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Is the Oakland, CA airport in a bad area? |
Travel Info I'm flying to the west coast in June/July and no nothing about the airport or the surrounding area. Travel Tips Stay in the airport and you will be safe. Oakland itself is not a safe city Others You'll be completely safe at the airport, and you can safely take a shuttle/cab to Coliseum Bart (metro) where you could go to San Francisco or where ever you're planning to stay. I wouldn't wander around the coliseum bart station area though. Oakland has safe and unsafe parts, it has a high murder rate but usually this is gang on gang violence. But the airport itself is safe. EDIT: Just so you know, Oakland's reputation has been greatly exaggerated by people who watch the local evening news programs, but those of us who actually live there know there are more safe than un-safe parts. Don't let anyone who answers here scare you. Inside the actual airport is fine, just don't venture out. Oakland is crime infested You're perfectly safe within the confines of Oakland Airport. This includes the BART shuttle stops and parking lots outside. It's a really small airport (in comparison to SFO International), and there are federal agents all over the place. However, the surrounding neighborhood is not safe, and I wouldn't recommend staying there overnight. Most folks are headed for Downtown San Francisco any way. And it's obviously not dangerous if you're seeing it from the window of a taxi cab, rental car, or BART train. Oakland airport is my favorite airport to fly in and out of. I prefer it over San Francisco Airport or San Jose Airport. It's small, and safe. I use it all the time. You can safely take the airport-to-BART bus, and go anywhere from there. I would not walk around in the neighborhood surrounding the BART station, but why would you? Nothing there to see. it is actually the worst part of oakland. i dont live in oakland but i live in Berkeley. dont worry though the only way someone could acess the airport is through a car. so no crimals walk over there. when you arrive you could take a shuttle to the Subway station. the airport is on a islandish place . I live under 400 yards from the west perimeter of Oakland Airport. Other than traffic stops and a couple of accidents I have never seen any issue round Oakland airport. If you stay to the airport side of I880 on 98th there is nothing to worry about. I have been pestered by the pan handlers in the gas stations on Hegenberger, but only twice in nine years. I have flown from OAK many times without incident or even seeing anything unusual, since 9-11 the Alameda County Sheriff's department is always there, they love issuing traffic citations. As to Oakland not being dangerous, they had 148 killed last year, the map at the link below shows that they are fairly randomly distributed through the whole of Oakland. However, only three of 550 in the last 5 years have been on the airport side of I880 and those were very close to I880. |
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