I live in Oakland and this Bart station is my go to versus others in the area. Great restaurants and stores to go to that are nearby as well as free parking here on Saturdays and Sundays which is always a plus in the Bay Area. read more

Despite being in Oakland, this station feels pretty safe, and with the new high ticket doors, I feel even more secure from fare evaders. The station has a large parking lot, and like other BART stations, parking is free on weekends. Some of the spots are shaded by the BART tracks, which is a nice bonus. There are escalators going both up and down, making it easy to navigate. They also have restrooms, which is not always common at BART stations. The waiting area has benches, but since it's outdoors, it can get pretty cold at times. It's also a bit noisy because of the nearby highway, but it's not a major issue. Overall, a solid and convenient station for those commuting or traveling in the area. read more

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. read more

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Some people were jumping the fare gates but it was clean and on the prettier end of Bart stations.

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. read more

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. read more

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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! read more

BART - Rockridge Station - Sign at Rockridge Station. - Metro Stations Near Me - Oakland, California

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. read more

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. read more

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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. read more

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What can I say about just another BART station? Well, I like that you can get to it from whatever side of it you are nearest too. There are stairs all the way around. I also like that there are several seats. Most importantly though, I like that I happened to be getting off there the other night just as the last light of day was leaving the city, and I was treated with a view of a beautiful orange, pink, and almost dark sky over the lights of the Oakland skyline. I went all the way to the edge to take pictures and got some of the colors stretched across above the tracks. It really was beautiful. The Verdict: Must post picks at some point! read more

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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! read more

One of my friends coming in from the city once said of Rockridge Station, "Did I just see people playing croquette nearby!!" Well, tennis, I think,is more like it...But you get the idea. As you come in from the city and pass through Rockridge before the tunnel, you know you have "arrived." Gone are the industrial flats of West Oakland, the creepy underground tunnels of Downtown Oakland and just plain crazy MacArthur. You are now within close orbit of the 'burbs. This station is clean (relatively so) and extra conveniently located to all the shops and restaurants on nearby college. It took me like 3 years to finally figure out the signage towards Oakland and Berkeley...maybe I'm just numb in the head but aren't you in Oakland EITHER direction? Minus 1 star for the open platform which can be cold and windy during the winter months. Otherwise Rockridge BART, you're 'aight. read more

This is a pretty good BART station - the station itself is mostly on an open platform with some canopy - so it can get chilly in windy & rainy weather. It seems like there is a bottleneck at the turnstiles - esp when there are lots of bicycles. However, they do have a nice covered walkway over College that allows riders to go right to the parking lot. Be careful with parking bicycles or scooters here - just like any other BART station, inadequately locked = target for theft (neighbors lost a scooter from this station). Casual Carpool is only a few blocks away (Hudson & Claremont) - making this a convenient backup if rides are few and far between on a workaday morning. Rockridge BART is close to bus lines, there are usually taxis out front and piles of good restaurants and places to pick up flowers or groceries on the walk home. I like getting off here in warm weather because it's always a nice walk through the neighborhood - lots of friendly cats waiting for their humans to return after work to feed them, but happy for a little attention from passersby. read more

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!!!! read more

BART - Rockridge Station - Walk The Trains!!!!! - Metro Stations Near Me - Oakland, California

I hate the station agent who is here in the evenings. He's a small man who thinks he's a big shot because he "controls' the turnstiles. Tonight I went through the turnstiles at Embarcadero BART with my Translink card for the first time. I slid the card, the gate slide open, and the round circle on the turnstile turned green and said GO and it showed the balance on my card - $47. I was very pleased with myself and my Translink card, which I've used on AC Transit for over a year, on MUNI for several weeks, and now on BART - yay! I get to Rockridge, and the card doesn't work. I try another turnstile and the agent pops out of his cave and says "can't you see that the light is red? That means it's turned off". Oh, right-o. I tell him my card didn't work and he asked for it and asked where I came in. I told him Embarcadero and he starts fiddling with the card with some little handheld machine and tells me last time it was used was on AC Transit. I started to explain how it worked at Embarcadero and he held up his hand to stop me, and told me that it couldn't have worked and I must've come through on another passenger's BART card. I tried to explain again, and he stopped me again with his little hand held high. "Miss, that's $3.50 to exit". I reluctantly pay the money and split, fuming since my mood was ruined by the petty agent. I came home and checked my account, and sure enough, my Translink card showed it was last used at Embarcadero station this evening at 5:34PM. I think I'm gonna have to take him and his little machine DOWN. read more

Why 5 stars when nobody else has been so favorable? One reason only -- Entertainment value. Do you know what happens here when the sun goes down on Thursday nights? If you don't want to know, quit reading. Grown men dress in armor with unsharpened swords and shields -- beat the crap out of each other. No -- I am not kidding. There are rules and honor codes I'm sure but it is great entertainment. It would have been fine if that was all. But there is more! On the other side of the divider, bike polo. Two people on a team, on bikes with sticks hitting a polo ball. A full night of fun. So if you are passing through Rockridge BART station around 8:30pm on a Thursday night, and need a laugh, get off and watch these two groups of people, they don't mind. read more

The Rockridge BART station offers a safe place to park during certain hours, a convenient place to meet family and friends, and a gateway interesting shopping and a variety of meal choices. Access to the station to and from the Highway 24 is also fairly straightforward. And I much prefer this option to MacArthur, which at street level is just not worth the personal risk to my safety. read more

Rating a Bart Station. This station is clean and I have always been able to get a parking spot. Plus it is right by College Ave with all of the neat food shops. Great place to people watch. On this occasion I was going to a Giants game and there was a person with Oakland A's attire on. I asked him what game he was going to and said the Giants but he had no Giant's jerseys or baseball cap. Do what you have to do. Have fun riding Bart! read more

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! read more

Where else can you... * Listen to music and play four square? http://oaklandnorth.net/2010/05/19/four-square-for-adults-at-rockridge-bart/ * Watch this incredible street musician? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u2J0rofzGs * Witness knights sword fighting in fully armored suits? Thursdays from 7-10PM in the west parking lot All in one convenient location. Within easy walking distance to all the best shops, restaurants, and bars in the neighborhood, this BART station rocks. It's clean, safe, equipped with bike lockers & racks, and has two enormous parking lots. I feel comfortable leaving my car here overnight and do so quite often. The station agents are very helpful. I was given a ride voucher once because my Translink card (surprise, surprise) malfunctioned. While completing my voucher form, the agent kept checking the clock to make sure I wouldn't miss my train. Yelp stars for awesome customer service! My only complaint, and this has nothing to do with the station itself, is that finding parking here can be a pain sometimes. It's something to be aware of, especially during holiday weekends or Giants and A's home games. But thankfully turnover is high. With a bit of patience and cat-like reflexes, you'll snag that spot. Rockridge BART is clearly a winner. Eat your heart out, NYMTA! read more

Parking isn't too difficult and is in a nicer area than some that equals 3 stars. The reason this BART station rates 4 stars rather than 3 is: I can get on the trains going in both directions without have to go downstairs and then up the stairs on the other side. While I've never needed to change directions to where I'm going--I do appreciate that if I did, I could just turn around and me on my way. read more

So I was riding with Sam M. and Ruth M. after a fun fun night at Truck. Sam was totally out of it and Ruth was wildly optimistic about our ability to rouse Sam from his slumber before arriving at the station. I warned her that I was "not going to $#@!ing Orinda tonight" as we both worked valiantly to lift Sam, who was just totally asleep. He eventually woke himself and we all got off the train just before the doors closed. Then, Sam tried to exit BART using his house key. This clearly was going to take some time. I was showing Sam my ticket and telling him to get his ticket out, while he was telling us "No, you have to listen to it!" It seemed he was referring to his key, which had no opinion on the matter, but sure as hell was not going to let him out of BART. I looked up at the station agent to tell her we were going to handle it just fine, and she was really cool. On Ruth's urging I grabbed Sam's BART ticket holder out of his back pocket and gave his ticket to him. He proceeded to attempt to exit out of the two entrance gates before reaching an exit gate. I waved goodnight to the station agent who was having a good chuckle. Sam would end up running home, we would not chase him, I mean, the man runs marathons. So, five-stars to Rockridge Station BART for having a cool Saturday night station agent. read more

Nice bart station, unlike it's neighbour macarthur. I didn't get asked for smokes, money, nothing! You will be safe at night. read more

star - Next to Zacharys star - Next to Trader Joes star - Next to Crepevine star - Next to The pasta shop star - Next to my house read more

Smell sensitive? Beware the prevalent smell of perfume and cologne on early morning commuters. Train car smells like a department store... which is still better than piss! ;) read more

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Despite its fancy-pants surroundings, I don't like this BART station. And though I've been known to hold a location's neighborhood against it, in this case, I honestly think this is a bad station, regardless of this part of Oakland that refuses to recognize itself as such. The only thing I like about this station is the view from the platform. It's not close to the main Rockridge drag, and it's really dirty considering who actually uses it. read more

Best BART station in the city of Oakland. Ok - maybe, that is not saying much, but it feels clean and safe which is all one can really ask for. Plus the escalator spits you right out by the Cactus taqueria! This tends to be the station of choice for a night out in the citay, since you can come home late and not be totally sketched out walking home. Or if you parked here, you actually have a shred of hope that your car is safe. Not as many connections as MacArthur, but it smells better, and it still gets you to SFO without having to transfer. I proposed to my wife here. I'm not kidding - I really did propose to her at the Rockridge BART station, amidst a lot of confused commuters. read more

Pee smell: Minimal Garbage: Not in sight Panhandling: One or two Access to building: Fantastical Parking: Hell to the yes read more

This is a nice and clean BART station with a great amount of free parking available on the weekends. However, it is much harder to find parking on weekdays and there is no long term parking in the surrounding residential neighborhood. Beware that this is an outdoor station so you will need to be prepared for the weather when waiting for a train. read more

I'm giving this station five stars for having the cleanest bathroom I've ever seen at a BART station. I was seriously worried that I would have to suffer on the train all the way to San Francisco, but then I spied the bathroom, just past the pay gates, and I was so relieved! In more ways than one! Now if only BART would stop those messages saying that all bathrooms in the BART system were closed. Also, the parking lot often has spaces available (fortunately I don't usually travel peak commute hours, which no doubt helps). read more

I was visiting a friend in the East Bay and got off at the Rockridge Bart station, I thought I was witnessing the quickening... There can be only one and so on. Guys battling with swords and all kinds of warrior gear on. Though I think one guy had a metal bucket with eye holes, it still looked shiny and impressive. I am not sure if the group still does their reenactments here, but it is worth popping down for a sec to watch if you are here on a Thursday. The group I believe is sca.org (I remember being very impressed that they got such a short URL) read more

It's a BART station. It's near stuff. It is reasonably clean. Why the hell are we reviewing individual BART stations? Isn't not like they are close together so we can pick one over another one? This isn't like a mall people.. it's just there. WTF? Just to note, I only gave three stars because this is a BART station and what do you say/rate about a BART station? read more

Cleaner than other stationx.

I enjoy this BART station quite a bit. It's in a pretty nice neighborhood, which means I feel ok waiting around both in the station itself and in the parking lot for a ride. It also means that if I find I have a bunch of time to kill before a train, there's lots of places nearby to wait and possibly eat or browse. It's served well by several buses and is easy to get to when driving. While it does only have the one Pittsburg/Bay Point line, I'll admit if I'm taking this train I'm heading into SF anyway. About the only strike it has going against it is parking. There's never enough, and the lots fill up quickly. Finding street parking is a toss-up at best. read more

I'm not really sure what people are looking for while reviewing Bart stations. So it's fair to say that this one has most everything you need bathroom, elevator, escalator and yes Bart trains. It's also extremely close to some great coffee and great restaurants. That ain't bad. Take that Daly City Bart station! read more

BART - Rockridge Station - Rock ridge sign. Hey and a trash can. - Metro Stations Near Me - Oakland, California

Since about 90% of the east bay commutes into San Francisco daily for work, the rail system in place should really be better. Trains need to run more frequently than 15 minutes especially for early morning and evening commutes. I'm often left waiting for the next train or the train after that. Also, they advertised new trains were coming. I've yet to see any. Ever. read more

I pass through this station more often than I care too (wish I didn't HAVE to commute). Usually, it's painless, not too crowded, everything working OK, and clean enough. They run out of parking usually by ~7:15 - 7:30am. Getting picked up is a bit tricky. One of my students got an absurdly high $300 ticket for pausing in the handicapped zone to pick someone up. On the street, I usually pick up / get picked up in the taxi zone, but under constant fear of a ticket. I usually bike, and it's annoying they don't let you take your bike on the escalator. Still, it's functional enough and I'm glad they let me bring my bike on board at all (unlike NY / DC, etc.) The few times I've used the bathroom, it was serviceable, but sometimes dirty and certainly smelled like a public restroom. Best thing about Rockridge BART is the musicians often playing outside in the afternoons / evenings. I haven't seen "The Bumblebee" playing his sax there lately, but some guy pulled a whole piano out onto the concrete a few weeks ago. read more

Me and my husband use the Rockridge BART Station everyday for going to work. The place is relatively clean from rest of the stations. The parking though is really tricky. We usually end up parking on the street 4 blocks down. And yeah they have a pretty big lot and we are still in the waiting line for the parking permit (I guess on the 1900th # - WOW!) They really have to do something about parking!! The whole neighborhood is nice and is surrounded by some amazing eating places! The best part is the Latino BART officer in the morning who is greeting people with a huge smile on his face. Trust me, that is gonna make anyone smile. read more

Typical BART station, close to a friends house. Not scary, but a lot of stairs and I was traveling with luggage so that was a big of a pin. Otherwise a simple process. read more