VTA Light Rail: Orange Line: Milpitas - Downtown Mountain View
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
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Experience a lengthy journey on a nearly empty VTA light-rail train on the newly unveiled Orange Line, which travels from Alum Rock in East San Jose to Downtown Mountain View.
The journey takes us through the cities of Milpitas, San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and Mountain View, in that order. We begin our journey at Milpitas (formerly Montague) station; along the way, we pass by the Great Mall, Levi's Stadium, NASA Ames Research Center, and many different office parks home to various prominent companies.
VTA's new service changes on December 28, 2019, prompted the reshuffling of light rail and the formation of the Orange Line, which replaced two lines in favor of direct service between Alum Rock and Mountain View. (Judging from this video, it's done little to improve VTA's modest ridership numbers).
The Orange Line connects with the Blue Line at Baypointe and with the Green Line at Champion, Lick Mill, Great America and Old Ironsides.
![VTA Light Rail Orange Line Ride (Mountain View - Milpitas) [CAB VIEW]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0sKFtn922cU/mqdefault.jpg)
I used to ride the Santa Teresa-Alum Rock line and transfer at Tasman to go to Mountain View with my grandma. I remember before the big Samsung building at Tasman was built, and how shocked I was when we returned years later (when I was 12) and we discovered it was just there.
Video brings back some memories as a child I always loved to sit in the high seats there. It never occurred to me why the light rail was almost always empty, but we were loyal riders (before we had to move to the Tri-Valley). Every weekend and occasional Wednesdays (when I got out of school), we'd tag along with my mom (as she worked near Gilroy in the big offices) and she'd drop us off at Santa Teresa and we'd ride.
Some days it was only the Santa Teresa-Mountain View trip, others we got off at Ohlone and would take the Almaden line. On some special days, we'd get the All Day pass and ride every line. I used to have every station on every line memorized. God bless my grandma, as she spoke little English but still managed to take me on the line.
I still remember how the line was single track past a station.
I've watched this video over and over for a year now. Brings back some nostalgia, of sitting in the high seat watching the suburban sprawl of office space, through windows that were tainted with dried raindrops. I remember the sausage distribution warehouse thing that was on the line, and the section of line that went through mobile homes, and my favorite part where it went on private right of way to get to Mountain View.
My grandma is still with us, and will be for a while I hope. We occasionally talk about how we used to take V.T.A. all the time. Your video is a blessing.
Thank you.
This may be my favorite comment of all time. Thank you so much for such a wonderful and touching evocation. It's so great to hear your stories and that the video brings back memories of you taking VTA as a kid. It's those experiences people have that are a big reason I film public transit in the first place. Your grandma sounds amazing; I wish you and her all the best!
Same man, me and my mom used to ride the VTA Light Rail or the Bus all the time to Great Mall, going to the claire's, we'd also stop at Montague to the local asian grocery store to buy food, I'll say one thing, who needs seaworld when you got a good asian store. We'd also take it to the King Library, I also took the Light Rail to see CalTrain for the first time in my life. Stories like these made me turn into a railfan, then one day I saw a video by some guy named not just bikes, got instantly attracted by it, and now I'm a full fleged urbanist, although I now see the many, many flaws of the system, it still is the reason why I got into Urbanism in the first place.
@@hintmations These stories are so beautiful. Glad to hear all these memories :); I also love Not Just Bikes.
Now thanks to the Milpitas Bart opening, VTA will experience a larger crowd of 49ers fans on this Mountain View line.
good vibes 😎
What a beautiful Journey 😍❗
I was born and raised in San Jose. VTA was the way I moved around the city and went to school. Any Santa Teresa graduates from 1997?
Why so empty ??
Guys he was at Montague station also I liked his video
Good way to avoid viruses: ride an empty VTA train
if you ride a green line train through downtown during rush hour there’s a chance it’ll be somewhat crowded. otherwise this is pretty much normal ridership
Unfortunately, they never built all the development that was expected around the stations. There was supposed to a ton of new housing and office development that would make the system more viable. It seems that the success of these late 20th century early 2000s light rail systems is 100% dependent on whether the given cities managed to densify around the new lines.
San Jose pretty much failed to counteract the NIMBYs and very little was built for the first 20 years. They seem to be building a lot more density around the stations now, especially in Downtown. Now there's also a BART connection, and Caltrain is modernizing to have the same frequency as BART.
All in all, the future is probably a lot brighter for VTA light rail. They are finally doing what Portland and San Diego did from day one! But it certainly is taking a while.
I assume the orange line has lower ridership than the other 2 lines since it doesn’t travel through Downtown?
Here’s the caveat. It goes to Levi’s Stadium, Great America, and connects to BART
connects Bart and Caltrain too and a ton of office space in between too
Are there bike racks in there?
They have the vertically oriented bike areas in the center of the train.
Bay Area transit why did they I-80 Milpitas to alder and why did they montage to Milpitas
Because BART extended that way and now VTA and BART have a transfer station. They changed the names to make the BART and VTA stations names consistent.
You were on a train with no speakers apparently.
The new computerized voice sucks. I miss Sassy Susie and "Exit to the Left" Everett.
(The "new" schedule is awful. If you're coming from Mountain View or Sunnyvale, you have to get off like 10 mins after you get on if you want to go to San Jose. Poorly thought out)
Cool!
15:28 the stadium
Empty, as is usual with VTA
I’ve seen packed VTA trains before during the Erving rush hour (5-6 pm)