Six Capitol Corridor trains will skip Oakland Coliseum station through Jan. 1 over lighting
Starting Monday, Oct. 26, three weekday and three weekend Capitol Corridor trains won't stop at Oakland Coliseum because platform and street lighting there is still out. The change runs through Jan. 1, 2027.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 2 min read
A BART Fleet of the Future train at Coliseum station. Photo: Insightwm / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
Six Capitol Corridor trains will not stop at Oakland Coliseum station from Monday, Oct. 26, through Friday, Jan. 1, 2027, because lighting around the station is out and will take time to fix, the rail line said.
Which trains
Weekdays: trains 521, 547 and 550
Weekends: trains 746, 747 and 748
All other trains and stations run on schedule. Conductors will honor tickets at adjacent stations, and riders are encouraged to transfer to or from BART at Richmond.
Background
Capitol Corridor reported on Oct. 13 that platform lights were out at Oakland Coliseum, Berkeley and Suisun-Fairfield. By Oct. 14, Suisun-Fairfield was fully restored and Berkeley partially restored, but work was still underway on the platform lights, streetlights and the ramp to the pedestrian bridge at Oakland Coliseum. The agency urged caution at the station in early-morning and late-night hours.
Sources
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