After a three years' delay, BART's Warm Springs station is opening March 25, according to officials. After a series of delays and setbacks that pushed back the opening of BART's brand-new Warm Springs/South Fremont station nearly three years, BART announced the inaugural day for revenue service to be March 25, 2017. The announcement was made public on March 10 via a news article on BART’s website and a YouTube video uploaded by BART. Warm Springs station is part of BART's Phase 1 extension to San Jose, and extends the system 5.4 miles south of existing Fremont station, the current terminal for BART's Orange and Green lines. The new station is located in Fremont's Warm Springs district near the intersection of South Grimmer Blvd and Warm Springs Blvd. Initially intended to open in mid-2014, the station was plagued with testing failures and breakdowns that set its opening date back nearly three years. This was partly due to the extreme polarization between Warm Springs' modernized technology and the rest of BART system's aging infrastructure, which led to several setbacks during the station's lengthy testing process. The station is just the starting point for BART's master plan to extend the system to San Jose city limits within next year.
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