{"id":157200,"date":"2026-01-30T23:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157200\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:28:08","slug":"west-oakland-bart-station-closes-after-major-medical-emergency-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157200\/","title":{"rendered":"West Oakland BART station closes after major medical emergency \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major medical emergency has resulted in the closure of the West Oakland BART station Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>BART officials announced at about 2:20 p.m. that there is a major delay in both directions because of the emergency and trains aren&#8217;t stopping at West Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>BART spokesperson Chris Filiippi said someone entered the trackway and a collision with a train may have occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Trains are getting through the West Oakland station on the opposite track, Filippi said. There is also no Green Line or Red Line service currently, according to BART officials.<\/p>\n<p>Riders can still get across the bay by taking a Blue Line or Yellow Line train, officials added. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">West Oakland Station is temporarily closed due to a major medical emergency, and trains are not stopping at the station.<\/p>\n<p>Riders can still get across the bay by taking a Blue or Yellow line train. There is currently no service on the Red and Green lines. Riders traveling to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BART (@SFBART) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFBART\/status\/2017365545121943867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was no initial indication of foul play, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Bay City News contributed to this report<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major medical emergency has resulted in the closure of the West Oakland BART station Friday afternoon. BART&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3767,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-157200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bart","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}