The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority will offer a few days of free travel starting Saturday, in hopes of increasing the number of passengers as the transit provider launches a new frequency plan more high.
Starting Saturday, with its first bus route of the day, VTA will provide free system-wide travel on all buses and trains until 5 a.m. Wednesday on New Year’s Day, Brandi Childress said. , spokesman for VTA.
Although sometimes the transportation authority offers a single day of free travel, “this time we wanted to make it easier for people to try our service and we thank them for the patience everyone has had as we develop our new traffic service. design, ”Childress said.
“As we prepared for the new BART system, we knew it would be a good opportunity to look at the system and find areas where to improve frequency and connect bus routes that would help the regional service,” Childress added.
VTA will launch a new “Frequent Routes” plan on Saturday, with 20 bus and light rail routes that are said to be every 15 minutes or so during weekdays at stops across the county.
“This is the most important traffic service change VTA has implemented since 2008,” VTA said in a press release on Tuesday. “Not only has the service been redesigned to accommodate the addition of the BART service, but it will give more people more frequent and reliable traffic options.
The change was made with community input for 18 months and will change the routes for low-driving drivers, so 90% of the service will focus on high-driving areas, according to VTA.
Silicon Valley residents are still waiting for BART extensions in Santa Clara County at BART Berryessa and Milpitas stations, which should open before the new year and have since been postponed without a new day. opening.
VTA will run bus routes to possible extensions starting Saturday.
You can find more information about free routes and new service routes at https://newservice.vta.org.