Tamien | |
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  Tamien Location within San Jose and Silicon Valley | |
| Coordinates: 37°18′44″N121°52′57″W / 37.312171°N 121.882585°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| City | San Jose |
Tamien is a neighborhood of central San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley. The neighborhood is centered around Tamien Station, one of San Jose's most important transit stations. [1]
The neighborhood and its station are named after the Tamien people of the Ohlone nation, the indigenous inhabitants of San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley.
Tamien is immediately south of Washington-Guadalupe. The Guadalupe Freeway (CA-87) cuts through the neighborhood.
Since the onset of the California housing crisis, the neighborhood has been earmarked by city and transit authorities for a mixed-used transit-oriented development around Tamien Station. [2] [3] [4]
Tamien is one of the best served neighborhoods in San Jose in terms of transportation. [5]
Tamien station is served by:
Caltrain is a California commuter rail line in the Santa Clara Valley and the San Francisco Peninsula. The southern terminus is in San Jose at Tamien station with weekday rush hour service running as far as Gilroy. The northern terminus of the line is in San Francisco at 4th and King Streets. Caltrain has 28 regular stops, one limited-service weekday-only stop, one weekend-only stop (Broadway), and one football-only stop (Stanford). Weekday ridership in February 2018 averaged 65,095.
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Tamien 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-level that is below the two platforms. The light rail platform is located in the center median of the State Route 87 freeway just north of the Alma Avenue overpass. The Caltrain platform is located between Lick Avenue and State Route 87, just north of Alma Avenue.
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VTA Light Rail is a light rail system serving San Jose and its Silicon Valley suburbs in Santa Clara County, California. It is operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, or VTA, and consists of 42.2 miles (67.9 km) of network comprising three main lines on standard gauge tracks. Originally opened on December 11, 1987, the light rail system has gradually expanded since then, and currently has 60 light rail stations in operation. VTA operates a fleet of Kinki Sharyo Low Floor Light Rail Vehicles (LFLRV) to service its passengers. The system's average weekday daily ridership as of the end of 2019 is 26,700 passengers and a total annual ridership of 8,335,100 passengers.
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