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The Highway 17 Express is an Amtrak Thruway route provided by a consortium of entities that provides regional service between San Jose and Santa Cruz County in the South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The service is so called because it travels on California State Route 17. It is operated by the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District.
San Jose Must Have An Airport – 1929. In 1939, Ernie Renzel, a wholesale grocer and future mayor of San Jose, led a group that negotiated an option to buy 483 acres (195 ha) of the Stockton Ranch from the Crocker family, to be the site of San Jose's airport. Renzel led the effort to pass a bond measure to pay for the land in 1940.
San Jose San Jose State University (weekdays) Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Metro Center Daily San Jose, Scotts Valley, Soquel, Santa Cruz Highway 17 Express: Known internally as Line 970. Operated by Santa Cruz Metro. Jointly funded by VTA, Caltrans, Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority, and Santa Cruz Metro.
North-south six-lane freeway entirely in San Jose, connecting San Jose International Airport, Downtown to the Almaden Valley. (formerly the Guadalupe Parkway) Route 152: Two-lane highway from Watsonville, crosses the Santa Cruz Mountains to Gilroy, then crosses the Diablo Range through Pacheco Pass to I-5 near Los Banos. Route 156
San Francisco International Airport. The following airports are in the area around the San Francisco Bay, including the cities of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland.The list includes only public-use and/or government-owned airports in the eleven counties (the nine counties that border the bay, plus Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties) that make up the Census Bureau's San Jose–San Francisco ...
In 1934, the State of California began signing its routes. The route which in subsequent years corresponded with State Route 17 was signed as State Route 13, and described as "Santa Cruz to Jct. US 101 at San Rafael, via San Jose, Mt. Eden, and Oakland." [13] The route taken between Oakland and San Rafael is not described.
VTA operates 42.2 miles (67.9 km) of light rail route on 3 lines. All the lines and the corridors they run through are designed to move passengers from the suburban areas of Santa Clara Valley into the major business areas in Downtown, the Santa Clara County Civic Center, and northern Silicon Valley, site of many high-tech company offices.
Santa Cruz METRO extended service to Watsonville, Scotts Valley and the San Lorenzo Valley in 1974. In 1979, voters approved a measure to change the financing of Santa Cruz METRO from a property tax to a 1/2 cent sales tax. The Amtrak Thruway Highway 17 Express service between Santa Cruz and San Jose started as an emergency bus service after ...