⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ BART: Berryessa/North San Jose - Warm Springs/South Fremont (First Day of Service)

After decades of planning and years of delays, Phase 1 of BART’s Silicon Valley extension is finally here. Take a 10-mile journey with us on the first day of service, and on the first-ever northbound in-service Fleet of the Future train, as we travel from the new end of the Green and Orange Lines at Berryessa/North San Jose to Warm Springs/South Fremont.
To watch the southbound journey between these three stations, click here: • ⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ BART: Warm Spring...
To see some train action at Milpitas, click here: • ⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ BART: Fleet of th...
To see some more train action at Berryessa, click here: • ⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ BART: Fleet of th...
Ever since BART’s inception, plans included service within San Jose’s city limits. This was indefinitely put on hold, however, when Santa Clara County pulled out of negotiations in 1957 in favor of building abominable expressways.
In the late 90s, San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales and East Bay officials met for preliminary discussions about the prospect of extending BART to San Jose. In 2000, VTA’s proposed sales tax for funding construction costs passed with 71 percent support. The line was to be built to Santa Clara, with stops at Diridon, Downtown San Jose, 28th St/Little Portugal, Berryessa, Milpitas, and Warm Springs/South Fremont.
Construction didn’t begin for another 12 years, at which point the extension had to be split into two phases due to the 2009 recession and subsequent budgetary shortfalls. The first phase was to be built to Berryessa, with one intermediate stop at Milpitas.
Originally slated to open in 2016, the extension experienced a series of setbacks that pushed the opening date back by four years. A likely partial culprit was the fact that the extension was built by one agency (VTA) and operates under another (BART), which caused no small amount of headaches during the construction period.
Nevertheless, construction and testing have been completed, and after decades of ambivalence and uncertainty, residents of Santa Clara County are able to board BART trains in their county for the first time.
The journey from Berryessa to Milpitas takes about four minutes, and an additional nine minutes to Warm Springs. The extension brings BART’s total station count to 50, and its total track mileage to 131.
In the year 2030, we may see the Orange and Green lines extended once again, this time further south as part of Phase 2 of the Silicon Valley extension to Downtown San Jose and Santa Clara. The opening of Milpitas and Berryessa will likely remain the most recent expansion of the system for at least another decade.
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Contents:
0:00 - Berryessa Train Arrival
0:54 - Berryessa/North San Jose - Milpitas
5:08 - Milpitas - Warm Springs/South Fremont

[@iannarita9816]

This is great to watch. I remember when BART first opened in 1972. Then to Richmond,the Concord line, San Francisco - Daly City and finally(for a while) the TransBay tube. I I can't believe the Rohr built cars have lasted as long as they have. Many of the Rohr cars have to be pushing 50 years old.

[@daystar4909]

I wonder where the old BART cars end up when they cannot use them anymore?

[@dominicmatthews4686]

I love 💘 the Bart train 🚆 old and new 😍 I wish I can ride on a new Bart train one day 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@tanesha1986]

Love new stops and new train

[@NomadicDmitry]

It was a great day. I took the train and enjoyed the weather in the Bay Area. This is a huge milestone guys!

[@JMH702]

At last!!!! The thing I’ve been waiting YEARS for

[@jpgm2015]

That miltapas station was literally beautiful

[@burgh1972]

Such a quiet and smooth ride!

[@overviewstrain]

San Jose looks beautiful!

[@Someonesaidthis]

Should have been built when bart was created, i believe when bart was originally planned, it was to be built all around the bay and all the way up to Vallejo..

[@worldtraveller2711]

Very nice new brand trains! Looking forward travelling again to SFO and ride on them!

[@swaybone11]

The Bay Area needs full light rail coverage AND full light electric vehicle access to the freeway system from San Jose through Silicon Valley and to Marin, Santa Rosa and the Mountain of Attention.

[@JMH702]

Don’t forget Los Gatos

[@thornv1777]

Cool. Now I can check out Friday night bands on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, then ride the Hwy. 17 express to Diridon, hop on the VTA 500, and be on BART before midnight. 😃 Oh, wait, not this summer... 😥

[@naturallyherb]

Really awesome!

[@jamesparson]

I would love to see a walkthrough from Milpitas BART to VTA's light rail station.

[@BayAreaTransitNews]

Thanks for the suggestion! We might get around to it.

[@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440]

Finally the Milpitas station near great mall for Dave n busters finally opened due to delays of getting the computer systems to work

[@syomiraa]

Outstanding video. :)

[@BayAreaTransitNews]

Thank you :)

[@akilahluna6484]

my son sis don and i going to san francisco this year

[@its-LuqmanVlogs]

The new berryessa station looks like the largo town center station in DC. And the milpitas station lookslike tye prince georges plaza station in DC as well.

[@mwmack8973]

I said the same exact thing....This new station gave me a DC feel ...

[@its-LuqmanVlogs]

@@mwmack8973 Legit BART and WMATA are one of my favorite systems

[@mrrobot5963]

@@its-LuqmanVlogs They operate the same way too. Bart and WMATA aren't really subways. They're really commuter rail-subway systems

[@roostercogburn4832]

Nice smooth ride compared to going north from Dublin station to San Francisco.

[@ohioweatherguy]

Nice video. Any videos out there showing what the transfer experience is like going from the BART Milpitas station to the VTA's Milpitas light rail station (or vice versa)? How long it takes? Signage/wayfinding?

[@regularuser]

Sadly though I moved out of cali before it opened , but thanks for this video it would be great if you do a detailed tour of both of these stations.

[@BayAreaTransitNews]

You're welcome! We have a pre-opening tour of these two stations right here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKmtk4aBZ7Z4f80

[@NoOne-cs7jm]

I live right across the st fro, here can't wait for covid 19 to go away to ride this thing. It came at the worst time .

[@gardenman3]

It would have been nice to see who the moving map on the side of the train works.

[@daleva187goligo]

how come nobody's going to san francisco? or even oakland? come on I wanna see those videos, enough with these short trips already

[@Rkwalker8]

Because of the lockdown. It will get better soon hopefully

[@randolphgarcia3494]

PS: MAY SEEM LIKE A SILLY QUESTION, BUT DO THESE BART TRAINS TRAVEL ALL THE WAY TO SAN FRANCISCO? I WOULD THINK SO. IF NOT, THEN i WOULD GUESS IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE. GUESS BART IS FOCUSING ON EXTENSIONS TO THE SOUTH BAY & CIRCLING THE ENTIRE BAY AREA EVENTUALLY. GOOD LUCK BART BOARD OF DIRECTORS. MAKE THOSE SOUTH BAY EXTENSIONS HAPPEN AS THEY WILL NEED TO VERY SOON.

[@BayAreaTransitNews]

Yes they do; the Green Line travels between Daly City and Berryessa.

[@halolno3757]

What camera did you use? This footage looks amazing!

[@BayAreaTransitNews]

Thank you! This was shot on an LG V40.

[@mossbrg5]

Love the new trains. Tracks are smooth allowing a comfortable fast ride. Who produced the train sets? Are they Buy America compliant?

[@BayAreaTransitNews]

They are manufactured by Bombardier, and they are Buy America compliant.

[@labellabric-ort9208]

De Oakland, horario para Milpitas fin de semana por favor ☺️ gracias👌🤓

[@BayAreaTransitNews]

Información sobre los horarios de BART se puede encontrar aquí: www.bart.gov/schedules/pdf

[@sriramdiyyala963]

quality entertainment

[@qb117]

That's a very fast train

[@Armando.Sepulveda]

I wonder why the Bart train isn't the first thing people think of San Francisco like the subway is the first thing people think of New York

[@TrainsFerriesFeet]

There are so many other parts to public transit in San Francisco, it isn't as focused as the Subway in New York.

[@bleepiestofbloops]

TV and movies just never mentions BART. They mention the cable cars, but that's about it.

[@danielcarroll3358]

There was a TV series about transit that concentrated on one city in each episode. When they came to San Francisco they started listing all the different modes: bus, trolley bus, light rail, streetcar, cable car, heavy rail, subway, ferry... well let's put it this way, it's a transit junkie's paradise.

[@starthomas3762]

How long does it take to get from berryessa to warm springs

[@angelpalomares1977]

Around 15 minutes

[@bleepiestofbloops]

Is there a reason for the snail's pace stop into Warm Springs? I hope that's not normal.

[@BayAreaTransitNews]

This wasn't the only train creeping into the station that day; we don't know why it's currently like that, and hopefully it doesn't last long.

[@19brittani]

Hate to own those homes near the tracks at the beginning of the video. I guess you would have to deal with the noise.... nice homes but...

[@spencerwilton5831]

brooks hill If the housing market There operates anything like the market here in London, the opening of a station within walking distance will have added fifty percent to the value of those houses overnight. I suspect the owners are more than happy!

[@middletransport]

I’m surprised BART/ VTA didn’t add sound barriers since the tracks are so close to the homes. They aren’t that expensive to install...

[@QuarioQuario54321]

Those stations are way too far apart.

[@BayAreaTransitNews]

A future infill station is planned at Calaveras when the City of Milpitas finds a way to fund it.

[@anthonyle3883]

@@BayAreaTransitNews I thought plans were dropped for that station since that area is developed with new housing.

[@user-pz2oe1jf2r]

バート！西園寺氏に乗って貰いたい、ベイエリアの新幹線？新快速？運転士レスの自動運転だが、なかなかの走りっぷりだ、海底トンネル内は130キロで突っ走る、私が乗った直後に入った新型の3ドア車か。

[@rmd743]

What's the Social Distancing heath safety measure inside BART train? Mo marks or sign on the seating area. People are literally inches close to each other. People are trying to protect themselves but inside the BART train is Russian Roulette. Please do something about BART!

[@nicksgarage8295]

whats the speed??

[@SamSam-nv3ll]

Nick's Garage can go Up to 70 mph

[@iannarita9816]

I remember back in the 1970's BART speeds up 80mph on a normal basis and could be pushed over 90mph.

[@kibashisiyoto6771]

@@iannarita9816 The problem was, those speeds burned up the traction motors, and they cut back to 72 mph in standard service. I don't know if they still go up to 80 mph if they get behind.

[@camanimations9500]

Wait was it today?

[@BayAreaTransitNews]

Yesterday (June 13) was opening day. Congrats on winning the Cup btw, from a Sharks fan.

[@camanimations9500]

Bay Area Transit News haha, I live about 15 min from the ws station, I’m planning on riding it

[@camanimations9500]

Bay Area Transit News and thx

[@hellojasonsuresh]

Clearly good news that this has been extended finally, but American transport design really leaves a lot to be desired. Berryessa station looks like it's come straight out of the 1970s and is awaiting modernisation!

[@TohaBgood2]

Strong disagree! BART has fantastic infrastructure. The system has its downsides, but the quality of the infrastructure isn't one of them. Unlike even some highly touted European and Asian systems, it's fully accessible, has elevators and escalators everywhere, is open and with lots of light and air. The trains have giant windows, are extremely spacious, have extremely comfortable seats, and allow one to move between the cars. Many of the "best" transit systems are often extremely claustrophobic, downright byzantine in terms of wayfinding, and dark and scary-looking. Again, not saying BART is perfect. They definitely need to get rid of the giant parking deserts next to the stations and build housing and commercial. The absolutely need to double the frequency and increase the speeds back to the old 80mph top speed. But bad infrastructure is just not a criticism that is applicable to BART. Even many brand new systems don't look and work this well!

[@fietsenOveral4650]

Noticed on Sunday they haven't quite got the digital maps updated yet, nor it seems the audio announcements. How quite and smooth this ride is highlights how underfunded and neglected the rest of BART system is (among most US systems). All of the noise, screeching, and roughness is the result of decades of deferred maintenance. US id parrots a self-fulfilling narrative of degraded transit.

[@denault3985]

Looks great, but how long before the trains have human excrement or graffiti?

[@danielcarroll3358]

Graffiti has never really been a problem. Remember this is a completely grade separated system with 2/3rds of it either in subway or elevated. Yes, you sometimes get the marking pen stuff on the insides but there are few places to let fly with spray paint and they are patrolled.

[@tankman_tv9332]

I’m sure youre over-exaggerating. I’ve rode BART for 5 years and NO human excrement was on the train. Old and new.