Fremont | |||||||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||||||
Location | 2000 Bart Way Fremont, California | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°33′27″N 121°58′36″W / 37.557489°N 121.97662°W | ||||||||||||||
Line(s) | BART A-Line | ||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Connections | AC Transit: U, 99, 200, 212, 215, 216, 217, 232, 239, 251, 707, 801 Marguerite: AE-F, EB | ||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
Parking | 2,030 spaces | ||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 76 lockers | ||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
Architect | Kitchen & Hunt[1] | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
Opened | September 11, 1972 | ||||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||||
2024 | 1,920 (weekday average)[2] | ||||||||||||||
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Fremont station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in the central district of Fremont, California. The station is served by the Orange and Green lines. It was the southern terminus of both lines from September 11, 1972, until March 25, 2017, when Warm Springs/South Fremont station opened.
The BART Board approved the name "Fremont" in December 1965.[3] Service at the station began on September 11, 1972.[4] Due to a national strike that year by elevator constructors, elevator construction on the early stations was delayed. Elevators at most of the initial stations, including Fremont, were completed in the months following the opening.[5][6]
During the first months of revenue service, the Automatic Train Control (ATC) system had safety problems with its design and operation. On October 2, 1972, an ATC failure caused a train to run off the end of the elevated track at the Fremont station and crash to the ground - an incident dubbed the "Fremont Flyer". Four people on board were injured.[7] The incident drew national and international attention, followed a month later by release of the "Post Report" on BART safety by the legislative analyst for the California State Senate.[8][7] The "Fremont Flyer" train crash led to a comprehensive redesign of the automatic train control system, the firing of the general manager,[9] and the replacement of the board of directors.[10][11][12]
Fremont station was not initially served by connecting buses.[13] The Santa Clara County Transit District – later Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) – bus service began operating Fremont station—San Jose service on June 25, 1973, connecting BART with the South Bay transit system.[14] AC Transit service was expanded to Fremont in November 1974, and to Newark that December, with Fremont station as a hub.[15][16]
Fremont was the southern terminus of East Bay BART service until March 25, 2017, when the line was extended to Warm Springs/South Fremont station.[17] On December 28, 2019. VTA discontinued service to Fremont station as part of a systemwide network modification, which was originally intended be simultaneous with the opening of the BART extension to Berryessa/North San Jose station.[18][19] However, the BART extension did not open until June 13, 2020, leaving Warm Springs/South Fremont as the only connecting point between the two systems until that time.[19]
A three-lane bus plaza on the east side of Fremont station is a transfer hub for AC Transit buses:[20]
Two Stanford Marguerite Shuttle routes, AE-F and East Bay Express, also terminate at Fremont.[20]