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Downtown San Jose Light Rail Realignment
Project Overview
The maximum speed of the VTA light rail is up to 55 mph, but VTA achieves this on only a few select portions of its system. Due to the urban landscape and various conditions, the...
Hostetter Station Transit-Oriented Development
The Hostetter Station site is a 2.3-acre property located on Capitol Avenue, near Hostetter Road in San José, California. This property currently serves as a Park & Ride lot for VTA Light Rail...
River Oaks Station Transit-Oriented Development
The River Oaks Station site is an 18-acre property located at the corner of North First Street and River Oaks Parkway in North San José, California. This property currently serves as VTA’s...
Light Rail Rehab
2025 Planned Light Rail Rehabilitation Efforts Winding Down
To rehabilitate its aging infrastructure, VTA scheduled several light rail shutdowns throughout 2025. The shutdowns focused on repairing...
Bascom Complete Streets: I-880 to Hamilton Avenue Project
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), in partnership with the City of San Jose, the City of Campbell, and the County of Santa Clara, is looking at ways to improve approximately three...
VTA Procurement Procedures
Standard of Conduct and Personal Conflict of Interest Policy
It is the policy of VTA that all employees involved in the procurement process conduct themselves in accordance with the highest ethical...
Transit-Oriented Development
VTA's Transit-Oriented Development Program creates mixed-use, mixed-income developments on VTA land through partnerships with nonprofits, private developers, and public sector agencies. VTA remains...
I-280 Soundwalls Project
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), in cooperation with the City of San Jose and the Department of Transportation (Caltrans), will construct soundwalls on I-280 between State Route...
Local Measures Revenues
Local measures revenues to fund financing and escalation costs. Financing costs assumed to available from 2000 Measure A and/or 2016 Measure B.
Private Funding
Private entities such as landowners, developers and companies contribute funding for some projects.
1996 Measure B
In November 1996, Santa Clara County voters approved a landmark nine-year, half-cent sales tax to fund improvements to county roads, highways, bicycle and pedestrian pathways, and rail networks.
Th...
Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement (CMAQ) Program
Administered by Federal Highway Administration, the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program supports surface transportation projects and other related efforts that contribute air...
Safe Routes to Transit Program of Regional Measure 2
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Regional Measure 2, referred to as RM2, provided $22.5 to establish the Safe Routes to Transit grant program to fund projects specifically designed to help...
Transportation Fund for Clean Air - Bay Area Air Quality Management District
The Transportation Fund for Clean Air includes funding awarded through the nine Bay Area counties as well as directly by the Bay Area Air Quality Management Air District for projects that reduce on...
Light Rail Speed and Safety Enhancements
The Speed and Safety Improvements are part of a program identified in VTA’s Light Rail Systems Analysis and Efficiency Study (2010).
The Light Rail Speed and Safety Enhancements study has reviewed...
Complete Streets Program
City of San Jose
The City of San Jose is one of VTA’s member agencies and contributes funding to support certain projects.
Federal Transit Administration’s Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development Planning Grant
The Federal Transit Administration's Pilot Program for TOD Planning provides funding to local communities to integrate land use and transportation planning with a new fixed guideway or core capacity...