MacArthur BART Station

This is a review for the whole Bart. Bart has wonderful front office staff always. Bart is great because of its accessibility and parking as well schedule. Bart needs to massively improve its cleanliness and need to enforce non loitering. It seems that on a daily basis the seats and floors do not get wiped or mopped as you can still smell in the morning and all day trace of all kinds of body fluids. Bart would need to enforce also the ridership of patrons with valid Bart tickets and rides to ensure that seats are available legitimately as well as passenger comfort and safety. There are no Bart inspectors checking tickets. Compared to the trains in Asia and Europe, Bart needs to be massively improved hygiene and cleanliness side and ridership with valid tickets. I would pay a little bit more to make this happen.

The station itself is fine during the day but the emery go around shuttle is poorly run. I sat in there forever as the driver proceeded to have a long personal conversation on the phone with a bus full of people. And it smells like vodka everywhere.

This is a major BART station and I have changed trains here many times. Not safe at night but otherwise OK.

William is wonderful. station attendant that was kind and looked after everyone. wonderful person.

Bart is bart, not much to say here.

I definitely like this Bart station I Always catch my trains on time! And it’s always cool service when you ask the Bart staff for questions if you need it. I always take the emery go round to get to the station and it is a great option if you need to get to the Bart station. If you don’t want to drive and your looking to get anywhere in the baby area I recommend this Bart station!

Additional star for the new parking garage and the station upgrades now in progress. Also because this station is a transfer point to other lines and has more trains running into SF…

Since I can’t review BART itself, I will pick it’s transfer station. BART is dirty, is constantly having issues & delays and is outrageously over priced. For instance, today — it took me over 2 hours to go from Pittsburg to SF. I was forced to change trains and had to stand, with my suitcase for 9 slow stops because of it. With non– stop starts & stops, being thrown around in a hot train — I am done with you. All they can tell me is its a service situation. Maybe you should take better care of your trains & tracks! I should have just driven & paid for valet, at $ 26 for 2 people to ride it would have been faster, cleaner & cheaper.

This BART station has a decent size parking lot and they even sell flowers and whatnot. But I did notice this stop is a bit more ghetto than others. This is one of the main stations for you to make your transfers to go to SF/​Berkeley/​etc. Just be sure you read the signs carefully so you know which BART to transfer to next. But if you’re lost, just ask one of the employees there. The one I interacted with seemed really friendly and was very helpful!

This will turn into a 4 star once that corner construction becomes a nicer garage and hopefully some eating options too but I digress.
Like how there’s a waiting area on the main road, as well as on the other side for the regular buses. But do not even attempt to pickup some one in the shuttle bus lane anymore, as police were giving out tickets.
It’s a smaller station, so easy to exit.

The MacArthur BART station is in the MacArthur neighborhood near the freeway.
It is a transfer station, so you use it to get to several different points you couldn’t access before. It has three lines and not much seating in the station. It is close to the downtowns of Oakland and San Francisco.
Transfering can be a difficult battle of having to run down the stairs and then up again for switching from south to north, like going from Walnut Creek to El Cerrito.
MacArthur has lots of vendors nearby, but a bad neighborhood.
Overall, MacArthur is a good, but not great station.

What should be a great system with 30 plus years of experience is instead a delay-​ridden, whiny bunch of f@ckery. A 30 minute delay on a Saturday afternoon due to track maintenance? Really? Something they don’t tell you until you are on the train and stuck. Well, thanks, Bart, I had no where to be ON TIME. Sure, I LOVE sitting at a random station waiting… Hmmm… Let’s put it on a sliding scale? I will pay you for the service you provide. Today’s ride is worth $.25.

This is what I get here. FILA’s and saggy pants. I always hate racism so I perpetuate some harmless sterow types. This place is like… Let’s keep going and get to the city dealio. Nuff said.

Not my favorite station. Yes, it’s where many of the trains go through, but it’s a terrible spot to pick up and drop people off. The neighborhood is a bit dicey, and not really where I want to walk around at night. And even car drop off is not really practical.
Better off taking people to Rockridge or even 19^th Street.

BART in general has gotten terrible. Everything from workers, sanitation, stations, safety, homeless on trains, thugs on train and the train itself has gotten bad throughout the years. I am not sure if it can ever be fixed as the worst of what I had witness occurred today.
Please look at the picture as it may not surprise some of you readers. It is human waste on a seat.

Not in the nicest part of town but so convenient.

BART stations make me wanna to take a bath in hand sanitizer.
MacArthur is the biggest station in the BART system and of course it has no shortage of bums and druggies. The upside is that you get a free contact high from all the people smoking weed. Its a bit cleaner than the other ones and the parking structure should make it much more convenient.
As of this review date, a big chunk of the station is under construction. They are adding a massive parking garage right next door but parking is a mess. There are a lot worse BART stations but in the end you can’t really do anything about them.

Great for using EmeryGoRound.
DON’T leave your bike locked up here.. .

This station is one of the transfer points for passengers to board a train heading to a different destination than the train he/​she is on. My husband and I had to do that on our way from the Pleasant Hill Station to our destination, the Lake Merritt Station (transfer from SF train to Fremont train).
The only thing I like about this station is the shuttle bus heading to and from the Bay Street Shops in Emeryville. It also has a very spacious parking lot for people using BART to commute to work. It’s not a station that I would want to hang around in the evening. Area is kinda sketchy.

You get a little bit of everything at this station…
— Bums asking for change
— Kids hanging out on their skateboards
— Neighbors walking their dogs and letting them dookie everywhere
— Business people getting on the Emery-​go-​Round shuttle
— Tourist with big luggages asking locals how to much it cost to ride the Emery-​go-​Round shuttle (it’s free, btw)
— Mysterious pee stench
— Normal to crazy people taking free Kaiser shuttles to the hospital
The first time I came here, I was scared out of my wits. But eventually, you get use to the circus and become immune. Don’t get me wrong, it can also be dangerous here. Just keep your guard up. What I usually tell people… I’ve been BARTing out of here for 8 years and nothing ever happened to me.