Downtown San Jose 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 southern 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...

, part 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...

. The station will be co-located with the Santa Clara Light Rail Station

Santa Clara (VTA)

Santa Clara is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority . Santa Clara station is served by both the Alum Rock–Santa Teresa and Mountain View–Winchester light rail lines....

 and 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...

.

Background and plans

Scheduled for completion in 2014, the Warm Springs extension is being built by BART 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 first extension of BART into Santa Clara county, to be built by VTA. The original plan for the San Jose extension included the Downtown San Jose station, but funding could not be secured
and the San Jose extension was split into two phases. Phase one, planned for completion in 2018, is the Berryessa Extension
into eastern San Jose. The Downtown San Jose station will be included in a subsequent, unfunded phase two, the San Jose subway extension, to be completed after 2025.
The station will be located between the Alum Rock

Alum Rock (BART station)

Alum Rock BART station is a planned underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station in eastern San Jose, California. It will be the first station of the Phase II portion of the Silicon Valley BART extension. It will be located near Highway 101 and Santa Clara Street...

 and Diridon/Arena BART stations.

Local bus service will be provided by VTA in addition to commuter service from Santa Cruz Metro, Monterey Salinas Transit

Monterey Salinas Transit

Monterey-Salinas Transit, , provides bus service within Monterey County in California. Service is primarily to the greater Monterey and Salinas areas, but extends as far south as Paso Robles and Big Sur and as far north as Watsonville and San Jose...

, San Benito Transit and private/ employer shuttles.