History
Service at the station began on May 10, 1997. It was originally intended to be called the East Dublin/Pleasanton station, and was at one time shown as so on maps, to differentiate it from the planned West Dublin/Pleasanton station. However, the West Dublin/Pleasanton station did not actually open until 2011, and the "East" designator is not commonly used; station signage and route maps use the shorter name.
The station features a "wave" design motif, most notably in the titanium canopy roof over the passenger platform, which has a silhouette of five curves intended to both echo the shape of the nearby hills in Dublin and "represent the sound waves generated by BART's electric propulsion."
An adjacent transit-oriented development on the Dublin side of the station finished construction in 2006. The development includes housing, retail, and a new BART parking garage.
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