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An Army-Navy task force concluded that an additional trans-bay crossing would soon be needed and recommended a tunnel; however, actual planning for a rapid transit system did not begin until the 1950s. In 1951, California's legislature created the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission to study the Bay Area's long-term transportation ...
Bay Wheels (launched as Bay Area Bike Share) is a regional public bicycle sharing system that serves the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, and San Jose. The bicycles are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to anyone who purchases a membership, with three options, annual fee of US$150 , US$29 for a month or US$15 ...
It serves San Jose, California, and the surrounding Silicon Valley. It is one of the governing parties for the Caltrain commuter rail line that serves the county. In 2024, the VTA's public transportation services had a combined ridership of 29,167,300, or about 96,600 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2024.
Since 1863 the San Francisco Peninsula, the series of towns (and later, cities) between San Francisco and San Jose, has been served by a railroad.The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad first provided freight and passenger service, followed by its successor, the Southern Pacific, and then briefly by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and finally by a regional Joint Powers ...
San Jose had 405,000 jobs within its city limits in 2006, and an unemployment rate of 4.6%. San Jose has the highest median income of any U.S. city with over 280,000 people. On March 14, 2013, San Jose implemented a public wireless connection in its downtown area. Wireless access points have been placed on outdoor light posts throughout the ...
The Coast Daylight at San Jose in 1970 Aerial view of Diridon station and vicinity in 2018. A rail station at this location was established in 1878, when the narrow-gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad opened their San Jose Depot on the site. When Southern Pacific gained control of the railroad in 1887, the station was folded into the system and ...
Reloadable contactless smart card systems, allowing electronic fare payments on various public transportation systems, have been introduced since 2007, such as the Clipper Card in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Transit Access Pass in Los Angeles County, and the Compass Card (later replaced in 2021 by the Pronto card) in San Diego County.
Sleep, doom metal band formed in San Jose [227] [228] Smash Mouth, pop-rock band formed in San Jose [229] [230] Snow Tha Product, rapper, born in San Jose [231] [232] Skip Spence, co-founder of Moby Grape [233] Stone Temple Pilots, band [234] [235] Eric Kretz, drummer for Stone Temple Pilots, Talk Show, and Spiralarms, born in San Jose