svpii
Nov 1, 00, 10:35 am
Thought this might be of some interest to those of you in the SJ area...
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/001101/ca_san_jos.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/001101/ca_san_jos.html
Newsstand - Free Rides to San Jose International
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pshuang
Nov 4, 00, 1:28 pm
I was looking at this program last year and concluded that there was no VTA or CalTrain station where I would be allowed to park for >24 hours, as would be necessary to take advantage of this offer for holiday (Thanksgiving / Christmas) travel. Therefore, in order to take advantage of this "free ride" program, I would need to find somebody to give me a ride to the nearest VTA/CalTrain station... at which point, they might as well just drive me to SJC.
yonatan
Nov 5, 00, 11:24 am
Originally posted by pshuang:
I was looking at this program last year and concluded that there was no VTA or CalTrain station where I would be allowed to park for >24 hours, as would be necessary to take advantage of this offer for holiday (Thanksgiving / Christmas) travel. Therefore, in order to take advantage of this "free ride" program, I would need to find somebody to give me a ride to the nearest VTA/CalTrain station... at which point, they might as well just drive me to SJC.
pshuang:
This was a major reason why the transit service to the airport was underused, and after a passenger whose car had been towed from a P&R lot wrote to the SJMN´s Action Line, VTA finally did something about it - you can now park for up to a week at several of the P&Rs along the Light Rail route:
Want Free Long-Term Airport Parking For up to Seven Days? You got it!
VTA wants to make it easy for you to park, ride, and fly. That is why we are now providing
Airport Long-Term Parking at many of our Park & Ride lots. Now you can park your vehicle for
up to seven days at select VTA Park & Ride lots, and let us take you to the airport! Just park
your vehicle in one of over two hundred and forty designated Airport Long-Term Parking
spaces at the following VTA Light Rail Stations: Almaden, Blossom Hill, Branham, Capitol,
Cottle, Curtner, Evelyn, Ohlone/Chynoweth, Santa Theresa, Snell, and Tamien.
(source at http://www.vta.org/schedules/SC_10.html (http://www.vta.org/schedules/SC_10.html)) )
The Tamien station, incidentally, is also served by Caltrain.
Hope this helps...
Yonatan (Cupertino resident on an extended stay abroad)
[This message has been edited by yonatan (edited 11-05-2000).]
I was looking at this program last year and concluded that there was no VTA or CalTrain station where I would be allowed to park for >24 hours, as would be necessary to take advantage of this offer for holiday (Thanksgiving / Christmas) travel. Therefore, in order to take advantage of this "free ride" program, I would need to find somebody to give me a ride to the nearest VTA/CalTrain station... at which point, they might as well just drive me to SJC.
pshuang:
This was a major reason why the transit service to the airport was underused, and after a passenger whose car had been towed from a P&R lot wrote to the SJMN´s Action Line, VTA finally did something about it - you can now park for up to a week at several of the P&Rs along the Light Rail route:
Want Free Long-Term Airport Parking For up to Seven Days? You got it!
VTA wants to make it easy for you to park, ride, and fly. That is why we are now providing
Airport Long-Term Parking at many of our Park & Ride lots. Now you can park your vehicle for
up to seven days at select VTA Park & Ride lots, and let us take you to the airport! Just park
your vehicle in one of over two hundred and forty designated Airport Long-Term Parking
spaces at the following VTA Light Rail Stations: Almaden, Blossom Hill, Branham, Capitol,
Cottle, Curtner, Evelyn, Ohlone/Chynoweth, Santa Theresa, Snell, and Tamien.
(source at http://www.vta.org/schedules/SC_10.html (http://www.vta.org/schedules/SC_10.html)) )
The Tamien station, incidentally, is also served by Caltrain.
Hope this helps...
Yonatan (Cupertino resident on an extended stay abroad)
[This message has been edited by yonatan (edited 11-05-2000).]