REPORT TO BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE
SUBJECT
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BART Silicon Valley Phase II Extension Project's Santa Clara Station (VTA)
Report
BACKGROUND
VTA's BART Silicon Valley Phase II Extension (BSVII Project) is a six-mile, four-station extension of BART from the Berryessa/North San Jos? Station (opened 2020) through downtown San Jos? to the City of Santa Clara (City). The BSVII Project is planned to include an approximately five-mile subway with three underground platform stations (28th Street/Little Portugal, Downtown San Jos?, and Diridon), one ground-level station (Santa Clara), a train maintenance and storage facility (Newhall Yard and Maintenance Facility), and other additional facilities.
The BSVII Project was approved with state and federal environmental clearance in 2018. The City adopted the environmental document in July 2021. In May 2022, the Santa Clara Valley (VTA) Board of Directors voted unanimously to authorize the General Manager/CEO to award the first Contract Package for the Tunnel and Trackwork (CP2) to Kiewit Shea Traylor (KST), a Joint Venture.
The latest Station design addressed public concerns regarding the previous configuration of the Santa Clara Station, which required passengers to travel up onto an elevated concourse before going back down to the at-grade platform. The revised design of the Station allows for a ground-level station entrance and concourse, significantly simplifying the path of travel that passengers would need to follow to access the BART trains.
VTA re-engaged the City as station design advanced in 2023, bringing forward this major station configuration change.
DISCUSSION
The Santa Clara BART Station (Station) will be the end of the line for the BSVII Project, and is located at the end of Brokaw Road, just north of the railroad corridor and south of the future extension of Champions Way. A site plan of the Station is provided in Attachment 1. The station will be across the railroad tracks from Santa...
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