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The Silicon Valley BART extension (officially VTA's BART Silicon Valley Extension Program, [1] commonly known as BART Silicon Valley) is an ongoing effort to expand the Green and Orange Line service by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) into Santa Clara County via the East Bay from its former terminus at the Fremont station in Alameda County.
Because Santa Clara County is not among the member counties of the BART District (having opted out at the district's inception, like neighboring San Mateo County), VTA is responsible for building the extension within Santa Clara County. VTA allocated initial funds for constructing BART using the proceeds from a sales tax referendum which was ...
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.BART serves 50 stations along six routes and 131 miles (211 kilometers) of track, including eBART, a 9-mile (14 km) spur line running to Antioch, and Oakland Airport Connector, a 3-mile (4.8 km) automated guideway transit line serving Oakland International Airport.
The four-station Phase II of the Silicon Valley BART extension will add underground stations at 28th Street/ Little Portugal, Downtown San José, and Diridon in San José, plus the surface-level Santa Clara station; it is planned to open in 2036. [10] An infill station on the Warm Springs extension at Irvington is planned to
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The Silicon Valley BART Extension, managed by the VTA, is a 6-mile extension of BART service to San Jose and Santa Clara in Santa Clara County.Phase I was completed with the opening of the Berryessa/North San José station in 2020, which is the first BART station in San Jose.
In 2000, Santa Clara County voters approved a 30-year-long half cent sales tax increase to fund a BART extension to San Jose. Construction of the Warm Springs extension began in 2009, with a planned opening in 2014. [77] [78] By the time of the extension's opening on March 25, 2017, the start of revenue service had been delayed over two years.