Milpitas Community Based Transportation Plan (CBTP)

Help Us Improve Transportation in Milpitas!
Fill out a Feedback Form!

For example:

• Making bus routes and schedules more reliable
• Making streets and intersections safer
• Improving access to jobs, shopping and community facilities
• Adding bicycle or walking paths

Study Area Map
(Study Area Map text version)

Study Objective and Approach

The Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), along with the City of Milpitas and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, is working together with you and others in the community to develop a Community Based Transportation Plan (CBTP). The resulting Milpitas CBTP will help the VTA and community identify future transportation improvements.

Bus Service Proposal

Through input received from Milpitas residents at outreach events, through suggestion boxes placed around town and focus groups, VTA staff heard some of the following concerns regarding bus service in Milpitas:

• High cost of fares and passes
• Lack of adequate east-west service
• Inconvenient connections to shopping area at McCarthy Ranch
• Need for direct service between north Milpitas  and Fremont/BART

The first map below shows existing bus service in Milpitas. The second map, titled July 2010 Proposal, suggests new routings for the Local 47 and the Express 180 that responds to community concerns. Some highlights from the proposal:

• Both the new 47 and the unchanged 46 would be converted to Community Bus, allowing for a reduced fare of $1.25.
• Community Buses are smaller, distinctively branded vehicles that can operate in areas restricted to conventional 40-foot buses. Standard buses will still be used for school bell times when they are needed most.
• A service change requiring Community Bus would not be possible before January 2011, when fueling facilities are installed at VTA’s nearby bus yard serving Milpitas.   A July 2010 service change is possible using standard VTA 40-foot buses until January 2011.
• Combine Lines 33 and 47 into one new Community Bus 47 providing an east-west transit connection thru Milpitas.
• The new 47 routing would operate on Calaveras Boulevard and serve McCarthy Ranch, Serra Center, the new Milpitas Library, future Valley Medical Center, City Hall, Town Center, future Senior Center (August 2010) and the Great Mall. 
• Subject to an analysis of fare revenue, convert Express 180 to a limited stop route adding stops in Milpitas  on Jacklin at Escuela and on Main Street at the Library.

Stay involved!
Please send your input on the proposal to VTA staff.

Tell us what you think

VTA wants to know what you think! Help us improve transportation in Milpitas by completing a feedback form and returning it to drop-off boxes located inside the Milpitas Library or City Hall. You may also return the form via US Mail.

Please return it no later than May 31, 2009.

For more information

For more information about this study, to attend a focus group meeting, or if you would like a project representative to visit your organization, please contact Aiko Cuenco, Transportation Planner, at 408-321-5684 or aiko.cuenco@vta.org

Para más información acerca de este estudio, o para registrarse para una junta de enfoque en grupo, por favor comuníquese con el departamento para Ayuda al Pasajero (408) 321-2300 o correo electronico customer.service@vta.org  

Muoán coù theâm thoâng tin veà nghieân cöùu naøy, hoaëc ghi danh cho nhoùm hoäi thaûo, xin lieân laïc VTA Customer Service (408) 321-2300 or e-mail customer.service@vta.org