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A day pass that is also good for all VTA bus and light rail as well as Santa Cruz Metro buses is available for $14.00. The VTA EcoPass Express is good for travel on the Highway 17 Express service. Support for purchasing tickets using the Clipper card is not currently supported. Most buses are equipped with bike racks capable of holding three ...
Only Campbell, Milpitas, Mountain View, San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale are served by light rail. The VTA partners with Highway 17 Express to provide service to Santa Cruz and with Dumbarton Express to provide transbay service between Union City and Stanford University.
Highway 17 Express: North-South San Jose San Jose State University (select weekday trips) Santa Cruz River Front Transit Center Daily San Jose, Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz Highway 17 Express: Known internally as Line 970. Operated by Santa Cruz Metro. Jointly funded by VTA, Caltrans, Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority, and Santa Cruz Metro.
The Amtrak Thruway Highway 17 Express service between Santa Cruz and San Jose started as an emergency bus service after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake closed Highway 17. A strike in September 2005 lasted for 35 days and stranded up to 23,000 riders. [4] In 2011 fixed route service was severely cut then restored mere months later. [5]
The bus plaza at the station is served by Amtrak Thruway, Greyhound, Monterey–Salinas Transit, Santa Cruz METRO (Highway 17 Express), and VTA buses. Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Green and Orange Line metro service to a new underground station is projected to begin in 2036 with the completion of the Silicon Valley BART extension .
The crash happened at 7 a.m. Thursday, killing a pedestrian who was trying to cross intersection of Highway 17 Bypass.
VTA operates 42.2 miles (67.9 km) of light rail route on 3 lines. All the lines and the corridors they run through are designed to move passengers from the suburban areas of Santa Clara Valley into the major business areas in Downtown, the Santa Clara County Civic Center, and northern Silicon Valley, site of many high-tech company offices.
VTA bus route 76 [1] has been cancelled since June 2010, and the Highway 17 Express [2] only stops in Scotts Valley. It is one of the few places in the San Francisco Bay Area to receive snowfall and the mountain pass which links the Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay is closed at this spot when snowfall is too heavy.