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46-545: The Eastridge Transit Center is a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) bus terminal located at the Eastridge Mall in the Evergreen District of San Jose, California . The station is located alongside Capitol Expressway near Tully Road. The following bus routes operate from Eastridge: The VTA light rail Orange Line is planned to be extended to Eastridge from its current terminus at

92-574: A Santa Clara County Grand Jury criticized the governance structure, calling it "too large, too political, too dependent on staff, too inexperienced in some cases, and too removed from the financial and operational performance of VTA." Since VTA board members are required to be elected officials, they must juggle their other duties in addition to VTA. The Grand Jury recommended that the VTA board be shrunk to five to seven members, with members either appointed solely for transportation issues or directly elected by

138-466: A light rail or tram system, instead of bus service). This would also upgrade the existing 522 bus service to an official BRT, and rename the entire VTA-operated BRT service to VTA Rapid, differentiating it from VTA's buses division. This plan involved reducing general traffic lanes from 3 lanes in each direction which was unpopular and the plans were abandoned in January 2018. An additional rapid line,

184-570: A local public transit system. The formation of the Santa Clara County Transit District was rejected in 1969 and 1970 before it was finally approved by county voters on June 6, 1972. The SCCTD took over the operations of the three old bus companies on January 1, 1973. On September 26, 1974, the county Board of Supervisors dissolved the Public Works Department. Non-transit operations went into

230-527: A new General Services Agency, while transit operations were placed into a new Santa Clara County Transportation Agency. Under the terms of the SCCTD Act, the five-member Board of Supervisors also served as the Board of Supervisors for the new transit district. They would be advised by a commission consisting of members appointed by the cities (one member appointed by each city in the county) and five members of

276-487: A number of bus lines, and paratransit service. VTA is a member agency of Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board that manages Caltrain commuter rail, providing one-third of annual operating funds and all the funding for specific improvement projects within Santa Clara County. VTA is also a member agency of Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority that manages Capitol Corridor intercity rail service. The VTA

322-721: A solution "at significantly lower costs than traditional transit projects." Sometimes, in the winter, VTA operates a seasonal vintage trolley service called the Holly Trolley . This trolley, a joint project of the VTA and the California Trolley and Railroad Corporation , began operations in December 2012. As of December 2019, it operates between Civic Center and Convention Center stations, although it operated to San Jose Diridon station until 2018. The VTA headquarters and administration offices are next to

368-435: A temporary rapid bus service until VTA officially opens a BRT transit corridor along the same route, which will upgrade the current 522 route. VTA had planned to add distinctive vehicles, separate bus-exclusive lanes on Alum Rock Avenue, El Camino Real, and Stevens Creek Boulevard, ticketing platforms separate from other buses, and possible amenities such as wait time for successive BRT buses by 2016 (making BRT behave more like

414-513: A two-thirds majority vote. A lawsuit was filed in January 2017 by Cheriel Jensen to challenge the validity of the measure. It was initially dismissed with prejudice in July 2017, but an appeal was subsequently filed in August 2017 to the 6th District Court of Appeal. Pending a resolution, the funds collected by taxes introduced by 2016 Measure B were held in an escrow account. The appeals court upheld

460-576: A variety of iron oxide red . The color was then modified by treatment with an alizarin lake pigment . The pigment's stability lent itself to hard use in applications such as rail cars, steam pipes, radiators, and machinery. Lower-cost imitations were made without iron oxides by using gypsum or whiting as a base and adding aniline dyes. The traditional color Tuscan red is shown above. The lighter tones of Tuscan red tend toward tan and beige. The darker tones of Tuscan red tend toward purplish tones. These purplish tones of Tuscan red are exemplified by

506-719: Is also a Prismacolor colored pencil. The first recorded use of Tuscan red as a color name in English was in the early 1800s (exact date uncertain). The color was popular in the late 19th century but non-standardized. It became the ‘signature color’ of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which instituted specifications for its formulation. Before the 1880s, pigments extracted from Brazil wood were used in its manufacture, but these proved inadequate in terms of hiding power and stability. A 1917 US National Bureau of Standards circular describes it as based on Indian red ,

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552-567: Is approximately 13% and the Authority is focused on increasing the ratio. VTA contemplated service reductions in 2003 to address its budget problems. Instead, VTA changed routes to respond to customer demands and by 2008 saw increased ridership numbers. In keeping with 2000 Measure A, VTA needed additional funding to deliver the 6-mile-long (9.7 km) second phase of the BART Silicon Valley extension to Santa Clara, including

598-1387: Is responsible for building the Silicon Valley BART extension but is not a member of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District . As VTA covers Santa Clara County in general, it serves the major core city of San Jose (where VTA is based and headquartered), with service to the other municipalities of Campbell , Cupertino , Fremont , Gilroy , Los Altos , Los Altos Hills , Los Gatos , Milpitas , Monte Sereno , Morgan Hill , Mountain View , Palo Alto , Santa Clara , San Martin , Saratoga and Sunnyvale . Only Campbell, Milpitas, Mountain View, San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale are served by light rail. The VTA partners with Highway 17 Express to provide service to Santa Cruz and with Dumbarton Express to provide transbay service between Union City and Stanford University . VTA operates 43 regularly operating bus routes as of January 2022 , including 39 regular bus routes and 4 rapid bus routes. Many of these routes connect to VTA light rail service, and Caltrain stations. In addition, VTA operates 4 express routes, 8 school trip services, 8 free shuttle routes connecting to ACE commuter rail services, and one commuter shuttle to

644-473: Is the color Tuscan tan . The first recorded use of Tuscan tan as a color name in English was in 1926. The normalized color coordinates for Tuscan tan are identical to café au lait and French beige , which were first recorded as color names in English in 1839 and 1927, respectively. Displayed at right is the color Tuscan brown . The first recorded use of Tuscan brown as a color name in English

690-745: The Almaden spur line . On January 1, 1995, the SCCTD merged with the county Congestion Management Agency to become the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (SCVTA). In December 1996, the agency adopted a shorter trade name, Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), as well as a new logo. In 1996, voters approved a half-cent general county sales tax, Measure B, and a companion list of transportation projects recommended to be funded with Measure B, called (1996) Measure A . The two measures were designed to adhere to

736-969: The Alum Rock Transit Center , as part of the Eastridge to BART Regional Connector Project . This new extension would offer rail connection to the Milpitas Transit Center and the Mountain View Transit Center , providing access to Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Caltrain . A groundbreaking was held on June 8, 2024. Construction is expected to be completed in 2028 with revenue service beginning in 2029. Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority In 1969, Santa Clara County had three private bus companies, all of which were in serious financial trouble: Peninsula Transit, San Jose City Lines , and Peerless Stages. The California Legislature enacted

782-617: The River Oaks light rail station on North First Street in San Jose. There are four yards, three of which (Cerone, Chaboya, and North) are used for bus storage, with maintenance conducted at Cerone; the other (Guadalupe Yard) is the maintenance and storage facility for the light rail division. Besides providing transit services to residents of Santa Clara County, VTA also manages countywide highway projects that use county sales tax revenues, in conjunction with Caltrans . In this role, VTA

828-591: The San Jose International Airport (SJC), a distance of approximately 3 miles (4.8 km). Potential SJC airport connector alignments include either an underground route following existing streets, or an aerial route partially along State Route 87 . The RFI also asked potential bidders to design a continuation to De Anza College along Stevens Creek Boulevard . One major goal of the RFI was to determine if new technologies could be used to deliver

874-468: The Silicon Valley BART extension , which will eventually extend Bay Area Rapid Transit from its original terminus in Fremont to Santa Clara Transit Center . 2000 Measure A also included funding for light rail extensions, bus service expansion, expansion and electrification of Caltrain service, and connections from San Jose International Airport to BART , Caltrain and VTA light rail. The measure

920-428: The 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 . MV Transportation , a for-profit agency, has been the contract paratransit broker for VTA since November 2016, after the previous broker, Outreach & Escort, was found to be overbilling the agency for its VTA Outreach service. VTA released a request for information in July 2019 to solicit concepts for a grade-separated system that would connect Diridon Station with

966-512: The 5-mile-long (8.0 km) subway tunnel through downtown San Jose. Measure B, added to the November 2016 ballot, would raise $ 6.3 billion for transit projects via a half-cent increase in sales tax. It included up to $ 1.6 billion for the BART extension, as well as funds for Caltrain electrification, grade separation, and road improvements. Voters passed the 2016 Measure B, which required

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1012-464: The 568, along the current route 68 is proposed to replace the current 168 express as part of the 2021 Service Plan. This plan was delayed until February 2022 to direct resources to reducing passenger pass-ups due to capacity limits during the COVID-19 pandemic . VTA Access is the agency's paratransit service, a door-to-door shuttle service available to disabled people that meets the requirements of

1058-542: The BART Silicon Valley extension to the Berryessa/North San José station , ceding operations to the Bay Area Rapid Transit District . In April 2021, the VTA suffered a ransomware attack that disabled many of the agency's computer systems, including the paratransit reservation tracker. On May 26, 2021, a mass shooting occurred at a VTA rail yard in San Jose, California . Ten people, including

1104-643: The General Manager and Chief Executive Officer (GM/CEO). General Counsel Evelynn Tran served as the interim GM/CEO while the agency searched for a permanent replacement for Nuria I. Fernandez , who was appointed Deputy Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration in January 2021. Carolyn Gonot, who had served in multiple leadership roles at VTA before leaving in 2019 to head the Utah Transit Authority ,

1150-598: The Guadalupe line on December 11, 1987. With the introduction of light rail service, the transit district replaced its traditional blue and orange color scheme with blue and burgundy across the system, to better match the Tuscan red on the new light rail stations. Expansion of the single line continued in sections until 1991 when the starter system was completed to Santa Teresa station in South San Jose including

1196-561: The SCCTD approved an affirmative action plan for the Transportation Agency to improve the diversity of its workforce. On March 25, 1987, after a long legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court by a 6-3 majority upheld the gender component of the plan against a civil rights challenge in Johnson v. Transportation Agency . The transit district broke ground on a new light rail system in 1986. It commenced revenue service along

1242-671: The Santa Clara County Transit District Act in 1969, which allowed the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to place a ballot measure asking county voters if the Santa Clara County Transit District (SCCTD) shall be formed. However, the Act did not supply any funding from the state level for the new district; SCCTD would be funded as required by issuing bonds. At the time, county voters were reluctant to raise their own taxes to support

1288-659: The VTA's busiest corridor. Modeled after the Metro Rapid service in Los Angeles , rapid bus Line 522 follows most of the Line 22 route, and features limited stops, headway based schedules, low floor fleet, and signal priority along El Camino Real. However, the current rapid bus service by VTA does not fully qualify as BRT, due to the lack of separate ticketing stations and platforms, distinctive vehicles, and special lanes which allow BRT to avoid traffic jams. Rather, it serves as

1334-661: The Valley Medical Center VTA's longest and most-used bus route is the 22, which connects VTA's Eastridge Transit Center in East San Jose with the Caltrain station in Palo Alto , which serves as a transfer point for SamTrans buses from San Mateo County . Line 22, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic , was the only line with 24-hour, 7 days-per-week service, including night bus service as part of

1380-426: The color deep Tuscan red , shown below. Displayed at right is the color Tuscan . The first recorded use of Tuscan as a color name in English was in 1887. The color Tuscany is displayed at right. The first recorded use of Tuscany as a color name in English was in 1922. The source of this color is the " Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #16-1219 TPX—Tuscany. Displayed at right

1426-568: The dismissal, and on January 23, 2019, the California Supreme Court refused to hear the final appeal. In January 2020, climate activists pushed the VTA to reallocate Measure B funds away from road projects and into more transit improvements, but were voted down at the San Jose City Council , which controls a majority of the VTA's board. On June 13, 2020, VTA opened the first 10-mile-long (16 km) phase of

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1472-434: The eighteen members, fifteen are drawn from city councils and three are county supervisors; twelve are voting members and six are alternates. Five of the fifteen board members from city councils are from San Jose, which has led to criticism that the board is too heavily weighted towards one city. Under the original proposal to form VTA in 1994, a sixteen-member board was proposed: five members directly elected, one each from

1518-527: The five County Supervisorial Districts; and eleven appointed from elected bodies (city councils or the county board of supervisors). The implementing legislation changed this structure to a nineteen-member board: twelve voting members, five alternates, and up to two ex-officio members, who serve as VTA's representatives to the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission . For the first ten years (1995–2004),

1564-798: The gunman, were killed during the shooting, making it the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the San Francisco Bay Area . Starting from January 1, 1995, the Santa Clara VTA special district is governed by a board of directors with 12 voting members composed of political leaders at the city and county level, including the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors , San Jose City Council , and other cities including Campbell , Cupertino , Fremont , Gilroy , Los Altos , Los Altos Hills , Los Gatos , Milpitas , Monte Sereno , Morgan Hill , Mountain View , Palo Alto , Santa Clara , San Martin , Saratoga , and Sunnyvale . Of

1610-655: The public appointed by the county supervisors. SCCTD administration would be led by an executive officer. In its early years the Santa Clara County Transportation District approached the task of replacing the bus fleet it inherited from its predecessors, which was in need of upgrades and repair. At first the district bought propane -fueled Twin Coaches and Gillig/Neoplans. SCCTD switched to an all-diesel fleet after six buses went up in flames between December 1977 and April 1978. At

1656-649: The regional All-Nighter Network . Line 22's fleet of coaches primarily consists of articulated low floorbuses . On January 14, 2008, VTA implemented major updates in its bus service. Some routes became part of a community bus network that utilizes shorter buses and charges a cheaper fee than standard bus service. Others became part of a core network with headways of 15 minutes or less. Additionally, some bus routes underwent changes in routing, while other, less-used routes were deleted completely. The agency completed another bus service redesign on December 28, 2019. On July 5, 2005, VTA implemented its first rapid bus line along

1702-582: The rule in the California State Constitution that requires a two-thirds supermajority to pass any special purpose sales tax, but only a majority vote to pass a general sales tax. The measure was challenged, but in 1998, the California Supreme Court ruled that the two measure system was valid. The tax was to be collected for ten years. In 2000, voters approved a 30-year extension of the 1996 sales tax to fund

1748-490: The southern cities (one member from Santa Clara, Campbell, Cupertino, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, San Martin or Gilroy). Instead of the current structure, which appoints Board members from elected officials, under Berman's proposed bill, the Board members would be appointed from the public and serve four-year terms. AB 1091 faced significant opposition from the San Jose City Council and

1794-564: The time, critics referred to the buses as "rolling propane bombs." On March 6, 1976, Santa Clara County voters approved a half-cent sales tax, Measure A, to help support the Santa Clara County Transit District. In 1977, the primary Overhaul and Repair Facility was built at the Cerone Yard. Also in 1977, County Supervisors decided to change the bus fleet from propane to diesel and ordered 102 buses. By 1979, three additional bus yards were built and commissioned into service. In December 1978,

1840-436: The twelve voting members were selected as: Each Board of Directors member serves a two-year term. For the non-rotating members (San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and County Supervisor), each member may serve multiple terms. From 2004 to 2009, the Board had similar requirements with five San Jose City Councilmembers and two County Supervisors; the five non-San Jose city-level Board members were selected as: In June 2004,

1886-561: The voters. Grand juries in 2009 and 2019 have echoed similar complaints. Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) introduced AB 1091 on February 18, 2021, which would reduce the size of the board to nine members, of which five would be appointed by the County Supervisors, two would be from San Jose, and two would be from the remaining cities, split between the northern cities (one member from Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Sunnyvale, or Milpitas) and

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1932-558: Was appointed the General Manager and CEO in May 2021, and began serving in July. VTA also serves as the Congestion Management Agency for Santa Clara County. In this role VTA makes decisions on what local projects can utilize federal and state funding, and manage sales tax revenue that is specified for VTA usages, such as 1987 Measure A and 2000 Measure A sales tax measures. VTA operates three light rail lines,

1978-436: Was placed on the ballot by the VTA and did not include funding specifically for highway projects. The measure passed with 70% of the vote. Revenues from the sales tax would not begin being collected until April 2006. After 2000, due to the dot-com bust , existing revenue sources declined and VTA was forced to cut service and increase fares. VTA introduced a series of fare increases between 1998 and 2005. VTA's farebox recovery

2024-524: Was responsible for several highway projects such as widening portions of US 101 between San Jose and Morgan Hill , and Interstate 880 within Santa Clara County. VTA will also be the leading agency in SR 152 / SR 156 interchange and future widening projects. Other transit in the United States: Tuscan red This is an accepted version of this page Tuscan red is a shade of red that

2070-583: Was tabled in May. Berman followed up by re-introducing the VTA Board reform bill as AB 2181 on February 15, 2022. AB 2181 passed the Assembly on a 69–2 vote in May, with Assemblymembers Ash Kalra and Mark Stone opposed. Current and former VTA Board members criticized AB 2181 as not sufficiently ensuring representation from smaller cities and not addressing the root causes of VTA's low ridership. Operations and management at VTA are led by

2116-797: Was used on some railroad cars , particularly passenger cars . The color is most closely associated with the Pennsylvania Railroad , which used it on passenger cars and on its TrucTrain flatcars . It also was used extensively by the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia, in a similar fashion to the PRR. The Norfolk and Western Railway used it as an accent color on its J class steam locomotives. The Canadian Pacific Railway used it historically and painted its luxury revival cars in this color. It

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