Calaveras (BART station)
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Calaveras BART station is a planned at-grade Bay Area Rapid Transit
Bay Area Rapid Transit
Bay Area Rapid Transit is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The heavy-rail public transit and subway system connects San Francisco with cities in the East Bay and suburbs in northern San Mateo County. BART operates five lines on of track with 44 stations in four counties...

 station in downtown Milpitas, California
Milpitas, California
Milpitas is a city in Santa Clara County, California. It is a suburb of the major city of San Jose, California. It is located with San Jose to its south and Fremont to its north, at the eastern end of State Route 237 and generally between Interstates 680 and 880 which run roughly north/south...

, part of the Silicon Valley BART extension
Silicon Valley BART extension
The Silicon Valley BART extension is a set of three or four phases of expansion of the Bay Area Rapid Transit from its current terminus in Fremont to Santa Clara County...

. It is the first station site in Santa Clara County but will not be the first station built due to funding. Service will be to Richmond, San Francisco and Santa Clara.

History

Currently an extension is being built from Fremont to Warm Springs station
Warm Springs (BART station)
Warm Springs will be an at-grade BART station in Fremont. Construction on the station began in fall 2010; it is scheduled to open in late 2015....

 in the Warms Springs District in Fremont, this will be followed by the Phase I Berryessa Extension
Berryessa (BART station)
Berryessa BART station is a future Bay Area Rapid Transit station scheduled to begin construction in the summer of 2012 and open in 2018 in San José, California as part of the Silicon Valley BART extension...

 into eastern San Jose. Subsequently Phase II will be built to Santa Clara. The Calaveras station was originally going to be part of the Phase I extension however funding could not be secured. The Calaveras station will be built as part of Phase II. This station will connect with the VTA and AC Transit
AC Transit
AC Transit is an Oakland-based regional public transit agency serving the western half of Alameda County and parts of western Contra Costa County in the western, Bay-side area of the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area...

 buses. It will lie between Warm Springs
Warm Springs (BART station)
Warm Springs will be an at-grade BART station in Fremont. Construction on the station began in fall 2010; it is scheduled to open in late 2015....

 and Milpitas
Milpitas (BART station)
Milpitas BART station also known as Montague station is a future Bay Area Rapid Transit station scheduled to begin construction in the summer of 2012 and open in 2018 in the city of Milpitas, California as part of the Silicon Valley BART extension. It will be both the first BART station in Santa...

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