Santa Teresa (VTA)

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Santa Teresa is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). This station is the southern terminus of VTA's Alum Rock-Santa Teresa line. It was built in the late 1980s as part of the original Guadalupé Line, the first segment of light rail that stretched to Tasman in northern San Jose.

As with all other stations on the Alum Rock - Santa Teresa line south of the Convention Center station, the Santa Teresa station only provides level boarding at the first door of the lead car via a wooden ramp. VTA plans to close this station from September to November 2008 to allow level boarding at all doors. However, the station will remain open during construction through a temporary platform. [1]

1 Location
2 Station amenities
3 Adjacent stations
4 Connecting transit
5 Note
6 External links

[edit] Location

Santa Teresa station is located just south of State Route 85, near Santa Teresa Boulevard in the southern part of San Jose, California. It is a major local transit center, and as such is the terminus of several bus routes. It is served by a shuttle to IBM's campus in South San Jose.

[edit] Station amenities

Bicycle parking
Payphone
Park and Ride Lot
Wheelchair accessible

[edit] Adjacent stations

Preceding station		VTA Light Rail		Following station
Cottle toward Alum Rock		Alum Rock - Santa Teresa		Terminus

[edit] Connecting transit

VTA Bus Route 72 no longer serves this station as of January 14, 2008, due to updates in VTA bus service. VTA Bus Route 67 and Limited-Stop Bus Route 305, which also served this station, were discontinued completely as a result of these updates.