OPAC Consulting Engineers

BART Dublin/Pleasanton Extension


Dublin-Pleasanton, California

Client:

Bay Area Transit Consultants/Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Paul Medved
Principal Engineer
BART
300 Lakeside Drive, 17th Fl.
Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: 510-287-4750
email: pmedved@bart.gov

Date:

Construction completed 1998

Scope of work:

Design Review & Construction Support

Construction cost:

US$ 514,000,000

Services Performed:

  • Structural design review
  • Coordination with Caltrans
  • Technical support during construction

Issues:

  • Design of transit structures
  • Technical support during construction
  • Structural design review and coordination

The $514 million, 14 mile Dublin-Pleasanton BART extension was part of the first-phase $2.5 billion capital expansion program of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District. The Dublin-Pleasanton extension includes twelve cast-in-place, prestressed concrete box girder bridge; three precast, prestressed concrete bridges; two reinforced concrete bridges; one steel box girder bridge; one steel plate girder bridge; one cut-and-cover tunnel; and three planned stations. Due to budget constraints, only two stations, the Castro Valley Station and the East Dublin-Pleasanton Station, were built. This extension branches off from the existing Bayfair BART station in Hayward and occupies the median of I-580.

  • Vivian Chang, current OPAC principal, served as Lead Structural Engineer while at Bay Area Transit Consultants (General Engineering Consultant to BART) and performed structural design review and structural design, coordinated with Caltrans and provided technical support during the construction phase.