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Bay Area Rapid Transit expansion


Throughout the history of Bay Area Rapid Transit, better known as BART, there have been plans to extend service to other areas.

Completed projects include the extensions to Colma and Pittsburg/Bay Point (1996), Dublin/Pleasanton (1997), SFO/Milbrae (2003), the automated guideway transit spur line that connects BART to Oakland International Airport (2014), and the Warm Springs extension (2017).

The Silicon Valley extension is under construction from Warm Springs to the Berryessa neighborhood station in San Jose, linking BART to light rail in Santa Clara County. The Federal Transit Administration awarded $900 million for the project in 2012. The extension broke ground in 2012, and had been scheduled for completion in 2016. Revenue service is expected in late 2017 or 2018.

An infill station at Calaveras Blvd/SR 237 in downtown Milpitas is optional; this station is not currently funded. The Milpitas station will be near Montague Expressway, co-located with the existing Montague light rail station of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). Service on this line will terminate at the Berryessa Station.

The eBART expansion plan calls for standard gauge diesel multiple unit (DMU) light rail train service to be implemented from the existing Pittsburg/Bay Point station to a Hillcrest Avenue station in Antioch, with an intermediate station at Railroad Avenue in Pittsburg. Revenue service between Pittsburg/Bay Point and Antioch is currently projected to begin in 2018.


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