The BART Board approved the name "Hayward" in December 1965.[3] A $1.21 million construction contract was awarded in June 1968.[4] The station opened on September 11, 1972.[5] Due to a national strike that year by elevator constructors, elevator construction on the early stations was delayed. Elevators at most of the initial stations, including Hayward, were completed in the months following the opening.[6][7]
AC Transit bus service began serving Hayward station when it opened.[8] On November 21, 1977,
SamTrans began operating service between Hayward station and
San Mateo via the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge.[9] It was discontinued in August 1999.[10] AC Transit resumed service over the bridge in March 2003, operating its route M between
Castro Valley and Hillsdale via Hayward.[11] The route was cut back from Castro Valley to Hayward in March 2010, and was suspended in 2020.[12][13][14]
A
transit-oriented development (TOD) project, which replaced the surface parking lots, was completed in 1998. It included a parking garage, townhomes, a new city hall, and a
Greyhound Lines bus station.[15][16]: 7 Seismic retrofitting of the parking garage took place in 2009–2010.[17] As of 2024[update], BART anticipates soliciting developer proposals by 2028 for additional TOD at the station.[16]: 16
Bus connections
An AC Transit bus at Hayward station
Hayward station is a major bus hub for
AC Transit, served by
Transbay route M; local routes 10, 28, 34, 41, 56, 60, 83, 86, 93, 94, 95, and 99; and
All Nighter route 801.
SamTrans Transbay buses served the station until mid-1999.[20]
References
^Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area (1st ed.). Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith. pp. 501–502.
ISBN978-1-58685-432-4.
OCLC85623396.