Lake Merritt Station
City: Oakland | 8th St & Oak St
Points of interest
BART
Ticket machines are located in the underground station concourse. First time riders must purchase a reusable BART ticket from the machine before boarding. All riders must pass through the faregates with a valid BART ticket or Clipper card. Keep the ticket or card for the ride and use it to pass through the faregates again when exiting the station.
BART's Customer Service Center, which sells other types of discount tickets not available from ticket machines, is located in the concourse at this station.
This station features center platforms.
Platform 1: to Fremont, | Platform 2: to Richmond, |
Real time departures: | |
⇓ Next Station: Fruitvale | ⇑ Next Station: West Oakland, Oakland City Center/12th Street |
Bus - AC Transit
When transferring from BART, you can get a free BART to bus transfer before leaving the paid area. The transfer provides discounted one way fares on AC Transit.
Shuttle
ACMC Highland Shuttle Lake Merritt Station - Highland Hospital
Parking
<simpletable sep=comma class="wikitable"> , , Unreserved spaces, Reserved spaces Weekdays, before 10am, $2.50, reserved permit required Weekdays, 10am - 3pm, colspan=2|$2.50 Weekdays, after 3pm, colspan=2 rowspan=2|free Weekends, all day </simpletable> Diagram of parking areas
Reserved spaces require:
- BART monthly reserved parking permit
- BART long term airport parking permit
- BART single day reserved permit - $5.50
To pay the parking fee, remember your space number, enter through the faregates into the paid area and pay at an add fare machine. Parking gets full at the station before 7am.
Bicycle Parking
Bike racks and 32 electronic BikeLink lockers are available at this station.