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Santa Clara (VTA)
Santa Clara station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) located in the Historic District of Downtown San Jose, California on 1st and 2nd Streets just south of Santa Clara Street. The northbound platform is on 1st Street; the southbound platform is on 2nd Street. The platforms are connected via a pedestrian paseo called Fountain Alley. This station is served by the Blue and Green lines of the VTA Light Rail system. Santa Clara station is a major transit transfer point in the VTA system. Downtown San José station, a proposed underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station, is planned to be co-located with the existing VTA station. History VTA closed the station for refurbishment from January to May 2007 to allow level boarding at all doors, thus making the station fully wheelchair accessible. Santa Clara station is planned as a future transfer point between BART (in the second, unfunded phase of an extension from Fremont) and VTA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fountain Alley
Fountain Alley is a pedestrian paseo in Downtown San Jose. History Fountain Alley's origins lie in the 19th century as a thin but prominent alley made up of mews and a horse trough, which gave it its name. The Bank of Italy Building, San Jose's oldest skyscraper, was built on the alley in 1925. Fountain Alley lost its urban importance in the late 20th century, when it became notable as a crime hotspot. Since the 2010s, the alley has been the site of an ongoing revitalization program, which has ended the area's crime streak and introduced public events, like tailgates and pop-ups. Location Fountain Alley is located in central Downtown San Jose. It spans between 1st Street and 2nd Street. The Santa Clara Street station on the VTA light rail is located on either side of Fountain Alley. It is within walking distance of the future Downtown San José station of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). See also *Paseo de San Antonio The Paseo de San Antonio is a pedestrian pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Line (VTA)
The Blue Line is a light rail line in Santa Clara County, California, and part of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail system. It serves 26 stations entirely in the city of San Jose traveling between Baypointe and Santa Teresa stations, stopping at San Jose International Airport (via a bus connection), Downtown San Jose, San Jose State University, and the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose along the way. The line connects to Caltrain at Tamien. The Blue Line is one of three lines in the VTA Light Rail system; the other two being the Green Line and the Orange Line. Route description From north to south, the Blue Line starts at Baypointe station in North San Jose, travels south on First Street, through downtown San Jose, until reaching the San Jose Convention Center where the line enters the median of State Route 87 (the Guadalupe Freeway), until it approaches the interchange with State Route 85, where it briefly exits the median to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
