Santa Clara County Transportation Overview

VTA has pledged to increase contracting opportunities for minority-owned businesses in its ongoing BART expansion into San Jose.
Sergio Lopez, mayor of Campbell and chair of VTA's board of directors, signed the Equity in Infrastructure Project pledge on behalf of …

San Jose has begun temporarily banning RVs in designated areas across the city this week.
Under a $3.3 million pilot program, Oversized and Lived-In Vehicle Enforcement (OLIVE), the city has chosen 30 temporary tow-away zones to clear RVs for street …

Homeless residents living along train tracks pose an unsafe and dangerous problem for railroad workers across California cities, including San Jose.
Recent videos shared by a San Jose-based railroad enthusiast show workers and riders passing by homeless camps close to …

Facing criticism from downtown merchants, Palo Alto is preparing to drop a policy that allows restaurants to extend their dining areas into adjacent properties, even without consent from neighbors.
The change, which the City Council will consider at its Jan. …

Stevens Creek Boulevard is on the road to a complete renovation in the name of safety and public transit, but improvements are years away.
The Stevens Creek Boulevard Corridor Vision Steering Committee on Wednesday voted unanimously to recommend a plan …

Making some tradeoffs to get more homes built, Mountain View backed an affordable housing development that will support lower-income residents, but will have very few parking spaces for them.
CRP Affordable Housing is proposing to build an eight-story apartment complex …

California Avenue will finally get some love next month, when Palo Alto’s contractors start painting two-way bike lanes, implementing colored paving and installing planters at the entrance points of the eclectic retail district that expelled cars and welcomed dining tents …

Traffic safety improvements meant to protect San Jose and Los Gatos may have actually made cycling on a busy road more dangerous, bicycle riders said.
San Jose transportation department workers recently added plastic barriers known as “bollards” along Los Gatos …

Roads in certain parts of fast-paced Silicon Valley have just gotten slower.
Los Gatos and Cupertino recently slowed some speed limits by 5 miles per hour in an attempt to promote traffic safety and reduce injuries and fatalities. Los Gatos …

An extension of the BART system into San Jose tops the list of 65 infrastructure projects in Santa Clara County in 2024.