I-880/Milpitas Station Profile

East Tasman Drive at Alder Drive in Milpitas

• Large passenger shelters with gabled metal shelter canopies.  The shelters, designed to protect passengers from heat, rain and wind, also include an information kiosk, pay phone, ticket vending machine and seating, including both leaning rails and benches. 

• Park & Ride Lot with 280 spaces.

• Additional benches outside of the canopies.

• Ample landscaping including trees and shrubs.  The edges of the planter boxes also provide additional seating.

• Distinctively designed lighting that ensures that stations are well lit at nighttime.

• Digital message boards signs that indicate the time and provide information on light rail service.

• A unique color scheme for the station furniture and shelters selected by the City of Milpitas.

• Safety features including railing along platform edges adjacent to the street and outside of passenger boarding areas along the track, as well as a tactile warning band along the platform edge.

Camera Obscura
by Ellen Sollod

"Camera Obscura" replicates a darkened room and is a metaphor for our experience of progress: the world often feels upside down as we encounter new things.  By placing one's eye on the sculptures eyepiece, light is obscured.  The viewer observes the scene ahead, but muted and upside down.  The image viewed through the eyepiece changes as traffic passes, as the train enters the station, and as the mountains turn from green to brown.  This piece allows the viewer to slow down to experience the day with a different perspective.

Cabinet of Invention and Obsolescence Sculpture
by Ellen Sollod

"Cabinet of Invention and Obsolescence" is based on the premise that all new inventions replace something that previously was viewed as the latest and greatest device for accomplishing a specific task.  This handcrafted bronze sculpture with unique patinas incorporates objects that are now considered obsolete inventions.  Objects illuminated from above by natural light can be seen through peepholes. As the sun moves, different aspects of the interior will be illuminated.  The cabinet is an assemblage of sealed similarly sized and shaped boxes, each with different finishes.

Entry Railings 
by John Okulick

The panels are a blend of broadband shapes and narrow wire that weave together.  The weave, like the weave of a basket, refers to the harvest or the Valley's agricultural past, and also suggests the pattern of a circuit board or computer chip that has become the new harvest.  The winding lines, like winding country roads, have been replaced with a network of grids with dots, like stops on the transit system.  The dots also refer to seeds, a metaphor for growth.

VTA Routes 33, 140, 33, and ACE Shuttle.

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