State Legislation Would Reshape VTA Board
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New legislation would shake up the VTA board. But would service actually improve?
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VTA: No, We Won’t Cut Train Service to Move More Cars at Levi’s Stadium
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Santa Clara County’s Valley Transportation Authority says it does not plan to reduce light-rail service in order to move more cars at Levi’s Stadium during the post-game traffic crunch. “Transit is not the problem; transit is a solution,” the agency wrote in a blog post yesterday, countering a report from the San Jose Mercury News on Monday. […]
Bike-Share Coming to SF and Silicon Valley This July
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San Francisco and four cities in Silicon Valley will launch the region’s first bike-share system this July, implementing a new transportation option that cities around the world have embraced to expand access to bicycling. The system will include 500 bicycles at approximately 50 stations in downtown San Francisco, plus another 500 bikes and 50 stations […]
VTA’s Vision for Bus Rapid Transit on El Camino Real
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A new video from the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) lays out the vision for transforming El Camino Real into a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor connecting the Palo Alto Transit Center and Downtown San Jose. It’s part of VTA’s Valley Rapid project, a set of three BRT routes planned in Santa Clara County. The El […]
MTC Grant Will Fund Expanded Regional Bike Share Program
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Getting to work or school in the Bay Area by shared bicycle could be a reality soon, as the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the Bay Area’s regional transportation planning body, awarded more than $4 million to a regional bike share program as part of $33 million for a host of innovative projects around the Bay […]
Santa Clara VTA Proceeds with Bay Area’s First Bike Share Pilot Program
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Despite the much ballyhooed talk by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom that his city will implement a public bike share pilot (two years of talk that has garnered numerous press hits), the first bike share program in the Bay Area will likely be implemented by the middle of 2010 in Santa Clara County by the […]