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StreetSmart 5: Silicon Valley Transit Advocate Monica Mallon Chronicles the VTA Strike
Episode 4 of the StreetSmart podcast features Monica Mallon and a discussion of the VTA strike in Silicon Valley. If you’re not familiar with Mallon, she is a one-person advocacy machine focused on transit in the Bay Area Peninsula, specifically the VTA. When bus drivers and rail operators were on strike Mallon documented the various […]
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April 4, 2025
The State of the Transit Strike in Silicon Valley on Its Tenth Day
The ATU wants higher wages and worker protections. The VTA is appealing to the courts. 100,000 transit riders are caught in the middle.
March 19, 2025
State Legislation Would Reshape VTA Board
New legislation would shake up the VTA board. But would service actually improve?
March 2, 2021
VTA: No, We Won’t Cut Train Service to Move More Cars at Levi’s Stadium
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.
September 18, 2014
Bike-Share Coming to SF and Silicon Valley This July
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.
February 2, 2012
MTC Grant Will Fund Expanded Regional Bike Share Program
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 Area meant to reduce driving and curb emissions.
October 27, 2010
Santa Clara VTA Proceeds with Bay Area’s First Bike Share Pilot Program
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 Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). While small size may still be a liability to its success and long term funding sources must be determined, the VTA is miles ahead of other transit operators in completing the process necessary to deliver a pilot.
November 10, 2009
Will San Jose’s New Bicycle Plan Mark Shift From Years of Car Privilege?
San Jose is on the verge of adopting its new bicycle plan at the next City Council meeting on November 17th, which, as anyone who has cycled in San Jose knows, would be a welcome change from decades of traffic engineering focused almost solely on automobility.
November 9, 2009
San Jose Provides Model for Bay Area Growth and Transportation Needs
In our ongoing coverage of the adverse affects of traffic engineers' over-reliance on automobile level of service (LOS) measurements, we've examined how new amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) would allow local jurisdictions greater freedom in choosing whether they want to develop their cities for cars or for transit, cycling, and livable streets. Simply put, if the CEQA amendments are codified, cities all over the state could become more like San Jose.
October 30, 2009