The Warm Springs BART Station Rotunda will welcome passengers at the entrance to the station.
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Milpitas BART Station: Crews work on connecting the aerial platforms to the station concourse.
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Milpitas BART Station: Workers build the concourse, where passengers will enter to access BART.
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Warm Springs BART Station: One worker screws in a screen, while the other worker sweeps the top of the platform.
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Milpitas BART Station: Crews work on the frame and roof of the station.
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Warm Springs BART Station: The Rotunda interior features artwork from professionals, keeping in line with FTA guidelines to incorporate art in mass transit.
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Warm Springs BART Station: View shows station from afar with the parking lot on the front and the rotunda on the far right.
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Berryessa BART Station: Worker inspects new aerial platforms.
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Light rail passes through Montague Station with Milpitas BART Station in background.
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Warm Springs BART Station: Workers install ticket machines.
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Berryessa BART Station: Worker Bret Fletcher reinforces rebar for parking structure.
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Warm Springs BART Station: Worker cuts stainless steel to make the framing for ticket machines.
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Warm Springs BART Station as seen from the platform.
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Berryessa BART Station: Worker dry finishes concrete on the elevated platform. Behind him is the parking structure.
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Warm Springs BART Station: Worker caulks a gap near the tracks.
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Berryessa BART Station: Worker dry finishes concrete on the elevated platform. Behind him is the parking structure.
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This pedestrian overpass will connect Montague Station (light rail) with Milpitas BART Station.
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Lily Moses hammers while working in the Milpitas BART Station.
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Milpitas BART Station: This is the tunnel that trains will use when leaving the station southbound.
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Warm Springs BART Station: Worker caulks a gap near the tracks.
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BART’s long-anticipated extension to the South Bay is making huge progress with over 15 miles of track laid between the Fremont BART station and the future Berryessa station. Three stations are starting to take form, with one station near completion. Photographer Noah Berger captured the construction activities in mid-October, at all three stations that are part of the new extension: Warm Springs, Milpitas and Berryessa.
The first leg of the BART extension — a 5.4-mile segment from BART’s current Fremont station to Fremont’s Warm Springs district — is close to completion. Ditto for the Warm Springs station itself, with its distinctive rotunda built and ticketing stations already in place. According to the BART Warm Springs Extension Community Relations team, “Construction activities are nearly complete, with most of the remaining work involving finishes at the Warm Springs/South Fremont station. The most significant task now involves testing the critical traction power, automatic train control and subway emergency ventilation systems.” In the adjacent photo gallery, construction workers are pictured making the final additions to the station, with rail electrification testing to begin November and service to begin in 2016.
Further south along the tracks are the Milpitas and Berryessa stations, the two stations being built in Phase I of the BART-to-Silicon Valley project, which will link the new Warm Springs station with north San Jose. Construction workers are finishing the framework for the sky-lit concourse where future riders will enter to access BART and the pedestrian overcrossing that will connect existing VTA light rail to the BART station at Milpitas. Meanwhile at Berryessa station, workers are building out the train tunnels, elevated platforms and the parking structure. The first phase of the BART to Silicon Valley extension is slated to open mid-2017. The second and final phase will extend BART to Alum Rock, Downtown San Jose, Diridon Station and Santa Clara and is slated to begin construction in 2019 as additional funding is secured.
MTC is a key advocate for securing funding for the BART extensions, which are part of MTC’s regional rail plan. MTC allocated $294 million in regional toll revenues and $69 million in State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) funding for BART to Warm Springs, and secured $1.1 million in federal New Starts funding for BART to Silicon Valley.