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Hearings for FY 2026 and 2027 Proposed Budget

VTA will hold a public hearing and committee presentations for the Fiscal Years 2026 and 2027 Proposed Budget.

VTA staff presented a Proposed Budget to the VTA Board of Directors at the April 25th...

County of Santa Clara Employees, Your SCVMC Shuttle has arrived!

Your SCVMC shuttle is a weekday service from the Diridon Station to Valley Medical Center at Bascom. The features of this service include:

Coordinated schedule with ACE, Amtrak and Caltrain...

Sustainability

VTA values sustainability as part of its core mission. Building on this legacy of sustainability efforts and actions, VTA issued a Sustainability Charter for the BART to Silicon Valley Phase II...

Design Development Framework (DDF) for Downtown San José BART Station Block

VTA created a Design Development Framework (DDF) for the Downtown San José BART station block intended to guide transit-oriented development (TOD) decision-making for the block. TOD increases transit...

Capitol Station Transit-Oriented Development

The Capitol Station is a 10.1 – acre property located at Capitol Expressway and Narvaez Ave in San Jose, California. This property currently serves as a Park & Ride lot for VTA Light Rail and Bus...

Gilroy Transit Center Transit-Oriented Development

The Gilroy Transit Center is a 7.8-acre property located at Monterey Highway and 7th Street in Gilroy, California. This property currently serves as a Park & Ride lot for Caltrain and VTA Bus...

State Route (SR) 152 New Trade Corridor Project

Santa Clara and San Benito counties are working together to develop and deliver infrastructure improvements to the SR 152 Trade Corridor from US 101 to I-5. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation...

Bus Stop Balancing - Stop Closures

VTA's Bus Stop Balancing program identifies stops that are too close together and balances bus stops based on VTA’s Transit Service Guidelines. Stops that are too close together cause unnecessary...

VTAlerts - See Something, Say Something

Safety and security are very important at VTA, and we continually strive to find easy-to-use tools and technologies to make our transit system safe for all passengers.

We know that you are...

Transit Security and Safety

Senate Bill (SB) 434 by Senator David Min (D-Irvine) was signed into law in 2023 and requires the state’s ten largest transit agencies, including the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority...

Express Bus Partnership Program

VTA Approved a New Partnership Model for Express Bus Routes

On February 6, 2020, the VTA Board of Directors adopted the Express Bus Partnership Program. As part of the 2019 New Transit Service...

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SR 237 Westbound On-Ramp At Middlefield Road

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), in cooperation with the City of Mountain View and the Department of Transportation (Caltrans), proposes to construct improvements at Middlefield...

We need the community's feedback!

Construction is not scheduled to start until 2022, but the planning efforts are well underway to ensure that the community can let us know about their traffic...

June 14, 2021 Service Changes

The following service changes will take effect on Monday, June 14, 2021

New Route

VTA will operate a new weekday peak hour shuttle route...

VTAplus Information Page

How to Access VTAplus

VTAplus can be accessed in the top righthand corner of any webpage on VTA.org.

How to Create a VTAplus Account

1. In order to create a VTAplus account, please click on the...

VTA’s Visionary Network – A Blueprint for Aspirational Transit Service in Santa Clara County

What does the ultimate transit network in Santa Clara County look like to you? More frequent buses and...

Community Design and Transportation (CDT)

The Community Design and Transportation Manual (CDT) is designed to inspire new thinking about the form and function of growth, broaden and strengthen the range of transportation choices, and make the...

Photo of taller tan residential building with trees in front on a sunny day. There are vehicles parked on either side of the street in front of the building — River Oaks Park, San José, CA (Source: Flickr - Christiano Tomas)

Graphic of different types of white buildings next to each other with space between the entrances and the sidewalk highlighted in blue — Public and Commercial Building Setbacks

Graphic of white residential building with the landscaping space between the building and the sidewalk highlighted in blue with a callout box — Residential Building Setbacks

Photo of two men walking under an awning for an entrance of a building with trees on the side — Market Street, San José, CA (Source: Flickr - Sergio Ruiz)

Place building entrances to support pedestrian access and establish pedestrian connections between buildings to surrounding streets, transit stops, and bike and auto parking areas. Place entrances to...

Graphic of larger white buildings with the corner building highlighted in blue with callouts — Building Massing

Photo of a taller brown and blue building — The Pierce - San José, CA

Photo of people standing and walking in front of one- to three-story buildings made from shipping containers — Downtown Container Park - Las Vegas, NV (Source: Flickr: SPUR - Sergio Ruiz)

Place windows and doors to invite and animate. Placement of a building’s entrance(s) is critical to the building’s relationship to the street.

Provide main building entries on public streets or...

Development Projects

Put density where it belongs: land use programs should reflect the context of transportation investment.

Direct and encourage density and development to cores, transit-rich areas and corridors, pri...

Graphic showing a cross section of a street surrounded by white buildings with sidewalks, vehicle lanes, transit, and bike lanes highlighted and with callouts — Multi-Modal Boulevard

Photo of a multi-lane roadway with cars parked on one side and a bicyclist in the bike lane and a green car in a travel lane — Sloat Boulevard, San Francisco, CA (Source: Flickr - Sergio Ruiz)

Photo from above many tall buildings looking down a roadway that splits partway through with red bus only lanes on one side and a pedestrian plaza in the center — Lathum Square, Oakland, CA (Source: Flickr - Sergio Ruiz)

Vary cross-sections along the length of the corridor to support adjoining uses. In response to heavy pedestrian and transit use in busy core areas, traffic lanes may be narrowed, and sidewalks...