West Dublin / Pleasanton (BART station)

West Dublin / Pleasanton
Bay Area Rapid Transit

A view of the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station from south side of Interstate 580
Location

6501 Golden Gate Drive, Dublin, CA 94568

Stoneridge Mall Road, Pleasanton, CA 94588
Coordinates 37°41′59″N 121°55′42″W / 37.699726°N 121.928273°W / 37.699726; -121.928273Coordinates: 37°41′59″N 121°55′42″W / 37.699726°N 121.928273°W / 37.699726; -121.928273
Line(s)
Platforms 1 island
Connections WHEELS: Tri-Valley Rapid, 3, 3V, 53, 54
Tri-Delta Transit: Delta Express
Construction
Parking 1190 spaces
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened February 19, 2011
Traffic
Passengers (FY 2013) 3,022 exits/day[1]Increase 27.3%
Services
Preceding station   Bay Area Rapid Transit   Following station
Terminus
Dublin/Pleasanton–Daly City
toward Daly City

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. This station was an infill station that began revenue service almost 14 years after the rest of this portion of the Dublin/Pleasanton–Daly City line, opening on Saturday, February 19, 2011 with a ceremony taking place the day before.[2][3]

Station layout

M Mezzanine One-way faregates, ticket machines, station agent
P
Platform
level
Westbound      Dublin/Pleasanton–Daly City toward Daly City (Castro Valley)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Eastbound      Dublin/Pleasanton–Daly City toward Dublin / Pleasanton (Terminus)

History

Avg. Weekday Ridership
FY* Ridership
2011 652
2012 2,373 +263.9%
2013 3,022 +27.3%
2014 3,411 +12.9%
Source: Ridership Reports
Station construction on May 1, 2009

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 October 29, 2006, and was slated to be complete in 2009,[4] but possible faulty construction delayed its opening until 2011.[5]

Its cost was estimated at $106 million,[2] with funding coming from a unique public-private partnership and the proceeds of planned transit-oriented development (TOD) on adjacent BART-owned property.

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.[6]

Transit connections

Bus service is provided by WHEELS, including a line providing express service to the Pleasanton ACE station,[7] and Tri-Valley Rapid (a Bus rapid transit line),[8] using techniques such as signal prioritization and queue-jump lanes to provide faster bus service connecting Stoneridge Mall, Lawrence Livermore/Sandia Laboratories, and BART.

See also

References

  1. "BART Fiscal Year Weekday Average Exits". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 "BART riders celebrate grand opening of West Dublin/Pleasanton Station Saturday". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). February 18, 2011. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
  3. Cabanatuan, Michael (December 17, 2010). "BART to open West Dublin/Pleasanton Station". San Francisco Chronicle (Hearst Newspapers). Retrieved 2010-12-18.
  4. Pal, Meera (May 9, 2007). "Pleasanton gets look at 'transit village'". Tri-Valley Herald (ANG Newspapers). Retrieved 2007-05-09.
  5. Louie, Eric (August 10, 2009). "Welding issues could delay new West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station". Contra Costa Times (ANG Newspapers). Retrieved 2009-08-23.
  6. "A History of BART - The Project is Rescued". Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  7. "New West Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station". Route Schedules and Maps. WHEELS (California). January 2011. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011.
  8. Tri-Valley Rapid

External links

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