Santa Clara (VTA)

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For the town within the VTA's district, see Santa Clara, California. For the mainline rail station, see Santa Clara (Caltrain/ACE station).

Santa Clara is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). Santa Clara station is served by both the Alum Rock-Santa Teresa and Mountain View-Winchester light rail lines.

Santa Clara station is a major transit transfer point in the VTA system. 16 VTA bus routes, along with Highway 17 Express bus from Santa Cruz, connect with light rail at this station.

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[edit] Location

Santa Clara station is located in 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 walkway named Fountain Alley.

[edit] Refurbishment project

Santa Clara station is one of the few remaining stations in the system that is not fully wheelchair accessible. The level of the platform is approximately fourteen inches lower than the floor of the light rail vehicle. A temporary wooden ramp was erected to allow wheelchair users to board and deboard via the forward-most door of the forward-most car of the light rail train.[1]

VTA closed this station for refurbishment in early 2007 to make the station fully wheelchair accessible. Santa Clara is the last of the downtown stations to be renovated for level boarding at all doors. Work is scheduled to finish in late spring 2007. [2]

[edit] Adjacent Stations

Previous station   VTA Light Rail   Next station
toward Alum Rock
   Alum Rock - Santa Teresa  
  Mountain View - Winchester  
toward Winchester

[edit] Nearby points of interest

[edit] References

  1. ^ Richards, Gary (Feb. 17, 2006). VTA light rail project prompts station closings. San Jose Mercury News.
  2. ^ Ibid.
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