Fruitdale (VTA)

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Fruitdale VTA light rail station

Fruitdale is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). The station has a center platform situated between two trackways. Fruitdale is served by the Mountain View-Winchester light rail line.

1 Location
2 Station Amenities
3 Architecture / Public Art
4 History
5 Nearby Points of Interest
6 Adjacent Stations
7 Connecting Transit
8 External links

[edit] Location

Address: 1490 Fruitdale Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
Nearest cross-streets: Corlista Drive and Southwest Expressway
Geographic coordinates: 37° 18' 37.1" North, 121° 55' 5.7" West

Metal screens that adorn the shelter at the Fruitdale VTA light rail station

[edit] Station Amenities

Fully wheelchair-accessible (level boarding platform)
Payphone

[edit] Architecture / Public Art

"San Jose artist Diana Pumpelly Bates has created metal screens for the shelters that provide visual interest for passengers at the stations as well as for motorists and pedestrians passing by the stations. The designs reflect the rising and setting sun." [1]

[edit] History

Fruitdale station was built as part of the Vasona Light Rail extension project. This project extended VTA light rail service from the intersection of Woz Way and West San Carlos St in San Jose in a southwesterly direction to the Winchester station in western Campbell.

The official opening date for this station was October 1, 2005.

The construction of this station and the rest of the Vasona Light Rail extension was part of the 1996 Measure B Transportation Improvement Program. Santa Clara County voters approved the Measure B project in 1996 along with a one half percent sales tax increase. The Vasona Light Rail extension was funded mostly by the resulting sales tax revenues with additional money coming from federal and state funding, grants, VTA bond revenues, and municipal contributions. [2]