Milpitas Light Rail Station to Close For 3 Months

MILPITAS, CA — A light-rail station in Milpitas will shutter for the next three months as crews modify it in preparation for the BART extension to Silicon Valley, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority officials said Monday.

Starting Jan. 30, the Montague station will be completely closed while crews set it up to accommodate an elevator stop for the newly constructed pedestrian overcrossing above Capitol Avenue.

VTA will provide a shuttle between the station and the Great Mall Transit Center from 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. weekdays and 7 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. on weekends, VTA officials said. The shuttle will run every 15 minutes before 8:30 p.m. and every 30 minutes after.

VTA is holding five public meetings and four webinars in the next month to hear riders' opinions on a redesigned service network to be approved April 6.

The plan is intended to connect VTA buses and light-rail with the Milpitas and Berryessa BART stations.
The 6 p.m. meetings will be held this evening at the Campbell Library Community Room at 77 Harrison Ave., on Feb. 6 at the Adobe Building at 157 Moffett Blvd. in Mountain View, on Feb. 13 at the Alum Rock Branch
Library at 3090 Alum Rock Ave. in San Jose, on Feb. 15 at the Gilroy Library at 350 West Sixth St. and at the Southside Community and Senior Center at 5585 Cottle Road in San Jose.

Webinars are scheduled for Tuesday at 10 a.m., Thursday at 3 p.m., Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. and Feb. 15 at noon.

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