More Evening Buses Serving West Valley College

by  • 

Attend or work at West Valley College in Saratoga? Good news if you take one of the bus lines to and from Winchester light rail station in Campbell. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) just added new evening service on the 37 Community Bus line between West Valley College and Winchester.

The added bus service, which runs every hour on weekdays only, is as follows:

Buses depart Winchester light rail station for West Valley College at 7:37pm, 8:39pm and 9:39pm, arriving at West Valley College about 14 minutes later.

Buses depart West Valley College at 7:11pm, 7:57pm, 8:58pm and 9:58pm, arriving at Winchester about 14 minutes later.

What do you think about the added evening bus service to and from West Valley College? Please discuss in the Comments section.

Eugene Bradley
Founder, Silicon Valley Transit Users

Some Questions On El Camino Real BRT Draft Docs

by  • 

The idea of having dedicated bus lanes or even bus queue jumping lanes along El Camino Real sounds great. This has raised some questions, however.

On January 14, I wrote a letter on behalf of our group to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) providing input on its Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for their El Camino Real Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project. Input for the letter was obtained from members on our Yahoo! Group email list.

Read more →

First VTA Board Meeting Of 2015 Tonight

by  • 

This evening, the very first Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) Board of Directors meeting of 2015 will take place.

Amongst the items the Board will vote on, according to their meeting agenda (Adobe PDF Document):

  • Initial remarks from Perry Woodward of Gilroy, who will chair the VTA Board this year
  • Approving or rejecting an initial study for a new parking structure at the Tamien Light Rail Station area
  • Approve or reject spending $11.7 million of your money on a construction contract to construct Phase II of the Mountain View Light Rail double-tracking program.

The meeting site is the County Supervisors’ Chambers at the County Government Offices 70 W. Hedding Street (at North First Street) in San Jose.  The County Government Offices are one block north of the Civic Center light rail station and the bus stop for VTA’s 61, 62, 66 and 181 express bus lines. Plan on driving to the VTA Board Meeting? There’s free on-street parking in front of and across Hedding Street from the County Government Offices, starting right at 5:30pm.

Want to speak at tonight’s VTA Board of Directors meeting? Here are some rules and procedures you need to follow to get your voice properly heard.

See you this evening!

Eugene Bradley
Founder, Silicon Valley Transit Users