There were several projects in the study that are already well into planning-mode. These include BART to Downtown San Jose, a Light Rail extension to Eastridge Mall, a Light Rail extension to Los Gatos, and expanding the Express Lane system on our freeways. However, there were also brand new projects that I have never heard even mentioned before. This include a billion dollar Downtown San Jose Subway (nice!) that would significantly speed up the whole Light Rail system, a $1.5 billion Light Rail line that would go from Downtown San Jose to Santana Row/Valley Fair and eventually De Anza College, a new Light Rail line that would go from that NASA/Bayshore station to North Bayshore in Mountain View, and a ton of highway interchange improvements.
You can find some of the project "evaluation cards" below, but I recommend going through the whole list over here.
Source: Robertee from the San Jose Development Forum
The bicycle superhighway sounds brilliant.
ReplyDeleteBut do any of these other ideas account for the imminent reality of ubiquitous, rapid, self-driving, ultra-cheap transportation?
It didn't seem that way, but this is definitely something we should all be thinking about. Autonomous cars and point-to-point pods are likely going to be the two preferable transit options in the future.
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