Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, more commonly known simply as the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), is a special district responsible for public transit services, congestion management, specific highway improvement projects, and countywide transportation planning for Santa Clara County, California. It serves San Jose, California, and the surrounding Silicon Valley. It is one of the governing parties for the Caltrain commuter rail line that serves the county. In 2023, the VTA's public transportation services had a combined ridership of 26,610,000, or about 87,500 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023.
VTA bus (top) and light rail vehicle (bottom)
Image: VTA 60 bus at Winchester and Hamilton (cropped)
A 1986 Flxible Metro bus of Santa Clara County Transit
VTA low-floor light rail vehicle at Tasman Station on the Santa Teresa line
Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020 census. Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County form the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area. Santa Clara is the most populous county in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Northern California.
Image: SJ skyline at night horizontal
Image: Stanford University Main Quad May 2011 001 (cropped)
Image: Friday May 10, 130 365 (8761584621)
Image: Almaden Lake Park 1.2 (cropped)
