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79-671: 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 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,

158-569: 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

237-533: 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, the SCCTD approved an affirmative action plan for

316-534: A letter to National City Lines on 8 December 1955, the company's vice president, Kenneth E. Totten, traveled to Montgomery the following week. The boycott lasted for just over a year, and cost the company $ 750,000 (equivalent to $ 8.4 million in 2023). The boycott ended only after the United States Supreme Court affirmed Browder v. Gayle , a ruling that black bus passengers had a right to sit in any publicly available seat. National City Lines acquired

395-460: 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,

474-479: 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

553-460: A single bore in 2018. The design decision was postponed for three months; in March, BART and VTA reached agreement on a single bore. The $ 125 million contract for engineering the single bore tunnel was awarded to a joint venture bid placed by London -based Mott MacDonald and San Francisco-based PGH Wong Engineering. Initial construction and soil sampling began in January 2019. In September, it

632-681: A single station to cut costs. The line would continue underground to the San Jose Diridon station , a transfer point to Amtrak, Caltrain, Altamont Corridor Express , VTA light rail and bus, and the planned California High-Speed Rail system. The proposed BART subway station would be named "Diridon" to match. The extension would then surface and continue to the site of the current Santa Clara Caltrain Station . A 40-acre (16 ha) BART maintenance yard would also be created at Newhall as part of this phase, using land just south of Santa Clara station that

711-694: 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

790-527: A surface station in Santa Clara . Initial testing and preliminary construction activities began in January 2019. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) built the Berryessa Extension and intends to build the final downtown San Jose extension, but BART operates and maintains the completed portion of the extension and will also do so for the final phase when completed. Santa Clara County

869-435: 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

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948-563: A tunnel to cross the Bayshore Freeway before continuing to a 28th Street/Little Portugal station on the city's "east side". From there, the tunnel would continue west under Santa Clara Street to a Downtown San Jose subway station , which would be an interchange station to VTA light rail lines on the surface at Santa Clara . The original proposal had additional subway stations between Alum Rock and Downtown at Civic Plaza / SJSU and Plaza de César Chávez , but these were consolidated into

1027-501: 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

1106-694: Is an ongoing effort to expand the Green and Orange Line service by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) into Santa Clara County via the East Bay from its former terminus at the Fremont station in Alameda County . Planned since at least 1981, the project has seven stations in three sequential phases. The first phase, known as the Warm Springs Extension, was built by BART at a cost of $ 790 million, terminating at

1185-550: 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

1264-1360: 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

1343-720: The Great American streetcar scandal (or 'General Motors streetcar conspiracy', 'National City Lines conspiracy'). In 1948, the United States Supreme Court (in United States v. National City Lines Inc. ) permitted a change in venue to the Federal District Court in Northern Illinois . National City Lines merged with Pacific City Lines the same year. In 1949, General Motors, Standard Oil of California, Firestone and others were convicted of conspiring to monopolize

1422-603: The Montgomery Advertiser on December 3, 1955, Montgomery's Transportation Superintendent J. H. Bagley wrote: The Montgomery City Lines is sorry if anyone expects us to be exempt from any state or city law ... [w]e are sorry that the colored people blame us for any state or city ordinance which we didn't have passed." After Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Improvement Association wired

1501-603: 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

1580-576: 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

1659-413: 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

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1738-427: 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

1817-501: 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

1896-457: 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

1975-457: 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 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

2054-525: 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

2133-475: The BART Silicon Valley extension. The 2008 Measure B sales tax took effect in July 2012. The economy worsened in 2009, and the 2000 sales tax was projected to generate $ 7 billion—short of the originally expected $ 11 billion. As a consequence, the number of planned stations was reduced. In addition, the line from Berryessa to downtown San Jose was delayed until 2026, pushed back from 2025. VTA awarded $ 770 million to Skanska-Shimmick-Herzog in 2011 for

2212-549: 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 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

2291-639: The California Cap and Trade program. In 2018, VTA was awarded $ 2.6 billion for the project from the state's Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program funded by the 2017 gas tax bill. In August 2019, the VTA received $ 125 million from the FTA under a new accelerated funding program. $ 140 million was included in the version of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 passed by the House of Representatives, but

2370-554: The Fitzgerald brothers' bus operations, founded in Minnesota , United States, in 1920 as a modest local transport company operating two buses. Part of the Fitzgerald's operations were reorganized into a holding company in 1936, and later expanded about 1938 with equity funding from General Motors , Firestone Tire , Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum for the express purpose of acquiring local transit systems throughout

2449-612: 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 ,

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2528-573: 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

2607-502: The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors placed a half-cent general sales tax increase for unspecified transportation projects along with other county services. It was advocated by supporters of the BART Silicon Valley extension and labor groups. The measure would have funded improvements to local hospitals, clinics, and transportation. On June 6, 2006, voters defeated the measure by a margin of 58% to 42%. In December 2006,

2686-592: 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 the Guadalupe line on December 11, 1987. With

2765-516: The United States in what became known as the General Motors streetcar conspiracy . The company formed a subsidiary, Pacific City Lines in 1937 to purchase streetcar systems in the western United States . National City Lines, and Pacific City Lines were indicted in 1947 on charges of conspiring to acquire control of a number of transit companies, and of forming a transportation monopoly for

2844-436: The VTA board authorized $ 135 million in contract amendments to continue engineering work and environmental clearance on the extension, with a proposal to bring a tax increase to operate the BART extension in 2008. By a two-thirds majority, Santa Clara County voters approved Measure B in November 2008, implementing a 30-year, 1/8-cent local sales tax dedicated solely to funding the operating and maintenance costs associated with

2923-643: 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

3002-633: 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

3081-457: 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 the time, critics referred to the buses as "rolling propane bombs." On March 6, 1976, Santa Clara County voters approved

3160-528: The city secures funding. Milpitas Station connects to VTA's Milpitas light rail station (formerly known as Montague station) near the Great Mall of the Bay Area via a pedestrian bridge. Originally the entire Silicon Valley Extension from Fremont to Santa Clara was proposed as one megaproject, but lower than expected federal funding and sales tax revenue eliminated some stations from the original project and caused

3239-682: The company obtained equity funding from companies seeking to increase sales of commercial buses and supplies, including General Motors , Firestone Tire , Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum . In 1936, they bought 13 transit companies in Illinois , Oklahoma and Michigan , then in 1937, they replaced streetcars in Butte, Montana and made purchases in Mississippi and Texas . Sometimes these systems were already run down, but not always. Major investment had recently been made with improvements to

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3318-477: The construction of the Market Street subway as evidence. The single-bore design is newer, but less tested in the United States. However, BART preferred dual bores, as used elsewhere in its system, to cut construction cost and standardize the procedure for emergency evacuations. The twin bores would each be 20 feet (6.1 m) wide, and separated horizontally. Local businesses, cities and VTA were lobbying for

3397-546: 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

3476-404: The division into two phases. Phase 1 extends to Berryessa, and Phase 2 will extend through downtown San Jose to Santa Clara. The Phase 1 scope was set by what VTA could afford. A local industrial park sued in 2011, without success, on environmental grounds claiming that the extension would reduce vehicular access. The project saw numerous delays, and completion was pushed back many times from

3555-431: 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

3634-536: The first phase of the Berryessa Extension ( Milpitas and Berryessa/North San Jose Stations ), and the federal government granted $ 900 million for the project in 2012. Construction began the same year. It was scheduled to open in 2016. For phase II, VTA sought funding from the federal New Starts program in 2016. A half-cent 30-year sales tax passed in the 2016 elections , to raise $ 6.0 to $ 6.5 billion with up to 25% of this (or $ 1.6 billion) for BART. VTA also sought $ 1.5 billion from New Starts, and $ 750 million from

3713-507: 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),

3792-777: 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

3871-576: 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 the Almaden spur line . On January 1, 1995,

3950-533: The larger metropolitan areas in various parts of the country in 1943 merged with NCL in 1946. By 1947 the company owned or controlled 46 systems in 45 cities in 16 states. In 1947 National City Lines, with others was indicted in the Federal District Court of Southern California on two counts: ' conspiring to acquire control of a number of transit companies, forming a transportation monopolize ' and 'Conspiring to monopolize sales of buses and supplies to companies owned by National City Lines' in what became known as

4029-462: The many sources detailing the cities in which, at one time or another, National City Lines owned or controlled transit companies. A star (*) indicates that NCL is understood to have had significant control but not ownership: Additional information: In Los Angeles the Los Angeles Railway (Yellow Cars) was controlled by NCL but not Pacific Electric Railway (Red Cars) Montgomery City Lines

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4108-418: The new Warm Springs/South Fremont station . Construction began in 2009, and the extension and new station opened in 2017. The $ 2.3-billion second phase, known as BART Silicon Valley Phase I or the Berryessa Extension, includes two new stations, Milpitas and Berryessa/North San José . Construction began in 2012, and the extension and its two new stations were inaugurated on June 12, 2020, while service for

4187-519: 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 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

4266-434: The originally-planned 2016. Milpitas and Berryessa/North San José stations opened on June 13, 2020. The final Downtown San Jose/Santa Clara leg has been planned through downtown San Jose to Santa Clara at an estimated cost of $ 6.8 billion. This third phase, 6 miles (9.7 km) long, is largely underground, featuring a 5-mile-long (8.0 km) tunnel. It would continue south from Berryessa, entering

4345-411: The public began on the next day. Many credited the former Mayor of San Jose, Ron Gonzales , with bringing this project to fruition. The $ 12.2-billion third phase to downtown San Jose, known as BART Silicon Valley Phase II, remains unfunded. Targeted for completion in 2036, it would add three new subway stations south of Berryessa: 28th Street/Little Portugal , Downtown San José , Diridon , and

4424-602: The purpose of "conspiring to monopolize sales of buses and supplies to companies owned by National City Lines." They were acquitted on the first charge and convicted on the second in 1949. The company has roots back to 1920, when E. Roy Fitzgerald and his brother began operating two buses in Minnesota , transporting miners and schoolchildren. In 1936 the company was organized into a holding company. In 1938, National City Lines wished to purchase transportation systems in cities "where street cars were no longer practicable" and replace them with passenger buses . To fund this expansion

4503-648: 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

4582-559: 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

4661-1047: The sale of buses and related products to local transit companies controlled by NCL and other companies; they were acquitted of conspiring to monopolize the ownership of these companies. The verdicts were upheld on appeal in 1951. The corporations involved were fined $ 5000, their executives $ 1 apiece. There is considerable uncertainty and variability amongst sources as to where National City Lines operated. The 1948 ruling stated that: "Forty-four cities in sixteen states are included. The states are as widely scattered as California, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Texas and Washington. The larger local transportation systems include those of Baltimore, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Oakland. The largest concentrations of smaller systems are in Illinois, with eleven cities; California with nine (excluding Los Angeles); and Michigan with four. The local operating companies were not named as parties defendant." This table attempts to bring together

4740-479: 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

4819-582: The streetcars systems in Beaumont, Texas . The Butte system, while sound, deliberately replaced to lower the load on the overtaxed electric system, which was primarily used for commercial uses, including electrolytic refining of copper and zinc. In 1938 the company entered into exclusive dealing arrangements and obtained equity funding from companies seeking to increase sales of commercial buses and supplies, including General Motors , Firestone Tire , Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum . The company

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4898-466: The trucking company Los Angeles-Seattle Motor Express (LASME) in 1959. In 1968, LASME merged with DC International and T.I.M.E. to form T.I.M.E.-DC . National City Lines sold its transportation management division in 1978. National City Lines was later acquired by Harold C. Simmons early in 1981. T.I.M.E.-DC ceased operations in 1988. The company continued as a fully controlled subsidiary of Simmon' Contran operation until December 31, 2007, when it

4977-511: The tunnel should have a single bore or dual bores. VTA favored a single 45-foot-wide (14 m) bore, configured as a double-deck stack, with one track on the upper level and one on the lower level. VTA preferred a single bore to shorten the construction schedule and avoid cut and cover construction in Santa Clara Street for station sites. City officials believed cut and cover construction would be disruptive to streets and businesses, citing

5056-430: 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,

5135-549: 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

5214-417: Was $ 890 million, but the cost of the subway segment under Lake Elizabeth was reduced by 45% from the original estimate of $ 249 million to $ 136 million, bringing the total cost to $ 790 million. The Warm Springs/South Fremont station opened on March 25, 2017. The extension broke ground in 2009, and was originally scheduled for completion in 2014. Construction of the station began in 2011, and

5293-550: Was announced that the project would be delayed three to four years, with revenue service to begin in 2029–2030. On October 15, 2021, VTA announced that it would award construction contracts for this phase's stations in summer 2022. In May 2022, the first major contract for the Downtown San Jose/Santa Clara extension was awarded to Kiewit Shea Traylor Joint Venture , a joint venture between Kiewit Corporation , J.F. Shea Co and Traylor Brothers, Inc . KSTJV will bore

5372-542: 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,

5451-424: Was dissolved. Walter C. Lindley (January 3, 1951). "UNITED STATES v. NATIONAL CITY LINES, Inc., et al" . United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit . Archived from the original on 2008-06-08 . Retrieved 2009-04-05 . Silicon Valley BART extension The Silicon Valley BART extension (officially VTA's BART Silicon Valley Extension Program , commonly known as BART Silicon Valley )

5530-497: Was dropped in the Senate. In August 2024, the FTA made a commitment to grant $ 5 billion for Phase II. VTA will apply for a Full Funding Grant Agreement from the FTA after covering existing funding gaps. The project is broken into three phases. The 5.4-mile-long (8.7 km) extension to Warm Springs was constructed by BART south from the existing Fremont station (opened in 1972) to the new Warm Springs/South Fremont station; revenue service began in March 2017. The original estimate

5609-450: Was expected to take three and a half years. However, the opening was delayed repeatedly, and ultimately pushed back to spring 2017. The Berryessa Extension extends south from the Warm Springs/South Fremont station. The 10-mile-long (16 km) Berryessa extension to north San Jose encompasses the Milpitas station and the Berryessa station . A proposed infill station at Calaveras Boulevard in downtown Milpitas has been deferred until

5688-709: Was indicted in 1947 and was later convicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois of conspiring to monopolize the sale of buses and related products to the local transit companies that they controlled. Over 1938 and 1939 the company made purchases in Alabama , Indiana and Ohio . and by 1939, it owned or controlled 29 local transportation companies in 27 different cities in 10 states. American City Lines, which had been organized to acquire local transportation systems in

5767-463: Was originally planned to be part of the BART system, but local governments did not approve. Minor service at Palo Alto near San Mateo County had also been planned originally. In 2000, Santa Clara County voters approved a 30-year half-cent sales tax increase to fund BART, which took effect in April 2006. To make up for a shortfall in projected federal funding, an increase in the sales tax by 0.125 percent

5846-435: 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

5925-434: Was proposed if additional federal funding were secured. In the process of obtaining the federal funding necessary to build the BART extension, the Federal Transit Administration issued a "Not Recommended" rating in January 2004. The FTA was concerned about the ability of VTA to operate BART and other bus services at the same time. VTA continued to design BART and prepare the required environmental documents . In 2006,

6004-494: Was purchased by VTA from Union Pacific. Like the Berryessa Extension, it would be built by VTA, but operated by BART. After funding was secured for Berryessa (the first phase of the Silicon Valley Extension) in March 2012, VTA began looking for additional funding to complete the $ 6.8 billion second phase. Completion is expected in 2029–2030. In late 2017, a disagreement arose between VTA and BART over whether

6083-573: 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: National City Lines National City Lines, Inc. ( NCL ) was a public transportation company. The company grew out of

6162-569: 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

6241-526: Was the National City Lines subsidiary that operated the municipal transit system for Montgomery, Alabama . On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a Montgomery City Lines bus. This led to the Montgomery bus boycott . Montgomery City Lines was placed in the middle of a dispute between Montgomery's black citizenry and Montgomery city laws. In a letter published in

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