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Yesterday, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) board approved a two-year, $299 million contract with Warm Springs Constructors of Fairfield, Calif., to design and install track and construct the Warm Springs BART Station near the Alameda-Santa Clara County line.

The 5.4-mile Warm Springs extension is part of a larger plan to extend BART to the Silicon Valley, which will help alleviate heavy commuter traffic along the area’s interstate system, BART officials said in a prepared statement.

The $299 million contract award is the second of two major contracts for the $890 million project. BART awarded the first contract — a $140 million deal to build the Fremont Central Park subway — in July 2009. The subway work now is halfway completed.

Construction on the extension is slated to begin in 2012; the Warm Springs station is scheduled to open in 2015.