We’ve learned the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) seeks ideas from YOU on the future of transportation in Santa Clara County. Starting TONIGHT at 6pm online, is the first of several meetings VTA is holding to help plan public transit (as well as walking, biking, paratransit and highway projects) for Santa Clara County’s future.
Category: Advocacy
Our (and other) transit advocacy efforts in Silicon Valley.
Some VTA Buses Couldn’t Take the Heat
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September 6 featured record high temperatures in Santa Clara County. One result of this, we learned, was that the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) had to take 40 buses out of service that day. This was covered in the Mercury News (via East Bay Times) and CBS Bay Area.
Below highlights what was learned directly from VTA on what else happened that hot dayIt’s deeper than what has been reported in the press on this matter. Read and learn for more details.
Help Make 6 Light Rail Platforms Safer TODAY
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Here’s a quick action item at San Jose City Council today you can take up at 1:30pm today. It’s to help make sure six (6) VTA light rail stations are safer and fully compliant with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
More on what YOU can do to help make these light rail platforms safer follows…
How “Work With…” Won Better
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On August 9, three (3) major votes affecting housing and public transportation in San Jose were approved by City Council. Our group helped encourage citizens like YOU to urge City Council to approve these votes.
Read on for what those votes were, and how our group took part in encouraging and making them happen.
VTA Reform Back On the Table
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“The time is always right to do the right thing.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Remember efforts last year on Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) governance reform via AB 1091? VTA reform is back in play again in the State Legislature, thanks to California State Assembly Member Marc Berman.
Assembly Member Berman will have a town hall to discuss this new effort at VTA Governance Reform. That town hall takes place on Wednesday from 6pm-7pm. Speakers at the Town Hall will include:
- Current VTA Board Chair and San Jose Vice Mayor Charles “Chappie” Jones
- Former VTA Board member and current Santa Clara City Council member Teresa O’Neill
- Amalgamated Transportation Union (ATU) Local 265 President & Business Agent John Courtney
RSVP to make yourself part of that town hall Wednesday evening at 6pm.
Afterward, read more on why we continue to support governance reform at VTA.