Richmond–Warm Springs/South Fremont line

Richmond–Warm Springs/South Fremont line
Overview
Type	Rapid transit
System	Bay Area Rapid Transit
Locale	East Bay Counties: Contra Costa and Alameda Cities: Richmond, El Cerrito, Berkeley, Oakland, San Leandro, Hayward, Union City, and Fremont
Termini	Richmond Warm Springs (South Fremont)
Stations	19 (plus 2 under construction)
Operation
Opened	September 11, 1972 (1972-09-11)
Operator(s)	San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Technical
Track gauge	5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) (Indian gauge)
Electrification	Third rail, 1000 V DC
Operating speed	35.5 mph (57.1 km/h)
Highest elevation	at grade, elevated, underground
Route map Richmond–Warm Springs/South Fremont Amtrak to Bakersfield/Seattle/Chicago Richmond Maintenance Yard Richmond Richmond Greenway I-80 El Cerrito del Norte El Cerrito Plaza Contra Costa County Alameda County North Berkeley Ohlone Greenway Downtown Berkeley Ashby SR 24  Pittsburg/Bay Point–SFO/Millbrae  MacArthur southbound transfer I-580 I-980 / SR 24 19th Street Oakland northbound transfer 12th Street Oakland City Center Pittsburg/Bay Point–SFO/Millbrae Richmond–Daly City/Millbrae Warm Springs/South Fremont–Daly City Dublin/Pleasanton–Daly City Lake Merritt Fruitvale Coliseum  Coliseum–Oakland Int'l Airport  SR 112 / SR 61 San Leandro Bay Fair transfer  Dublin/Pleasanton–Daly City  I-238 Hayward SR 92 South Hayward Hayward Complex Union City Alameda Creek   ACE to Stockton SR 84 Fremont Lake Elizabeth tunnel Irvington proposed Warm Springs / South Fremont SR 262 Alameda County Santa Clara County Calaveras proposed SR 237 Milpitas 2017 Montague (VTA) Berryessa 2017 planned Silicon Valley extension US 101 Alum Rock Downtown San Jose SR 87 Diridon/Arena I-880 Santa Clara Maintenance Facility Santa Clara

The Richmond–Warm Springs/South Fremont line (formerly the Richmond–Fremont line) is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) line in the San Francisco Bay Area that runs from Richmond to Warm Springs station in Fremont. It has 19 stations, and goes through the cities of Richmond, El Cerrito, Berkeley, Oakland, San Leandro, Hayward, Union City, and Fremont, and is the only BART line that does not go to San Francisco. It shares all of its tracks with other BART lines on weekdays and Saturdays before 7pm.

BART colors this line orange on maps but does not refer to it by color. As BART's only line that does not cross the San Francisco Bay (through the Transbay Tube), it is alternatively called the East Bay line or Land line.

This line was the first of BART's five lines to open. Service from MacArthur to Fremont began on September 11, 1972, the first day of BART operation.^[1] The line was extended to Richmond on January 29, 1973.^[1] Initial fares were $1.00 for Fremont to MacArthur and $1.10 for Fremont to Richmond. The line was extended to Warm Springs/South Fremont station on March 25, 2017 as part of BART's Warm Springs extension project and the first phase of the Silicon Valley extension project; service to Warm Springs is limited to weeknights after 6pm and weekends.

This line will be extended to Berryessa station in San Jose later in Fall 2017. Current plans call for the line to be eventually extended to Santa Clara station.

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