| West Dublin/Pleasanton Rapid transit |
|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Station statistics | |||||||||||
| Address |
6501 Golden Gate Drive, Dublin, CA 94568 |
||||||||||
| Lines | |||||||||||
| Connections | WHEELS: Tri-Valley Rapid, 3, 3V, 53, 54 Tri-Delta Transit: Delta Express |
||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island | ||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||
| Opened | February 19, 2011 | ||||||||||
| Accessible | |||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
West Dublin/Pleasanton is a BART station on the Dublin/Pleasanton - Daly City Line, located in the median of I-580, just west of I-680. It opened for revenue service on Saturday, February 19, 2011, with a ceremony taking place the day before.[1][2]
The station was originally planned to enter into service as part of the original extension to Dublin/Pleasanton, which entered service in 1997. As a result, the station's foundation, along with some communication and train control facilities, already existed on-site. Construction on the station began on 29 October 2006, and was slated to be complete in 2009,[3] but possible faulty construction delayed its opening until 2011.[1][4]
Its cost was estimated at $80 million,[1] with funding coming from a unique public-private partnership and the proceeds of planned transit-oriented development (TOD) on adjacent BART-owned property.
Bus service is provided by WHEELS, including a line providing express service to the Pleasanton ACE station,[5] and Tri-Valley Rapid [6], a BRT line, using techniques such as signal prioritization and queue-jump lanes to provide faster bus service connecting Stoneridge Mall, Lawrence Livermore/Sandia Laboratories and BART.
This is BART's 44th station and is only the second infill station to be built in the system, the other being Embarcadero Station, which opened in 1976.[7]