$11 million of the funds came from the City of Fremont while the remaining $30 million came from the Alameda County Transportation Commission. The 250-foot pedestrian bridge cost $41 million to build and was originally supposed to open in 2018. Before the bridge, riders had to walk more than a mile, in fact, around the tracks to the station’s east entrance. The tracks had long been an unwanted barrier for people who head west from the station toward Tesla’s factory, as well as some other workplaces and housing developments. After years of delays, BART has opened a new pedestrian bridge and plaza on the west side of the station that now allows passengers to walk right over the five sets of tracks. The South Freemont Station is also a landmark station for the City of Fremont.BART riders who get on and off at the Warm Springs/South Fremont station will no longer have to make take an arduous, indirect trek around the nearby Union Pacific railroad tracks. For example, the project required coordinating the conceptualization, design, fabrication, delivery and installation of over 7,278 SF pieces of international fabricated art glass which forms decorative cladding at the station entrance and either side of the concourse level. The Warm Springs / South Fremont Station is fully accessible to pedestrians and bicyclists, and includes bike lockers, elevators and escalators, Braille signs and a tactile sight path to aid riders with disabilities. The new station also provides approximately 2,000 parking spaces. The Warm Springs Station features a 700-foot-at-grade island platform with an overhead concourse, intermodal access to Valley Transit Authority (VTA) and Alameda-Contra Costa Transit (AC Transit) buses, as well as taxi and, “kiss and ride” passenger drop off areas, all via Warm Springs Boulevard. The project alignment crosses over Walnut Avenue under Stevenson Boulevard, Fremont Central Park and the Union Pacific Railroad track in a subway over Paseo Padre Parkway under Washington Boulevard under Auto Mall Parkway and over South Grimmer Boulevard. The scope of work included a center platform station at Warm Springs, trackwork and duct banks through and ventilation of an existing subway under Fremont Central Park and the existing Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) track, elevated trackway structures, miscellaneous drainage structures and small bridges, retaining walls, sound walls, utility protections/relocations and services, excavation and embankments, landscaping, demolition, site restoration, and related traction power, train control, and communications systems work. The Warm Springs Extension adds 5.4-miles of new tracks from the existing Fremont Station south to a new station in the Warm Springs district of the City of Fremont. The BART Warm Springs Extension Design-build project consists of furnishing all management, coordination, professional services, labor, equipment, materials and other services to perform the design and construction of the line, track, station and systems required to extend the BART System further into southern Alameda County from the existing Fremont BART Station to the new Warm Springs Station. Warm Springs Extension Design-Build Alameda County, California
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