Alum Rock BART station is a planned underground Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The heavy-rail public transit and subway system connects San Francisco with cities in the East Bay and suburbs in northern San Mateo County. BART operates five lines on of track with 44 stations in four counties...

 station in eastern San Jose, California

San Jose, California

San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

. It will be the first station of the Phase II portion of the Silicon Valley BART extension

Silicon Valley BART extension

The Silicon Valley BART extension is a set of three or four phases of expansion of the Bay Area Rapid Transit from its current terminus in Fremont to Santa Clara County...

. It will be located near Highway 101 and Santa Clara Street. The station will have direct service to Santa Clara, Richmond

Richmond Station (California)

Richmond Station is an at-grade Bay Area Rapid Transit and Amtrak station located in Richmond, California. Each system is served by an island platform. The Capitol Corridor, San Joaquins, California Zephyr, and Coast Starlight stop here and connect to BART. The station is currently being rebuilt...

, and San Francisco/Daly City

Daly City (BART station)

Daly City Station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located in extreme northern San Mateo County, California, in suburban Daly City, less than one block outside the San Francisco city and county limits. Interstate 280 and California Route 1 run along the immediate west side of the station...

.

History

Currently an extension is being built from Fremont to Warm Springs station

Warm Springs (BART station)

Warm Springs will be an at-grade BART station in Fremont. Construction on the station began in fall 2010; it is scheduled to open in late 2015....

 in the Warms Springs District in Fremont, this will be followed by the Berryessa Extension

Berryessa (BART station)

Berryessa BART station is a future Bay Area Rapid Transit station scheduled to begin construction in the summer of 2012 and open in 2018 in San José, California as part of the Silicon Valley BART extension...

 into eastern San Jose. The Alum Rock station was originally going to be part of this extension however funding could not be secured. Therefore the San Jose extension was split into two phases. This station will be located between the Berryessa

Berryessa (BART station)

Berryessa BART station is a future Bay Area Rapid Transit station scheduled to begin construction in the summer of 2012 and open in 2018 in San José, California as part of the Silicon Valley BART extension...

 and Downtown San Jose Station

Downtown San José (BART station)

Downtown San Jose BART station is a planned underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station in southern San Jose, California, part of the Silicon Valley BART extension...

. This station will connect with the VTA buses.