Montague Station Profile

Capitol Avenue just south of Montague Expressway 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. 

• 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 include 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.

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 Valleys 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.

Shelter canopy glass
by Deborah Mersky

These glass panels provide a vivid organic patterned skylight.  The large-scale imagery hangs above the passengers like an unfolding constellation.  The imagery depicts an array of fruit and flowers commonly found in local household gardens.  The specific examples were chosen to represent the four corners of the world as well as native California plants.  Strings of seeds and knotted thread are also visible.  The uniform color of the carved glass and its low contrast background make the images very visible, but subtle.

VTA Route 59. 

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