Motor vehicle limitations City Hall Plaza is a city park and a "pedestrian plaza" which includes what was once the terminus of San Pablo Avenue where it met Broadway at 14th Street. It also includes 15th Street, which once ran through what is now "Kahn's Alley", past the 250
Frank H. Ogawa Plaza building, across Clay Street, through what is now a glass windowed lobby of the California State office building, connecting with Jefferson Street on the building's west side entrance. Motor vehicle traffic has also been excluded from where former city streets, Washington street and 13th street, were once aligned through what is now the
Oakland City Center development. Today, the area features an outdoor retail mall with pedestrian streets laid out to replicate the original street grid.
BART 's
12th Street Station entrance at 1245 Broadway Three subway
Bay Area Rapid Transit stations serve downtown:
12th Street Oakland City Center station, located at 1245 Broadway, and
19th Street Oakland station, located at 1900 Broadway, are both located on the Broadway subway corridor. The
Lake Merritt station is in the eastern area of
Chinatown, at 800 Madison Street. All of BART's main services travel through the
Oakland Wye, an underground
flying wye.
AC Transit Several routes operated by AC Transit pass through or end in Downtown Oakland. These include:
Local Routes •
1T: upgraded bus service featuring partial center dedicated lanes and median stops, from Downtown Oakland (11th + Clay) to
San Leandro BART via
International Boulevard • 6: Downtown Oakland (10th + Washington) to Downtown Berkeley (Oxford + Addison) via most of
Telegraph Avenue • 12:
Jack London Square Amtrak Station to Berkeley–Westbrae (Gilman + Sixth) via parts of Grand Avenue, Martin Luther King Jr. Way (mostly in Berkeley), and Gilman Street (Berkeley) • 14:
West Oakland BART to
Fruitvale BART via 14th Street and parts of East 18th Street, East 21st Street, East 27th Street, School Street, and High Street • 18:
Lake Merritt BART to
Albany–
UC Village via parts of Martin Luther King Jr. Way,
Shattuck Avenue (mostly Berkeley), and Solano Avenue (Berkeley and Albany) • 19: Downtown Oakland (11th + Jefferson) to Fruitvale BART via Buena Vista Avenue (
Alameda) • 20: Downtown Oakland (11th + Jefferson) to the
Dimond District (Fruitvale + MacArthur) via parts of Webster Street (in Alameda),
Alameda South Shore Center, Park Street (Alameda), and Fruitvale Avenue • 29:
Emeryville (Christie + 64th) to
Trestle Glen (Lakeshore + Walavista) via Hollis Street (mostly Emeryville), Peralta Street, parts of 10th, 11th, and 12th Streets, and Lakeshore Avenue • 33:
Piedmont (Highland Avenue + Highland Way) to
Montclair (Moraga + La Salle) via Hampton Road (Piedmont), Oakland Avenue, Harrison Street, and eventually to Park Boulevard • 40: Downtown Oakland (11th + Jefferson) to
Bay Fair BART via parts of Foothill Boulevard, Bancroft Avenue, and East 14th Street (San Leandro) • 51A:
Rockridge BART to
Fruitvale BART via Broadway and parts of Webster Street and Santa Clara Avenue (both Alameda) • 62: West Oakland BART to Fruitvale BART via parts of 7th and 8th Streets, 8th Avenue, and 23rd Avenue, passing in front of
Highland Hospital. This bus line is unique in not providing service near 12th Street BART station, instead continuing straight on 7th and 8th Streets through Chinatown and into
West Oakland. • 72 and 72R:
Jack London Square (2nd + Clay; no Amtrak service) to
Hilltop Mall via parts of
San Pablo Avenue. The 72R serves limited stops along the 72 route at higher frequency from Jack London Square to
Contra Costa College; 72 line trips also short turn at Contra Costa College when Hilltop Mall is closed. A few 72, 72R, and 72M trips begin and end outside of downtown Oakland, usually at the beginning and end of service hours, or when providing supplementary service to schools in
El Cerrito. • 72M: Jack London Square (2nd + Clay) to
Point Richmond (Castro + Tewksbury) via parts of San Pablo Avenue and
Macdonald Avenue (Richmond) • 88: Lake Merritt BART to Downtown Berkeley via parts of 11th and 12th Streets, Market Street, and Sacramento Street (Berkeley) • 96: Dimond District (Montana + Fruitvale) to Alameda Point (West Midway + Monarch) via 14th Avenue. This line serves both Lake Merritt and 12th Street BART stations before entering the
Posey and Webster Street tubes and serving the west of Alameda. The 314 formerly made two trips per week through downtown Oakland from the West Oakland Post Office to the
Walmart Supercenter at Hegenberger Road and Edgewater Drive in
East Oakland, via Santa Clara Avenue (Alameda) and Doolittle Drive. Service has been suspended on this line since March 2020 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Transbay Routes • NL:
Salesforce Transit Center (San Francisco) to
Eastmont Transit Center via parts of West Grand Avenue, 20th Street (Thomas L. Berkley Way), Grand Avenue, and MacArthur Boulevard, serving limited stops • O: Salesforce Transit Center to Fruitvale BART, mainly via Santa Clara Avenue (Alameda). In the San Francisco direction, buses make one stop at 7th and Alice Streets in Chinatown; towards Fruitvale BART, one stop is made near downtown at 5th and Washington Streets, and another in West Oakland at 5th and Market Streets. • W: Salesforce Transit Center to Bridgeside Shopping Center (Alameda) via parts of Webster Street and High Street (both only in Alameda). The W serves the same stops in Oakland as the O.
All-Nighter Routes (all routes meet near 20th Street and Broadway) • 800: the sole late-night Transbay service, from the Salesforce Transit Center to
Richmond BART/Amtrak via parts of 7th Street, Telegraph Avenue, University Avenue (Berkeley), San Pablo Avenue (Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito) and Macdonald Avenue (Richmond), approximating the route of BART service from Richmond • 802: to
Berkeley Amtrak via San Pablo Avenue • 805: to
Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport via parts of Grand Avenue, MacArthur Boulevard, and 73rd Avenue • 840: to
Eastmont Transit Center via parts of Foothill Boulevard • 851:
Downtown Berkeley BART to Fruitvale BART via parts of Bancroft Way and Durant Avenue (Berkeley), College Avenue, Broadway, and Santa Clara Avenue (Alameda) The 1T continues to run at late nights, replacing a segment of line 801 upon the opening of line 1T in August 2020. Passengers may transfer at
San Leandro BART to 801 service via International Boulevard, East 14th Street, and Mission Boulevard, approximating the route of BART service from Fremont. Transit passengers traveling in and out of downtown are serviced by various
AC Transit stops near Broadway and 12th Street, loosely connected to 12th Street BART, as well as the
Uptown Transit Center
bus mall on 20th Street, connected to 19th Street BART. The Uptown Transit Center features multiple bus shelters with seating,
NextBus arrival prediction signs, and local and
Rapid Bus service to Oakland's
streetcar suburbs. These stations host local service,
Rapid service, Transbay Express, and
All Nighter service. (Some, but not all, other bus stops in downtown Oakland also include shelters and arrival signs.) A
Clipper Add Value Machine is located at AC Transit headquarters at 1600 Franklin Street, as well as at all BART stations.
Gondola The
Oakland Athletics made a proposal to have a privately financed
gondola lift travel on Washington Street from 10th Street near City Center to Water Street in Jack London Square. It is proposed as a new mode of transportation to the team's
future ballpark in Jack London Square. There would be approximately 12-14 gondola cabins, each of which would carry about 35 people, with a projection of 6,000 people transported per hour. This project wasestimated to be completed in 2023, but the Athletics decided to go ahead with their move to Las Vegas instead. ==Community Benefit District==