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Oakland–Jack London Square station

January 01, 1970

Oakland–Jack London Square station is a train station in Jack London Square (itself named after the author) of Oakland, California, United States. The station is served by Amtrak's Capitol Corridor, Coast Starlight, and San Joaquins trains. It is officially named Oakland–Jack London Square/C. L. Dellums Station after C. L. Dellums, co-founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; a statue of Dellums stands outside the station.

Oakland–Jack London Square
Jack London Square station with a Capitol Corridor train in 2020
General information
Other namesOakland–Jack London Square/C. L. Dellums Station
Location245 2nd Street
Oakland, California
United States
Coordinates37°47′37″N 122°16′17″W / 37.79361°N 122.27139°W / 37.79361; -122.27139
Owned byPort of Oakland
Line(s)UP Niles Subdivision[1]
Platforms1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks3
Connections
Construction
Parking500 short term, 500 long term[4]
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station codeAmtrak: OKJ
History
OpenedMay 22, 1995
Passengers
FY 2022154,266[5] (Amtrak)
Services
Former services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Terminus California Zephyr
(1995–1997)
 Emeryville
toward Chicago
At Oakland–1st Street station
Preceding station Southern Pacific Railroad Following station
Oakland Pier
Terminus
 Oakland – San Jose
(ended 1960)
 Fruitvale
toward San Jose
Location

Station design edit

 
Interior of the station in 2018

The station is located in the southeastern part of the Jack London Square district of Oakland, California.[2] The two-track Union Pacific Railroad Niles Subdivision runs approximately northwest–southwest along Embarcadero West through Jack London Square, with a siding splitting off from the north main track (Main 2) through the station area. A 1,530-foot (470 m) side platform serves the siding; a 1,000-foot (300 m) island platform is located between the siding and north main track. The south main track (Main 1) is freight-only.[1] The station is fully accessible.[6][7]

The glass-faced station building, owned by the Port of Oakland, is located on the north side of the tracks in the block bounded by Embarcadero West, 2nd Street, Alice Street, and Jackson Street.[7][2] It was designed by Oakland architect Eli Naor.[8] The northwest half of the 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2) building is a 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) waiting room; the remaining portion has two floors of offices and baggage space.[8][9][6] The 40-foot (12 m)-high waiting room has a ceiling of crossed steel vaults from which five 8-foot (2.4 m)-diameter chandeliers hang.[8][9][6] Two wooden benches from 16th Street station originally sat among modern seating in the waiting room.[8][10]: 42  An 8+1⁄2-foot (2.6 m)-diameter clock is on the northwest facade of the building.[9]

A footbridge with elevators at east end crosses the tracks and Embarcadero West adjacent to the station building. The main span is 140 feet (43 m) long, with the deck 35 feet (11 m) above track level. The steel members of the bridge are larger than structurally needed for aesthetic reasons.[6] A parking garage with 500 short-term and 500 long-term spaces is located west of the station building.[10]: 41 [4] A second footbridge over the tracks and road connects the garage to several buildings.[11] A statue of C. L. Dellums, for whom the station is officially named, stands in the plaza between the station building and garage.[12]

Amtrak Thruway buses to/from San Francisco connect at Emeryville, which is closer to the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. However, Oakland is the northern end of 17, which connects to the Pacific Surfliner at Santa Barbara.[3] The station does not have direct connections to other regional transit; it is about 2,400 feet (730 m) east of the Oakland Ferry Terminal served by the San Francisco Bay Ferry and 2,200 feet (670 m) southwest of Lake Merritt station served by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).[2][13] AC Transit local bus route 12 directly serves the station on 2nd Street; other routes stop further away on Broadway and at Lake Merritt station.[2]

History edit

 
Postcard view of the Southern Pacific station at 1st and Broadway

The Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) had a downtown Oakland station on the north side of 1st Street between Franklin Street and Broadway.[14][10]: 7  By midcentury, it was only used for Oakland–San Jose shuttle trains, which were discontinued in 1960.[10]: 7  The SP's main Oakland station was 16th Street station, which Amtrak continued to use after taking over intercity passenger service in 1971.[7]

Planning edit

By the late 1980s, officials planned to replace the aging 16th Street station with a new station in the Jack London Square area, which was undergoing redevelopment.[15][16][17]: 17  In March 1989, the Port of Oakland won a $3.1 million state grant to fund part of the cost of a new station.[18] 16th Street station was severely damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake; an adjacent building was repurposed as a temporary station.[19] In 1990, Jack London Square was among the proposed station sites for the Capitols service.[20]

By late 1991, environmental work for the Jack London Square station was underway; proposed costs had quadrupled to $16 million from the $4 million projected in 1988.[21] Capitols service began in December 1991, with 16th Street as the Oakland station.[22] By August 1992, the Port planned to open a temporary platform at Jack London Square by July 1993, as Caltrans had ordered Amtrak to vacate 16th Street station by then to accommodate replacement of the Cypress Street Viaduct. The new station was then expected to fully open in August 1994.[23]

In 1992, the adjacent city of Emeryville advanced plans for a new station of its own, intended to support redevelopment in the city. Emeryville officials advertised it as an interim replacement for 16th Street station, and that it would only seen limited service after the Jack London Square station opened. However, Port of Oakland saw Emeryville station as a threat to the expected economic benefits of the Jack London Square station.[24][25] Groundbreaking for the Jack London Square station was held on October 28, 1992 – one day after a "lease signing" ceremony in Emeryville.[26]

Construction edit

In December 1992, the Port abandoned plans for the temporary platform in order to speed construction of the permanent station, with the aim of having it open by December 1993.[27] However, this was delayed by unexpectedly high costs for track work at the station.[28] Demolition of a former newspaper warehouse to make way for the new station began in January 1993.[29] Plans up to that point called for a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2), two-story station building with a clock tower.[30] In February 1993, the design was changed to a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m2), one-story station that would cost $13.5 million.[31] Emeryville station ultimately opened on August 13, 1993.[32][33]

In October 1993, bids for the station building came in $1.2 million higher than expected; the Port made cosmetic changes to reduce the cost and rebid the project.[28] The Port awarded a $6.24 million contraction contract for the station building in February 1994 and leased the station to Amtrak for 66 years for $1.[28][34] At that time, the Port also announced that the station would be named after C. L. Dellums, a longtime Oakland resident and the co-founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.[28] Construction began in March 1994.[35]

By July 1994, the project was expected to cost $14.5 million – $9 million for the station and $5.5 million for track work – and be complete by the end of the year.[36] 16th Street station closed in August 1994, at which time Emeryville became Amtrak's only Oakland-area station.[37] The main span of the footbridge was installed on the night of November 5–6, 1994.[10]: 41 [6] The curved beams for the footbridge had to be fabricated in Arkansas, as no closer manufacturer was capable of the work.[6] Heavy winter rains in 1994–1995 delayed the station's opening by an additional three months.[8] The nearly-complete station was formally dedicated in honor of Dellums on May 12, 1995. The final project cost was $16 million.[38]

Service changes and development edit

Oakland–Jack London Square station opened on May 22, 1995.[10]: 33 [39] Initial service consisted of the daily round trips of the California Zephyr and Coast Starlight plus the three daily round trips of the Capitols.[8][40] The San Joaquins were not initially extended to Oakland because of refusals by the SP. Any trains terminating at Oakland had to reverse to the West Oakland rail yard (where a wye allowed trains to be turned) on street running tracks along Embarcadero West. Capitols trains had cab cars allowing bidirectional running (and most Capitols trains ran through Oakland rather than terminating), but San Joaquins and California Zephyr trains did not.[8] (The new California Cars, which included cab cars, were not introduced on the San Joaquins until later in 1995.[9][41]) SP allowed the Zephyr to be extended to Oakland because it would make the reverse move at less-crowded times.[8]

Service to the station increased on April 14, 1996: a fourth Capitols round trip was added, and two of the four daily San Joaquins round trips were extended from Emeryville to Oakland.[42][43][44]: 225  The remaining two San Joaquins round trips were extended to Oakland on November 10, 1996.[45] The California Zephyr was cut back to Emeryville on October 27, 1997 – both to avoid the reverse move, and because the addition of mail and express cars earlier that year had made the train too long for the station's platform.[10]: 43 [46][47] A statue of Dellums was added in the plaza next to the station in December 1999.[12]

The station has been an anchor for additional redevelopment in Jack London Square.[10]: 41  Short-term parking was originally in a surface lot northwest of the station building, while long-term parking was across the tracks.[8] A residential development replaced the long-term lot in 2001.[17]: 23  In June 2004, the city approved a nine-building development in the Jack London Square district. It included a parking garage replacing the short-term packing lot, with a footbridge across the tracks connecting it to a public market.[48][49] Construction on the garage and market began in October 2007.[11][17]: 21  The garage opened on August 14, 2010; the public market was never opened due to the Great Recession and its building saw other uses.[17]: 21 [10]: 41 

Additional Capitols service were added from 1998 to 2006, reaching a peak of 16 weekday round trips; the service was renamed Capitol Corridor in 2001.[44]: 230  A fifth San Joaquins round trip was added on June 20, 2016.[50]: 15  A 2014 vision plan for the Capitol Corridor proposed several possible new alignments for passenger trains to avoid the street running through Jack London Square. These included a tunnel on the existing alignment, a tunnel under 5th Street, and a deep-bore tunnel under downtown Oakland.[51] A 2016 implementation plan proposed a tunnel under 2nd Street with a new underground station at Broadway.[52] A proposed second San Francisco–Oakland rail tunnel, Link21, may be built either as a BART extension or as mainline regional rail. An underground Jack London Square station was proposed on most of the Link21 concepts released in 2023.[53]

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Oakland Jack London Square station is a train station in Jack London Square itself named after the author of Oakland California United States The station is served by Amtrak s Capitol Corridor Coast Starlight and San Joaquins trains It is officially named Oakland Jack London Square C L Dellums Station after C L Dellums co founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters a statue of Dellums stands outside the station Oakland Jack London SquareJack London Square station with a Capitol Corridor train in 2020General informationOther namesOakland Jack London Square C L Dellums StationLocation245 2nd StreetOakland CaliforniaUnited StatesCoordinates37 47 37 N 122 16 17 W 37 79361 N 122 27139 W 37 79361 122 27139Owned byPort of OaklandLine s UP Niles Subdivision 1 Platforms1 side platform 1 island platformTracks3ConnectionsAC Transit 12 2 Amtrak Thruway 17 3 ConstructionParking500 short term 500 long term 4 Bicycle facilitiesYesAccessibleYesOther informationStation codeAmtrak OKJHistoryOpenedMay 22 1995PassengersFY 2022154 266 5 Amtrak ServicesPreceding station Amtrak Following station Oakland Coliseumtoward San Jose Capitol Corridor Emeryvilletoward Auburn San Josetoward Los Angeles Coast Starlight Emeryvilletoward Seattle Terminus San Joaquins Emeryvilletoward BakersfieldFormer servicesPreceding station Amtrak Following station Terminus California Zephyr 1995 1997 Emeryvilletoward Chicago At Oakland 1st Street station Preceding station Southern Pacific Railroad Following station Oakland PierTerminus Oakland San Jose ended 1960 Fruitvaletoward San JoseLocation Contents 1 Station design 2 History 2 1 Planning 2 2 Construction 2 3 Service changes and development 3 References 4 External linksStation design edit nbsp Interior of the station in 2018 The station is located in the southeastern part of the Jack London Square district of Oakland California 2 The two track Union Pacific Railroad Niles Subdivision runs approximately northwest southwest along Embarcadero West through Jack London Square with a siding splitting off from the north main track Main 2 through the station area A 1 530 foot 470 m side platform serves the siding a 1 000 foot 300 m island platform is located between the siding and north main track The south main track Main 1 is freight only 1 The station is fully accessible 6 7 The glass faced station building owned by the Port of Oakland is located on the north side of the tracks in the block bounded by Embarcadero West 2nd Street Alice Street and Jackson Street 7 2 It was designed by Oakland architect Eli Naor 8 The northwest half of the 16 000 square foot 1 500 m2 building is a 5 000 square foot 460 m2 waiting room the remaining portion has two floors of offices and baggage space 8 9 6 The 40 foot 12 m high waiting room has a ceiling of crossed steel vaults from which five 8 foot 2 4 m diameter chandeliers hang 8 9 6 Two wooden benches from 16th Street station originally sat among modern seating in the waiting room 8 10 42 An 8 1 2 foot 2 6 m diameter clock is on the northwest facade of the building 9 A footbridge with elevators at east end crosses the tracks and Embarcadero West adjacent to the station building The main span is 140 feet 43 m long with the deck 35 feet 11 m above track level The steel members of the bridge are larger than structurally needed for aesthetic reasons 6 A parking garage with 500 short term and 500 long term spaces is located west of the station building 10 41 4 A second footbridge over the tracks and road connects the garage to several buildings 11 A statue of C L Dellums for whom the station is officially named stands in the plaza between the station building and garage 12 Amtrak Thruway buses to from San Francisco connect at Emeryville which is closer to the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge However Oakland is the northern end of 17 which connects to the Pacific Surfliner at Santa Barbara 3 The station does not have direct connections to other regional transit it is about 2 400 feet 730 m east of the Oakland Ferry Terminal served by the San Francisco Bay Ferry and 2 200 feet 670 m southwest of Lake Merritt station served by Bay Area Rapid Transit BART 2 13 AC Transit local bus route 12 directly serves the station on 2nd Street other routes stop further away on Broadway and at Lake Merritt station 2 History edit nbsp Postcard view of the Southern Pacific station at 1st and Broadway The Southern Pacific Railroad SP had a downtown Oakland station on the north side of 1st Street between Franklin Street and Broadway 14 10 7 By midcentury it was only used for Oakland San Jose shuttle trains which were discontinued in 1960 10 7 The SP s main Oakland station was 16th Street station which Amtrak continued to use after taking over intercity passenger service in 1971 7 Planning edit By the late 1980s officials planned to replace the aging 16th Street station with a new station in the Jack London Square area which was undergoing redevelopment 15 16 17 17 In March 1989 the Port of Oakland won a 3 1 million state grant to fund part of the cost of a new station 18 16th Street station was severely damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake an adjacent building was repurposed as a temporary station 19 In 1990 Jack London Square was among the proposed station sites for the Capitols service 20 By late 1991 environmental work for the Jack London Square station was underway proposed costs had quadrupled to 16 million from the 4 million projected in 1988 21 Capitols service began in December 1991 with 16th Street as the Oakland station 22 By August 1992 the Port planned to open a temporary platform at Jack London Square by July 1993 as Caltrans had ordered Amtrak to vacate 16th Street station by then to accommodate replacement of the Cypress Street Viaduct The new station was then expected to fully open in August 1994 23 In 1992 the adjacent city of Emeryville advanced plans for a new station of its own intended to support redevelopment in the city Emeryville officials advertised it as an interim replacement for 16th Street station and that it would only seen limited service after the Jack London Square station opened However Port of Oakland saw Emeryville station as a threat to the expected economic benefits of the Jack London Square station 24 25 Groundbreaking for the Jack London Square station was held on October 28 1992 one day after a lease signing ceremony in Emeryville 26 Construction edit In December 1992 the Port abandoned plans for the temporary platform in order to speed construction of the permanent station with the aim of having it open by December 1993 27 However this was delayed by unexpectedly high costs for track work at the station 28 Demolition of a former newspaper warehouse to make way for the new station began in January 1993 29 Plans up to that point called for a 20 000 square foot 1 900 m2 two story station building with a clock tower 30 In February 1993 the design was changed to a 15 000 square foot 1 400 m2 one story station that would cost 13 5 million 31 Emeryville station ultimately opened on August 13 1993 32 33 In October 1993 bids for the station building came in 1 2 million higher than expected the Port made cosmetic changes to reduce the cost and rebid the project 28 The Port awarded a 6 24 million contraction contract for the station building in February 1994 and leased the station to Amtrak for 66 years for 1 28 34 At that time the Port also announced that the station would be named after C L Dellums a longtime Oakland resident and the co founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 28 Construction began in March 1994 35 By July 1994 the project was expected to cost 14 5 million 9 million for the station and 5 5 million for track work and be complete by the end of the year 36 16th Street station closed in August 1994 at which time Emeryville became Amtrak s only Oakland area station 37 The main span of the footbridge was installed on the night of November 5 6 1994 10 41 6 The curved beams for the footbridge had to be fabricated in Arkansas as no closer manufacturer was capable of the work 6 Heavy winter rains in 1994 1995 delayed the station s opening by an additional three months 8 The nearly complete station was formally dedicated in honor of Dellums on May 12 1995 The final project cost was 16 million 38 Service changes and development edit Oakland Jack London Square station opened on May 22 1995 10 33 39 Initial service consisted of the daily round trips of the California Zephyr and Coast Starlight plus the three daily round trips of the Capitols 8 40 The San Joaquins were not initially extended to Oakland because of refusals by the SP Any trains terminating at Oakland had to reverse to the West Oakland rail yard where a wye allowed trains to be turned on street running tracks along Embarcadero West Capitols trains had cab cars allowing bidirectional running and most Capitols trains ran through Oakland rather than terminating but San Joaquins and California Zephyr trains did not 8 The new California Cars which included cab cars were not introduced on the San Joaquins until later in 1995 9 41 SP allowed the Zephyr to be extended to Oakland because it would make the reverse move at less crowded times 8 Service to the station increased on April 14 1996 a fourth Capitols round trip was added and two of the four daily San Joaquins round trips were extended from Emeryville to Oakland 42 43 44 225 The remaining two San Joaquins round trips were extended to Oakland on November 10 1996 45 The California Zephyr was cut back to Emeryville on October 27 1997 both to avoid the reverse move and because the addition of mail and express cars earlier that year had made the train too long for the station s platform 10 43 46 47 A statue of Dellums was added in the plaza next to the station in December 1999 12 The station has been an anchor for additional redevelopment in Jack London Square 10 41 Short term parking was originally in a surface lot northwest of the station building while long term parking was across the tracks 8 A residential development replaced the long term lot in 2001 17 23 In June 2004 the city approved a nine building development in the Jack London Square district It included a parking garage replacing the short term packing lot with a footbridge across the tracks connecting it to a public market 48 49 Construction on the garage and market began in October 2007 11 17 21 The garage opened on August 14 2010 the public market was never opened due to the Great Recession and its building saw other uses 17 21 10 41 Additional Capitols service were added from 1998 to 2006 reaching a peak of 16 weekday round trips the service was renamed Capitol Corridor in 2001 44 230 A fifth San Joaquins round trip was added on June 20 2016 50 15 A 2014 vision plan for the Capitol Corridor proposed several possible new alignments for passenger trains to avoid the street running through Jack London Square These included a tunnel on the existing alignment a tunnel under 5th Street and a deep bore tunnel under downtown Oakland 51 A 2016 implementation plan proposed a tunnel under 2nd Street with a new underground station at Broadway 52 A proposed second San Francisco Oakland rail tunnel Link21 may be built either as a BART extension or as mainline regional rail An underground Jack London Square station was proposed on most of the Link21 concepts released in 2023 53 References edit a b SMA Rail Consulting April 2016 California Passenger Rail Network Schematics PDF California Department of Transportation p 4 a b c d e Transit Routes Lake Merritt Metropolitan Transportation Commission August 22 2023 a b Pacific Surfliner Timetable PDF March 25 2024 a b 2023 Business Plan Update PDF San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority p 66 Amtrak Fact Sheet Fiscal Year 2022 State of California PDF Amtrak June 2023 Retrieved August 30 2023 a b c d e f Goodson Mary Williams Wilson Sam August 1997 Oakland s Amtrak Station PDF Modern Steel Construction American Institute of Steel Construction a b c Oakland CA Jack London Square Station OKJ Great American Stations Amtrak a b c d e f g h i Stone Norman Lisa May 8 1995 Amtrak s future linked to station Oakland Tribune pp A 1 A 9 via Newspapers com a b c d Vasquez Daniel Evangelista Benny March 4 1995 Clock is ticking for troubled Capitols commuter train line Oakland Tribune pp A 1 A 10 via Newspapers com a b c d e f g h i Vurek Matthew Gerald 2016 Images of Modern America California s Capitol Corridor Arcadia Publishing ISBN 9781467124171 a b Brevetti Francine October 23 2007 Oakland s Jack London Market moves closer to reality Oakland Tribune pp 1 4 via Newspapers com a b Dellums statue dedicated The Napa Valley Register December 7 1999 p 2 via Newspapers com The Jack London BART Feasibility Study PDF San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District December 2004 p 5 Hegemann Werner 1915 Report on a City plan for the Municipal Railways of Oakland amp Berkeley Municipal governments of Oakland and Berkeley p 60 via Google Books Gibbs Walt May 8 1988 Travelers flock to Amtrak as highways clog up The San Francisco Examiner pp B1 B4 via Newspapers com Grabowicz Paul February 26 1989 Ferrying new life to city waterfront Oakland Tribune pp 1 4 via Newspapers com a b c d Schwarzer Mitchell Winter 2014 A Tale of Two Waterfronts Oakland s Jack London Square Competes with San Francisco California History 91 4 6 30 doi 10 1525 ch 2014 91 4 6 JSTOR 10 1525 ch 2014 91 4 6 Zimmerman Kathy March 24 1989 Jack London Square Amtrak plan wins grant Oakland Tribune p B1 via Newspapers com Snyder Bill November 8 1989 Many historic buildings repairable but at great cost Oakland Tribune pp C 1 C 2 via Newspapers com Evangelista Benny September 24 1990 Commute train service back on track Oakland Tribune pp A 6 A 8 via Newspapers com Evangelista Benny November 17 1991 On Track Oakland Tribune pp A 1 A 11 via Newspapers com Gibbs Walt Train service to Sacramento begins Oakland Tribune p A 10 via Newspapers com Evangelista Benny August 3 1992 BART S big 20th Oakland Tribune p 3 via Newspapers com Mahoney Brett September 25 1992 Amtrak station OKd for Emeryville stop Oakland Tribune p 10 via Newspapers com Evangelista Benny October 5 1992 Dueling agendas Oakland Tribune p 3 via Newspapers com Evangelista Benny October 28 1992 Emeryville bullish on its Amtrak station plan Oakland Tribune pp A 3 A 4 via Newspapers com Evangelista Benny December 3 1992 Jack London depot on fast track Oakland Tribune p C 11 via Newspapers com a b c d Evangelista Benny February 2 1994 Oakland firm lands contract for train depot Oakland Tribune pp C 1 C 2 via Newspapers com Evangelista Benny January 20 1993 Crew begins clearing way for Amtrak station Oakland Tribune p D 9 via Newspapers com Evangelista Benny October 29 1992 Oakland sees new train station in 93 Oakland Tribune p A 3 A 6 via Newspapers com Evangelista Benny February 4 1993 Plans are grand for Oakland railway station Oakland Tribune p D 8 via Newspapers com Amtrak opens new station in Emeryville San Francisco Examiner August 10 1993 p A6 via Newspapers com Maybury Joel August 14 1993 Emeryville can now say all aboard Oakland Tribune p 7 via Newspapers com Port Ordinance No 3194 1994 Ordinances PDF Port of Oakland 1994 pp 177 179 Maybury Joel March 24 1994 Funds OK d for Jack London Amtrak Oakland Tribune pp A 11 A 12 via Newspapers com Delson Sam July 7 1994 Jack London station grant on track Oakland Tribune p 11 via Newspapers com Maybury Joel November 15 1994 Amtrak expected to arrive in London Square in April Oakland Tribune p 11 via Newspapers com Stone Norman Lisa May 13 1993 Railroad porters recall Dellums at dedication Oakland Tribune p A 11 via Newspapers com Oakland Amtrak The San Francisco Examiner May 22 1995 p 5 via Newspapers com National Timetable Revised Edition Amtrak June 11 1995 pp 34 38 39 Cabanatuan Michael June 23 1995 Sleek train debuts Modesto Bee pp B 1 B 2 via Newspapers com Bell Ted April 11 1996 Fourth daily train to Oakland starting The Sacramento Bee p 16 via Newspapers com Abramson Ronna May 22 1996 Oakland Amtrak station off to slow roll Oakland Tribune p 9 via Newspapers com a b Warner David C Goldberg Bruce 2021 Fifty Years of Amtrak Trains A Comprehensive Survey of Amtrak Routes 1971 2021 Bucklin Missouri White River Productions ISBN 978 1 932804 70 6 Amtrak has a new Oakland destination The Hanford Sentinel November 5 1996 p 5 via Newspapers com Palmer Jonna November 19 1997 Zephyr train ends service Oakland Tribune pp E 1 E 2 via Newspapers com Sanders Craig 2006 Amtrak in the Heartland Bloomington Indiana Indiana University Press p 153 ISBN 978 0 253 34705 3 Environmental Science Associates February 11 2004 Jack London Square Redevelopment Project Final Environmental Impact Report PDF City of Oakland Community and Economic Development Agency pp II 3 VII J 2 Rosynsky Paul T June 17 2004 Square set for 300M makeover Oakland Tribune pp 1 11 via Newspapers com 2018 Business Plan Update PDF San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority 2018 Archived from the original PDF on November 11 2018 Capitol Corridor 2014 Vision Plan Update Final Report PDF Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority November 19 2014 pp 25 27 Capitol Corridor Vision Implementation Plan PDF Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority November 2016 pp 22 23 Concepts Link21 Program 2023 Retrieved April 4 2024 External links edit nbsp Media related to Oakland Jack London Square station at Wikimedia Commons Oakland CA Jack London Square Amtrak Oakland CA Jack London Square Station history at Great American Stations Amtrak Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Oakland Jack London Square station amp oldid 1222917049, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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