Highway 17 Express

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The Highway 17 Express is a thruway bus service provided by a consortium of entities which provides regional service between San José and Santa Cruz County in the South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The bus service is a consolidation of corridor based commuter service between Santa Cruz and more limited service beyond to Soquel along the State Route 17 communities of the Santa Cruz Mountains including Scotts Valley, Redwood Estates, Summit, and Pasatiempo with job centers in the Silicon Valley. This is combined with feeder and delivery service for several Amtrak California lines which serve Diridon Station a regional intermodal hub from where passengers may transfer to VTA buses or light rail in addition to ACE, Capitol Corridor and Caltrains and also many regional Amtrak routes. During commute hours service extends beyond the hub with direct service to Downtown San José, at other times passengers may take free shuttles connecting Diridon with downtown.

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The service is financed, operated, and benefits Amtrak, VTA, and Santa Cruz Metro, using buses from the latter two agencies.

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v • d • e San Francisco Bay Area Public Transit

Rail	Altamont Commuter Express Stockton-San José • BART^{(AirBART, Transbay Tube)} East Bay-Peninsula • California Zephyr Bay Area-Chicago • Caltrain SF-San José• Capitol Corridor ^{Sacramento-San José} • East Bay Electric Lines† • Key System† • Coast Starlight Seattle-L.A. • E&SR†Richmond • San Joaquins Oakland-Bakersfield • Muni Metro Market Street Subway & Cable cars San Francisco • NVRR Napa • NCRy Sunol† • NPC West Marin† • Berkeley Branch Railroad† • Ocean Shore Railroad western peninsula coast† • SMART(Marina, Sonoma) • VTA light rail Silicon Valley

Ferry	Blue & Gold Fleet • Alameda / Oakland Ferry • Baylink Ferry Vallejo • Alameda Harbor Bay Ferry Bay Farm Island• Angel Island - Tiburon Ferry • Golden Gate Ferry Larkspur/Sausalito • Richmond Ferry • All ferries feed into San Francisco

Bus	AC Transit Western Alameda/Contra Costa Counties • AirTrain SFO • All Nighter • The Duck American Canyon • Benicia Breeze • BEAR Transit UC Berkeley • Burlingame Shuttle • Calistoga Handy Van Calistoga • Cloverdale Transit • County Connection Central Contra Costa County • Dumbarton Express • Emery-Go-Round • Fairfield/Suisun Transit • Golden Gate Transit Marin/Sonoma Counties • Healdsburg In-City Transit • Highway 17 Express • Lake Transit Lake County • Manteca Transit • Mendocino Transit Authority • MAX Modesto • Monterey-Salinas Transit Monterey County • Muni San Francisco • Petaluma Transit • Rio Vista Delta Breeze • RT Sacramento County • SamTrans San Mateo County • San Benito Transit San Benito County • SMART San Joaquin County • Santa Cruz Metro Santa Cruz County • Santa Rosa CityBus • Solano Express North Bay • Sonoma Transit Sonoma County • Tri-Delta Transit Eastern Contra Costa County • UniTrans Davis • Union City Transit • Vacaville City Coach • Vallejo Transit/Baylink • VINE Napa County • WestCAT Western Contra Costa County • Marin Transit Western Marin County • WHEELS Southeastern Alameda County • VTA Santa Clara County • Yolo Transit Yolo County

Entities	Organizations and programs: All Nighter • Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board • Water Emergency Transportation Authority • Spare the Air • TransLink • MTC

Places	Important transit places: King S • 12th S • 19th S • Balboa Pk. S • Bayfair S • Dntn. Berkeley S • Centerville S • Civic Ctr. S • Concord S • Convent'n Ctr. S • Daly City S • Diridon S • Dublin S • del Norte S • Embarcadero S • Emeryville S • Ferry Bldg. • Fremont S • Gilroy S • Great Amer. S • Hayward S • Hillsdale S • Hyde St. Pier • Lk. Merritt S • Larkspur Tml. • MacArthur S • Martinez S • Millbrae S • Montgomery S • Mt. View S • Oakland Long Wharf† • Oakland S • Coliseum S • Palo Alto S • Bay Pt. S • Powell S • Richmond S • S. Bruno S • Sta. Clara S • SFO S • SF State S • Tamien S • Tasman S • Transbay Tml. • Union City S • Vallejo Tml. • Walnut Ck. S • W. Portal S

Notes	†=Heritage/Historic • S=Station