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From: VTA Board Secretary Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 3:14 PM To: VTA Board of Directors; VTA Advisory Committee Members Subject: December 2017 VTA Connections Newsletter VTA Board of Directors and VTA Advisory Committee Members: Below is VTA’s newsletter for December 2017. It can also be accessed using this link: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAVTA/bulletins/1ca8c58 Please share with your constituents. Thank you. Office of the Board Secretary Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority 3331 N. First Street San Jose, CA 95134 408.321.5680 [email protected] Tunnel Analysis for BART SV; You Stuffed the Bus; Fare Change Outreach; Rapid 523 Construction December 2017 VTA Connections Stay in the know about transportation in Silicon Valley
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From: VTA Board Secretary Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 3:14 PM To: VTA Board of Directors; VTA Advisory Committee Members Subject: December 2017 VTA Connections Newsletter
VTA Board of Directors and VTA Advisory Committee Members:
Below is VTA’s newsletter for December 2017. It can also be accessed using this link:
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAVTA/bulletins/1ca8c58
Please share with your constituents.
Thank you.
Office of the Board Secretary
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
3331 N. First Street
San Jose, CA 95134
408.321.5680
Tunnel Analysis for BART SV; You Stuffed the Bus; Fare Change Outreach; Rapid 523
Construction
December 2017
VTA Connections
Stay in the know about
transportation in Silicon Valley
Decorated interior of VTA's historic Holiday Trolley
VTA to Further Analyze
Tunnel Design for BART
Silicon Valley Phase II
IN THIS
ISSUE
VTA to Further
Analyze Tunnel
Phase II of VTA’s BART Silicon Valley is reaching a critical
phase in the environmental clearance process. On Thursday,
December 7, VTA staff presented to the VTA Board of Directors
next steps to advance Phase II of the BART Silicon Valley project
into the final environmental phase and to prepare for the federal
engineering phase.
The planned six-mile extension would continue BART from the
Berryessa/North San José Station into downtown San Jose and
then into the City of Santa Clara.
Read more. Back to Top
You Helped Us “Stuff the VTA
Bus”
Design for BART
Silicon Valley Phase
II
You Helped Us
“Stuff the VTA
Bus”
Spreading the Word
on New Fares and
Free Transfers
Progress on Rapid
523 Bus Stop
Construction
For questions or
more information
about VTA please
contact Customer
Service
408.321.2300 or
Community
Outreach
408.321.7575
Visit www.vta.org
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter,
Instagram, and YouTube
VTA thanks you for your support in helping to "stuff the bus" this
holiday season. On Saturday, December 9, we filled almost two
40-foot buses with toys for children in need, as part of the U.S.
Marines' annual Toys for Tots program.
San Jose Mayor and newly elected VTA Board Chair Sam
Liccardo greeted donors along with VTA board member Cindy
Chavez and others to accept donations of new, unwrapped toys.
From all of us at VTA, thank you for your generosity, and we wish
you safe, healthy and happy holidays.
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Spreading the Word on New
Fares and Free Transfers
UPCOMING
EVENTS Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017
4 pm
PAC Meeting, 3331 N. FIrst
St., San Jose
Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018
5:30 pm
VTA Board meeting
70 W. Hedding St., San Jose
Thursday, Jan. 11
6 pm
Community Mtg. -
Curtner Station Joint
Development
BOARD
UPDATE
Elected - Sam
Liccardo as
Chairperson and
Teresa O’Neill
asVice Chair for
2018
Beginning December 5 through early January, you’ll see VTA’s
yellow-vested Outreach Team at select transit centers throughout
Santa Clara County distributing information on the new fare
structure and transfer policy.
Effective January 1, 2018, two-hour fares that include FREE
transfers will be available to customers using a Clipper card or
VTA’s mobile fare app, EZfare. After the first tag on Clipper or
upon activating a Single Ride fare your smartphone through
EZfare, customers will be able to transfer within the next two
hours for free across all VTA bus and light rail service (except
Express Bus.)
Read more. Back to Top
Progress on Rapid 523 Bus
Stop Construction
Deferred action on
Item #7.3 -
Declaration of
Surplus Property for
Great Mall Transit
Center in Milpitas
and asked staff to
come back with an
analysis of options
Approved
employment contract
amendments for the
General Manager and
General Counsel
Approved all
remaining action
items on the agenda
This month VTA will complete the majority of the bus stop
improvements for the upcoming Rapid 523 service.
The new bus route is scheduled to begin in June 2018, in
coordination with the arrival of BART service in San Jose. Rapid
523 will improve travel time and enhance the passenger waiting
area to encourage walking and bicycling in the corridor.
Construction on the Rapid 523 bus stop improvement project
began last May. Since then, 14 different bus stops in San Jose and
Santa Clara have been upgraded with new concrete bus pads,
curbs, gutters, and/or sidewalks.
Read more. Back to Top
Conserve paper. Think before you print.
From: VTA Board Secretary
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 11:50 AM
To: VTA Board Secretary
Subject: VTA Correspondence: Councilmember Khamis Holiday Greetings; Comments on Affordable
Housing near VTA's Tamien Station and Bus Route 45
VTA Board of Directors:
We are forwarding you the following:
From Topic
Councilmember Johnny Khamis and
the District 10 Team
Holiday greetings
Member of the Public Comments regarding affordable housing near VTA’s
Tamien Station
Member of the Public Comments regarding Bus Route 45
Thank you.
Office of the Board Secretary
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
3331 N. First Street
San Jose, CA 95134
408.321.5680
Wishing you peace and joy in 2018!
~photo
From: Julie Priest Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 1:32 PM To: VTA Board Secretary; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Affordable Housing at Tamien
Dear VTA Board Members,
We need more affordable housing at the VTA's Tamien Transit
Oriented Development! The Washington community is a low
income community and desperately needs more affordable
housing. We'd like to see 130 units of affordable housing at
Tamien, with the majority (or all) of the affordable housing for
residents at less than 50% of the Area Median
Income. Additionally, we'd like to ensure that the affordable
housing units are accessible for undocumented families. The
project is now in the critical planning phases, let's make sure
we're able to achieve more than the minimum of 88 units of
affordable housing at Tamien!
I work as a nurse practitioner at the Indian Health Center, and
many of my patients are people who need low-income housing.
Many work so hard, with both parents having 2 jobs, sometimes
more. But they still cannot afford rent and are being pushed out
of the area by rising prices. Please, I urge you to save at least
130 units to be use for low-income housing.
Kind regards,
Julie Priest
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Ciuba
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2017 5:26 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]; VTA Board Secretary;
[email protected]; Herbert, Frances; Winston, Ethan
Subject: Dec. 7 2017 VTA Board of Directors Meeting
I would like to thank the VTA Board of Directors for allowing me to speak during Open Forum
at your meeting last Thursday evening. Prior to that I listened to your campaign speeches as
Vice-Chair candidates expressed their designs to bring mass transit to general public, shut-ins,
non-drivers, etc., people who otherwise do not have a transit outlet from their neighborhood.
I hope you took to heart my words and those of Tony Perez who also came to present this very
case to keep bus route 45 running and not discontinue in June under the current plan. Our
community needs this bus so students can get to school and libraries, non-drivers like Mr.
Perez can go to their jobs, to medical appointments, to visit family and friends, to access other
transit out of the immediate neighborhood.
Please do not close down bus route 45. If your sincerely meant the words of your campaigns,
then restoring this route is precisely the action you the VTA Board of Directors should
command of your staff.
Thank you again for the privilege to be heard at your monthly meeting Dec. 7.
Sincerely,
Frank Ciuba
San Jose Resident, Taxpayer, HOA President
