Vasco Road station

Vasco
Vasco Road station in May 2023.
General information
Location	575 South Vasco Road Livermore, California
Coordinates	37°41′48.85″N 121°43′6.7″W
Line(s)	UP Oakland Subdivision[1]
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Construction
Parking	free
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	Amtrak: VAS
History
Opened	October 19, 1998[2]
Services
Preceding station Altamont Corridor Express Following station Livermore toward San Jose San Jose – Stockton Tracy toward Stockton
Location

Vasco Road station (signed as Vasco) is an ACE station on Vasco Road in eastern Livermore, California. The station mainly serves the workers of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory and the surrounding industrial and office parks in eastern Livermore in addition to commuters from Livermore headed to job centers in the Silicon Valley to the southwest.

BART approved an alignment for its Livermore extension to run along Interstate 580 then tunnel underneath Isabel Avenue to the Livermore ACE station and then continue along the right-of-way to Vasco Road to serve as its final terminal. However, in July 2011, the Livermore City Council reversed its position in response to a petition requesting that the alignment stay within or nearby the Interstate 580 right-of-way, and now favors stations be built at the Interstate 580 interchanges with Isabel Avenue and Greenville Road.^[3] The BART extension was later replaced with the Valley Link proposal, again along the I-580 alignment.

References

1. SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 12.
2. "History of ACE". San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority.
3. Courtney, Jennifer (12 July 2011). "City Council OKs Initiative to Keep BART on I-580". Livermore Patch. Retrieved 8 January 2013.

External links

Media related to Vasco Road station at Wikimedia Commons

• ACE Vasco Road Station