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6/18/2024
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) last week broken ground for the BART Silicon Valley Phase II Extension Project.
A groundbreaking event was held June 14 at the future Santa Clara Station and Newhall Yard and Maintenance Facility in San Jose and Santa Clara, California.
The extension of the regional Bay Area Rapid Transit rail system is the largest transportation infrastructure project in Santa Clara County's history, VTA officials said in a news release. The project is designed to integrate Santa Clara County with the greater Bay Area's BART system. Passenger service on the extension is expected to begin in 2037.
“Connecting people to the heart of Silicon Valley will create opportunity for the future. We have the responsibility to make decisions that will be transformative for not just us, but for generations to come,” said San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan.
Meanwhile, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) recently broke ground on a project designed to make Erie Station on the Broad Street Line fully accessible.
The $38 million project calls for installing a new elevator from street level to the station mezzanine and new elevators from the mezzanine to the northbound and southbound platforms.
During an event held at Erie Station, U.S. Department of Transportation officials announced that the project is the first station accessibility project in the nation to advance to construction with funding from the Federal Transit Administration’s All Stations Accessibility Program (ASAP).
The Erie Station work is one of six SEPTA station accessibility projects that will be supported by ASAP funding.
“SEPTA is fully committed to making our vehicles and stations accessible to all, and ASAP funding is allowing us to accelerate our efforts to achieve that goal,” said SEPTA CEO and General Manager Leslie Richards in a press release.