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For the non-rotating members (San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and County Supervisor), each member may serve multiple terms. [40]: 2 From 2004 to 2009, the Board had similar requirements with five San Jose City Councilmembers and two County Supervisors; the five non-San Jose city-level Board members were selected as: [41]: 2
VTA operates 42.2 miles (67.9 km) of light rail route on 3 lines. All the lines and the corridors they run through are designed to move passengers from the suburban areas of Santa Clara Valley into the major business areas in Downtown, the Santa Clara County Civic Center, and northern Silicon Valley, site of many high-tech company offices.
Stanford University, Santa Clara Transit Center, Santa Clara University, Downtown San Jose, San Jose State University, Alum Rock station, Eastridge Mall Part of the Frequent Network. For service to other stops not served by this line, as well as for stops along King Road, Tully Road, and Capitol Expressway, see lines 22 and 23 above.
Highways through the Santa Cruz Mountains, connecting the South Bay to Santa Cruz. Part of SR 17 in San Jose is a 6 to 8 lane freeway. Route 85 West Valley Freeway Route 237 Southbay Freeway Six-lane and, in some parts, seven to eight-lane freeways connecting the west Santa Clara Valley to the east Santa Clara Valley, bypassing Downtown San Jose.
Tamien station is an intermodal passenger transportation station in the Tamien neighborhood of central San Jose, California, served by the VTA light rail and the Caltrain commuter rail line, along with bus connections. The station has two elevated island platforms, one for each service. The two platforms are connected by a walkway at ground ...
IBM established its first West Coast operations in San Jose in 1943 with a downtown punch card plant, and opened an IBM Research lab in 1952. Reynold B. Johnson and his team developed direct access storage for computers, [73] inventing the RAMAC 305 and the hard disk drive; the technological side of San Jose's economy grew. [74]
San Jose City Hall in 1854. San Jose was incorporated as one of California's first cities on March 27, 1850. Mayor Josiah Belden convened the city council for the first time on April 13 at the juzgado, a short distance from the plaza mayor where the first California State Legislature was in session. [20] The juzgado was sold and torn down that ...
Construction began in 2012, [5] [6] and the extension and its two new stations were inaugurated on June 12, 2020, while service for the public began on the next day. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Many credited the former Mayor of San Jose, Ron Gonzales , with bringing this project to fruition.