Warm Springs (BART station)
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Warm Springs will be an at-grade BART
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
Metro station
A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....

 in Fremont
Fremont, California
Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California. It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs...

. Construction on the station began in fall 2010; it is scheduled to open in late 2015.

This station is the southern end of the BART Warm Springs 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...

, a project to add 5.4 miles (8.7 km) of new tracks from the existing Fremont BART station
Fremont (BART station)
Fremont is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station that serves Fremont, California. The elevated island platform serves as the southernmost terminal station of BART's Fremont line, which is served by trains on the Fremont - Daly City Line, which runs daytimes Monday-Saturday, and the Richmond - Fremont...

, including a subway under man-made Lake Elizabeth
Lake Elizabeth (Fremont, California)
Lake Elizabeth, located in Fremont, California, is a man made lake. When at average capacity, water rises to a depth of about seven feet.-About:...

 and Fremont Central Park. After the subway portion, the line will parallel the existing at-grade right-of-way belonging to Union Pacific. Major crossings of both Union Pacific and BART, such as Paseo Padre Parkway and Washington Boulevard, will be grade-separated in collaboration with the City of Fremont.

The project includes an option for a station in Irvington, between Fremont and Warm Springs stations, but this station is currently not funded.

Construction of the underground portions of the train line are expected to be completed in late 2012, with the station opening in late 2015.

The station will have an at-grade island platform with an overhead concourse, transit connections to 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...

 and VTA
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is a special-purpose district responsible for public transit services, congestion management, specific highway improvement projects, and countywide transportation planning for Santa Clara County, California, United States...

, 2000 parking spots, taxi stands, and drop-off zones.

BART plans to begin construction on an extension to San José from the Warm Springs station in summer 2012, with 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...

 and Berryessa
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...

 stations planned to open in 2018.

In 2011 the city of Fremont approved $US 90,000 to hire a lobbyist to prevent Union Pacific from opening a new rail yard on property it bought adjacent to the station. If this happened it is believed that transit oriented development would not be feasible.

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