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BART Directors Officially Name New Station
The new station, which will connect Bay Area commuters to Santa Clara County, will be called the Warm Springs/South Fremont Station.
BART has reached a milestone in the process of connecting Bay Area commuters to Santa Clara County by 2015: naming one of the future route's stations.
The newest station has been labeled Warm Springs/South Fremont after the BART board of directors voted on the name Thursday at agency headquarters in Oakland.
BART Director Tom Blalock, representing BART's District 6, which includes Fremont, said in a statement that the station's name "memorializes the history of Warm Springs, which officially became part of Fremont when the city was incorporated in 1956."
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The Fremont City Council approved the station name in February, according to BART officials.
The station will be part of the Warm Springs Extension -- a 5.4-mile addition expected to open by 2015. It will be located at Warm Springs and South Grimmer boulevards in Fremont.
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The Warm Springs Extension is an $890 million project, BART officials said.
Part of the multi-million dollar budget is for signage and other titled material, which can move forward now that the station is officially named.
A separate 10-mile extension will go further into Silicon Valley connecting the now-named Warm Springs station to a station in San Jose's Berryessa neighborhood.
--Bay City News
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