BART - Rockridge Station

Of all the Bart stations (aside from the Bart stations in the boonies, like Dublin), Rockridge Bart is the cleanest and safest. I love any Bart station that you can get off the train, and walk up a street full of cute shops, cafe's, and restaurants.

Although I have started going to MacArthur Bart, this is only due to the fact that two trains (Richmond and P-burg/Bay Point) run through Macarthur. Rockridge is the better station. The parking lot is a bit whack, as it looks like someone brought a spray paint can one late night and created some extra spaces that make it a really tight parking lot to drive through when it's full, but f-it. It's safe, great area, and clean. And for public transportation, that's worth 5 stars.

I am not a commuter so I'm on here randomly at off hours. The station is clean and the restrooms are convenient for the small bladder people like me. There is a womens and a men's separate doors.

There are now the full panel gates on one side and the old stalls on the other that are easy to jump over.

You can tap your phone on the top or the side of the stall depending on the design.

There is an elevator you can take if you have luggage or mobility issues.

The platform is above the freeway so it is loud and windy. You can go to the end of the platform if you want a view of San Francisco. You can also get your steps in walking the length of the platform while you wait for your train.

Two big parking lots which are paid during commute times but otherwise free to park after 3pm weekdays. Free to park scooters and motorcycles. Watch out for the spots that get a lot of pigeon poop. Bike poles and lockers available.

There was screens on the platform with digital times for train arrival. The newer Bart trains have screens with your route and little recordings of how to use the Bart properly.

When you guys sit down the escalators, you'll see the big iconic Rockridge sign or you can cross over the bridge and descend to the other side which will lead you towards Berkeley. Although be careful because the signage is mixed up.

I guess there's free parking here. Or was it my lucky day? I was only one of a dozen vehicles parked in the east lot. I totally forgot to purchase parking inside. Had a safe and uneventful trip into The City.

Date: 6/11/2018 Time: 1:35 PM 68° Partly sunny

I seldom stop at the Rockridge BART Station. This station is one of the cleaner ones in comparison to other stations in Oakland.

The good thing about this station is the numerous shops, restaurants, pubs, markets, even a liquor store within walking distance. This station is also the last stop for the 51A coming from the Fruitvale BART station through Alameda, Oakland Chinatown, Downtown and Uptown Oakland, Auto Row, Oakland Tech, College Avenue. It's quite nice to have two options of getting to this station by public transportation, AC Transit or BART.

The purpose of my visit to this station was to visit Stomper, the Oakland A's mascot. There are 50 Stompers throughout the City of Oakland and I am almost at the tail end of seeing Stomper in different settings and different areas of Oakland. There is also a Stomper in front of McNally's Irish Pub, which is about seven blocks from the Rockridge BART Station.

Well, after visiting Stomper at McNally's, I could not make it back to the Rockridge BART station. My "puppies (feet) were crying" for some form of relief. However, I did manage to make it to a bus stop to catch the 51A home to Alameda.

Although I haven't taken BART in a long time now due to current events, I've got to say Rockridge is the best BART station I've been to.

For one, it's relatively clean and safe for an urban BART station. While it is still Oakland and does occasionally have muggings nearby, the station doesn't have the outright sketchy feel of all the major SF, Oakland and Berkeley stations.

But the best part is the feel of the neighborhood when you get off the train. Head underground on a cool, foggy day in SF to get on a packed BART train, and 20 minutes later (if you time it right), when you get off the train at Rockridge you find yourself in a warm and sunny, tree-lined, busy yet relaxed neighborhood, ready to enjoy the summer evening.

The Rockridge BART station, mostly an outdoor station, is clean, safe, and functional. It's a relatively small station that handles only one rail line: Pittsburg/Bay Point to SF Airport/Millbrae.

There are plenty of parking spaces and the daily fee to park is only $1.00. The pick-up/drop-off spaces are located directly at the station's entrance, near the escalators, so it's very convenient if you have a ride. The artistic Rockridge sign you see as you come down the escalators and out onto the street is neat.

Restrooms are limited (only one per sex), but they're clean enough.

The Rockridge neighborhood is nice and the station is located on College Ave, where there are many restaurants and retailers such as bookstores, boutiques, and furniture stores. Restaurants I recommend nearby the station include Crepevine, Cactus Taqueria, and Zachary's Chicago Pizza. Yum!

No different than any other BART stations, although I find this one isn't as busy. So, that's nice. It's also located in a safer-than-most neighborhood of Oakland. I do wish there was a closer station to Montclair/Piedmont area.

Look for the "Attended Vehicles Only" area for if you're picking up a pal at the station!

Great Location off of College in Rockridge. There are dozens of restaurants and shops just a few steps from the station. This is also a great station to dodge the commuters coming from SF headed in the Pittsburg Bay Point Direction. a lot of people exit this station on weekdays so boarding my bike here is way more comfortable then at West Oakland. Rockridge is also among the few stations that have a clean well stocked bathroom.

I take Bart to and from the city on the weekends, and as per my last posting there's always some unacceptable behavior on Bart because no Bart staff walks the trains. Last week there were prescription bottles with pills laying about. However, on the weekends, there's always sleepers taking up two and sometimes four seats. Walk The Trains!!!!

A Bart station! It's my local so my favorite. By Trader Joe's, and walking distance to all parts of College Ave.

OK bathrooms. Just be careful where you park, the permit parking signs are far from clear. Passable bathrooms.

Walk to the West of the platform for a great view of San Francisco.

The woman station agent here is useless and unhelpful. I tried to pay for my wife's parking spot because she forgot in the morning. The station agent wouldn't let me through to just pay it for her or even offer up a solution. Surprise, surprise, she was doing nothing to begin with. Parking should be able to be paid outside the station or online. Not to mention that it is so inefficient to have a different bucket of monies (EZ rider) to pay for parking (if you are doing that hang tag automatic) or that none of the parking stalls take anything but cash. The e-cash, aka the balance on your clipper card, should be available to pay for ANYTHING. The simple concept that we cannot do that baffles me for a multi billion dollar organization.

I was not being unreasonable - I was literally wanting to give Bart money, so why couldn't she help me do that? Oh, that's right, because I need to pay more money to give them money. Not only that, I had to repeat myself multiple times through that stall because they need to flip on the mic. She said I would have to pay for a ticket to get INTO the station (5.75$ "excursion" fare to go in and out of a turn stall), pay the parking fee, and then come back out. Suffice it to say, I just had some nice stranger do it for me and I handed them the money, let them keep the change since it was still cheaper. I really just wished the agent would have tried problem solving rather than have me jump through hoops. Have some humanity!