We’ve learned the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) seeks ideas from YOU on the future of transportation in Santa Clara County. Starting TONIGHT at 6pm online, is the first of several meetings VTA is holding to help plan public transit (as well as walking, biking, paratransit and highway projects) for Santa Clara County’s future.
Tag: San Jose
November Board Meeting Fun
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Here’s a quick preview of key items tonight’s Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) Board of Directors’ meeting at 5:30pm.
- Item 5.2 – General Manager’s Report. Good place to bring up why VTA has provided no public notice to why there have been missing bus and light rail
- Item 7.3 – VTA staff discuss proposals to help speed up light rail thru downtown San Jose
- Item 7.4 – VTA staff discusses the future of light rail in Santa Clara County. Item possibly includes talk on what new light rail cars might look like.
Here’s how YOU can get involved by speaking after and only after VTA Staff and Board members discuss these Items:
Let’s follow-up more on this issue exclusively on Agenda Item 5.2 at the November 3 VTA Board Of Directors’ meeting at 5:30pm. Here’s how YOU can get involved:
Zoom meeting link- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85914427437.
The meeting will be streamed through the VTA YouTube Channel.
You may also call into the meeting as follows:
Zoom one-tap via smartphone:
US: +16692192599,,85914427437#
or
+16699009128,,85914427437#
Via telephone dial: US : +1 669 219 2599 or +1 669 900 9128
Webinar ID: 859 1442 7437
See you all at tonight’s Board meeting.
Eugene Bradley
Founder & CEO, Silicon Valley Transit Users
Some VTA Buses Couldn’t Take the Heat
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September 6 featured record high temperatures in Santa Clara County. One result of this, we learned, was that the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) had to take 40 buses out of service that day. This was covered in the Mercury News (via East Bay Times) and CBS Bay Area.
Below highlights what was learned directly from VTA on what else happened that hot dayIt’s deeper than what has been reported in the press on this matter. Read and learn for more details.
Silicon Oven
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This week, temperatures in San Jose and the rest of the Bay Area are at record highs.
The extreme heat is expected to continue for several more days.
To address this, we’ve learned that the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is providing FREE rides to Cooling Centers throughout Santa Clara County. Here’s an updated list, as of today.
If you use VTA ACCESS Paratransit, call (408)321-2380 to book a trip to a Cooling Center. Due to demand, expect at least a three-hour wait before you can be picked up.
Rail agencies like BART, Caltrain, and Capitol Corridor ran with heat-related speed restrictions so far this week. This has resulted in delays up to 20 minutes on each of these systems. Expect this to be the case the rest of this week.
Locally, VTA has had issues system-wide due to heat causing breakdowns so far this week.
If at all possible, limit when you go outside for the next few days. Let’s not hear about you having to go to the hospital due to dehydration, heat exhaustion, heat stroke – or worse.
Still need to travel outside this hot week? Follow @svtransitupdts on Twitter to keep up with the latest local (Santa Clara County) public transit updates. Here’s steps showing YOU can help keep the svtransitupdts Twitter feed updated.
In the mean time, please stay safe, cool, and hydrated this week.
Eugene Bradley
Founder & CEO, Silicon Valley Transit Users.
Labor Day Weekend 2022 Transit Guide
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On behalf of the Silicon Valley Transit Users, I want to wish you a Happy (and safe) Labor Day Weekend.
Temperatures in Santa Clara County are expected to reach or exceed 100 degrees this weekend. To address this, we’ve learned that the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) will provide FREE transit service to cooling centers throughout Santa Clara County. Some independently-operated cooling centers not affiliated with government will also be open on Labor Day; here’s a list of these cooling centers.
For VTA ACCESS Paratransit riders, please call (408)321-2380 to book a trip to a cooling center. Due to expected demand, please allow at least three (3) hours for pickup.
If you are going out on this hot, long weekend, we have transit guides to some sporting events in Palo Alto and San Jose.
Note that start times to these games may change due to the extreme heat in the area this weekend. Look and listen for news reports on whether or not your game has been delayed or even cancelled due to the heat this weekend.
Read on for more details.