A VTA employees was shot and killed Friday evening at the VTA Chaboya Division Yard on the 2200 block of South 7th Street near Costco and the County Fairgrounds.

The top industry award from the American Public Transportation Association honors a public transportation system member that has demonstrated achievement in efficiency and effectiveness.

VTA said it anticipates a steady delivery rate of six buses per week starting this week, with a completely new fleet expected to be operational in the coming month as VTA decommissions most of its remaining diesel buses.

The bus that caught fire was one of VTA's 10 Proterra battery electric buses and all of them were taken out of service pending an investigation.

In 2020, VTA entered into a cost-sharing agreement with the Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing, leveraging Measure A tax funding and VTA land to build four 100% affordable housing developments.

Although Clipper cards were already available to the greater student body at the university, the BayPass allows students to take public transit without worrying about crossing county lines and having to pay fares in public transit within that county,

Deputies responded at 7:50am Friday and contacted the person who reported the threats, then arrested the employee and booked him into Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of making criminal threats.

The VTA, like all transit agencies nationwide, has acknowledged that it is experiencing significant challenges attracting new bus drivers.

The first contract package, for the tunnel and trackwork, for $235 million, has been awarded to Kiewit Shea Traylor

Airlines, airports and other transportation agencies, including BART and Caltrain. had followed suit in making masks optional.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office arrested a San Jose man this week after he allegedly made threats involving a gun during a virtual VTA meeting.

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority began to run trains along selected test routes in preparation for restoring passenger service as early as the end of the week.

The 10-year employee was a paint-and-body worker at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority rail yard, scene of the May 26 attack by a fellow worker who shot and killed nine VTA colleagues before turning a gun on himself.

The resumption of the VTA “bus bridges” could ease a summer of frustration for thousands of mass transit commuters, who had been told in mid-June that light rail might resume this month.

Since its 2015 inception, ReMet's developers, Santa Clara lobbyists and elected officials had at least 17 closed door meetings

The VTA this week gave no new date for a resumption of service suspended since the May 26 mass killing at the VTA rail yards in San Jose.