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Silicon Valley BART extension

This extension will bring BART south from Warm Springs to Berryessa station, with an intermediate Milpitas station (originally to be called "Montague Station") located adjacent to, and connected by bridge to, the VTA's Montague light rail station near the Great Mall of the Bay Area and the Great Mall/Main Transit Center.


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Rod Diridon, Sr.

In 1976, he chaired the campaign for the first successful half-cent sales tax for a transit district in California, has subsequently come to be known as "the father of VTA light rail," and is presently the executive director of the Mineta Transportation Institute.