Oakland Wye

37°48′03″N 122°16′22″W / 37.8008°N 122.2729°W / 37.8008; -122.2729

Oakland Wye
Legend
to 19th Street Oakland
12th Street/
Oakland City Center
C2
CX
C1
 Y  CX to Antioch
B1 (upper)
 O  R  C1 to Richmond
B2 (lower)
A2
A1
 O  G  B  to Lake Merritt
 Y  R  G  B 
MX
to West Oakland
M1
M2
5th Street portals

The Oakland Wye is an underground flying wye junction in downtown Oakland, California which serves the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. Trains can switch between (a) the northbound Richmond or Antioch lines (first station: 12th Street Oakland City Center, underground), (b) the westbound San Francisco lines (first station: West Oakland, elevated), and (c) the southbound Berryessa or Dublin/Pleasanton lines (first station: Lake Merritt, underground).[1][2][3][4]: 45–46  The Oakland Wye is the center of the BART system (all mileposts measure distance from the wye),[5] and is a bottleneck for the whole system because every regularly scheduled BART train (except for the Oakland Airport Connector and eBART) passes through it.[1][6]

  1. ^ a b "BART Sustainable Communities Operations Analysis" (PDF). Bay Area Rapid Transit. June 1, 2013. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  2. ^ Mallett, Zakhary (September 7, 2014). "2nd Transbay Tube needed to help keep BART on track". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  3. ^ Eric (July 23, 2008). "New Feature: BART Track Map". Transbay Blog. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  4. ^ "Automatic Train Control in Rapid Rail Transit" (PDF). Office of Technology Assessment. May 1, 1976. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  5. ^ Sanders, Anthony (March 1, 2021). Oakland Fire Department Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Manual (PDF). Oakland Fire Department. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 6, 2023. Retrieved January 6, 2023.
  6. ^ "crawl speed through the Oakland Wye tunnels..." BART Rage. November 19, 2007. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2017.