This station is the southern of the two stations built as part of an extension from Warm Springs/South Fremont. The extension, known as Phase I of the
Silicon Valley BART extension, broke ground in 2012 with completion initially expected in 2016 but delayed several times. VTA received a $900 million grant for federal funding for the $2.3-billion Silicon Valley Extension in 2012. Additional funding was provided by Measure B, a half-cent sales tax passed by Santa Clara County voters in 2016; the
Road Repair and Accountability Act, passed by the California Legislature in 2017; and $125 million from the
Federal Transit Administration in 2019 under a fast-track funding program. In 2017, at the request of the
San Jose City Council, the station was renamed from Berryessa to "Berryessa/North San José" to "alert riders – commuters and tourists alike – that they have arrived in the Capital of the Silicon Valley". On June 11, 2020, a group of Silicon Valley politicians proposed to have the station officially renamed as the "Ron Gonzales Berryessa Station" after
Ron Gonzales, former mayor of San Jose, who began advocating for a Silicon Valley BART extension in 1989 while serving as a Santa Clara County Supervisor. BART station naming guidelines would likely discourage such a renaming. An official ribbon cutting for the BART station was held on June 12, 2020. Berryessa/North San José and Milpitas stations opened for revenue service on June 13, 2020. == References ==