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San Jose, Calif. – The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is initiating the federal environmental process by preparing a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the BART to Silicon Valley Project. 

VTA has scheduled three public meetings in the cities of Milpitas, Santa Clara and San Jose to receive input on the project’s purpose and need, alternatives, environmental and community impacts to be evaluated and evaluation methodologies.  The input received will help define the environmental studies to be considered in the Draft EIS, expected to be released in summer 2008.   

The public is invited to visit project exhibits and discuss the project with staff during the Open House starting at 6:30 p.m.  A presentation will begin at 7 p.m. followed by an opportunity to enter formal comments into the public record.  The public meeting locations are as follows:

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Milpitas City Hall, Committee Meeting Room
455 East Calaveras Boulevard, Milpitas
This location is served by VTA Bus Line 47.

Thursday, October 11, 2007
San Jose City Hall, Wings 118-120
200 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose
This location is served by VTA Bus Lines 22, 23, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 81, 180, highway 17 Express, and VTA Light Rail.

Thursday, October 18, 2007
Santa Clara Senior Citizens Center, Room 232
1303 Fremont Street, Santa Clara
This location is served by VTA Bus Lines 32, 60 and 81.

For more information about the public meetings or the BART to Silicon Valley Project, contact VTA Community Outreach at (408) 321-7575, (TDD only) (408) 321-2330, or visit www.vta.org.

About BART to Silicon Valley
The BART to Silicon Valley Project is a 16.1-mile extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system from just south of the future BART Warm Springs Station in Fremont to the cities of Milpitas, San Jose and Santa Clara.  The alignment would include six stations plus one future station, a maintenance facility and vehicle storage yard, as well as a 5-mile tunnel segment through downtown San Jose.  The new extension is expected to add 104,000 average weekday boardings to the existing BART system by 2030.  Construction could begin as early as 2009 with service starting in 2016.

About the 2000 Measure A Program
The 2000 Measure A package of transit improvements was approved by Santa Clara County voters in November 2000 by a 70.3% majority and authorized a 30-year, 1/2 cent sales tax to begin in 2006.  Measure A supports the Valley Transportation Plan (VTP) and Expenditure Program, a long-range transportation planning effort focused on addressing the Valley’s transportation needs.  VTP provides a balanced transportation system consisting of transit, roadway, bicycle, and pedestrian
improvements.  The revenue from Measure A enables approximately $2 billion in future state and federal funds to be directed towards these projects. The Zero-Emission Bus Program is one of the 2000 Measure A projects.

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About VTA
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is an independent special district responsible for bus, light rail and paratransit operations; congestion management; specific highway improvement projects; and countywide transportation planning. As such, VTA is both an accessible transit provider and multi-modal transportation planning organization involved with transit, highways and roadways, bikeways and pedestrian facilities.

For more information about VTA services, call VTA Customer Service at (408) 321-2300, (408) 321-2330 (TDD only). Or, log on to www.vta.org.