Francisco. Connections between the lines are timed for southbound passengers, while 19th Street Oakland 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.[23] Southbound trains converge to single track towards downtown Oakland; San Francisco-bound trains depart before Berryessa-bound trains.

### Bus connections

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MacArthur station is served by several AC Transit 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, Emery-Go-Round buses serving Emeryville, the Caltrans Bay Bridge Bike Shuttle, three Kaiser Shuttle routes, and four Alta Bates shuttle routes.[24][25]

## References

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1. ^ 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.
2. ^ "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2025.
3. ^ MacArthur BART access feasibility study Archived 2010-11-20 at the Wayback Machine BART Retrieved 24 August 2010
4. ^ "Differences On Transit Stop Names". Oakland Tribune. August 24, 1965. p. 50 - via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ "A Name For BART Station?". Oakland Tribune. October 20, 1965. p. 16 - via Newspapers.com.
6. ^ "Names Approved for 38 Rapid Transit Stations Around Bay". Oakland Tribune. December 10, 1965. p. 10 - via Newspapers.com.
7. ^ a b "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.
8. ^ "Strike Delays Elevator Service at Some Stations". Oakland Tribune. September 10, 1972. p. 36 - via Newspapers.com.
9. ^ "Four BART Lines Make The System". The Independent. February 26, 1973. p. 30 - via Newspapers.com.
10. ^ Weinstein, Dave. "How BART got ART". CA-Modern. Eichler Network. p. 6.
11. ^ Jones, Carolyn (October 25, 2002). "Putting the art in BART / Mosaics, murals and steel cows brighten up Oakland, Berkeley stations". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
12. ^ "Nia Wilson Honored At Emotional Memorial Service". SFGate. August 3, 2018.
13. ^ "February 11 schedule change impacts weekdays and Sundays" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. January 15, 2019.
14. ^ "New Sunday service plan to begin in February" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. November 25, 2019.
15. ^ "MacArthur Transit Village Information Sheet" (PDF). City of Oakland. February 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 4, 2009.
16. ^ Mayer, Sean (May 23, 2011). "MacArthur Transit Village project breaks ground after 17 years". Oakland Tribune. Archived from the original on December 6, 2013.
17. ^ "New parking garage opens at MacArthur Station 9/15" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. September 9, 2014.
18. ^ "Phase 1 parking lot changes at MacArthur BART Station" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. October 18, 2011.
19. ^ a b "Completed TOD projects". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. Archived from the original on April 30, 2024.
20. ^ a b c BART Transit-Oriented Development Program Work Plan: 2024 Update (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2024.
21. ^

* King, John (July 18, 2019). "Life next door to MacArthur BART: 'It's like a small town'". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on July 18, 2019.
* "Parking lot and plaza changes upcoming at MacArthur Station" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. September 11, 2013.
* "Parking lot closure at MacArthur Station 7/28" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. July 17, 2014.

22. ^ "MacArthur Plaza Improvements". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. August 2019. Archived from the original on November 11, 2019.
23. ^ Cabanatuan, Michael (April 10, 2010). "BART can't keep pace with rising 'crush loads'". SFGate.
24. ^ "Schedules & Fares: MacArthur Station" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Commission. July 31, 2020.
25. ^ "Transit Stops: MacArthur Station" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Commission. July 31, 2020.

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