Oakland – Jack London Square
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Location | 245 Second Street Oakland, CA 94607 |
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Coordinates | 37°47′37″N 122°16′17″W / 37.79361°N 122.27139°WCoordinates: 37°47′37″N 122°16′17″W / 37.79361°N 122.27139°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Port of Oakland | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 1 side platform, 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Connections | AC Transit | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Parking | Paid, Private lot | ||||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | OKJ | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | May 22, 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Passengers (2015) | 319,336 4.9% (Amtrak) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Oakland – Jack London Square is a train station in Jack London Square in downtown Oakland, California. The station is served by the Capitol Corridor, Coast Starlight, and San Joaquins trains. Through Thruway buses, this station serves San Francisco.
Of the 74 California stations served by Amtrak, Oakland was the tenth-busiest in FY2012, boarding or de-training an average of about 1,142 passengers daily.
The station opened on May 22, 1995 as a replacement for 16th Street Station, which had been severely damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. A building next to the old station was used as the rail station until August 5, 1994. Southern Pacific's downtown station on the north side of 1st Street between Franklin Street and Broadway was a passenger stop until 1960.
The station is owned by the Port of Oakland; the tracks along 1st Street are owned by Union Pacific Railroad.
The station is served by the following AC Transit routes: