Santa Clara–Great America station explained

Style:Amtrak
Santa Clara–Great America
Address:5099 Stars & Stripes Drive
Borough:Santa Clara, California
Country:United States
Coordinates:37.4066°N -121.9669°W
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:14
Line:UP Coast Subdivision
Connections: (at Lick Mill station)
VTA Bus: Altamont Corridor Express shuttles
Platform:1 side platform
Tracks:1
Parking:189 spaces[1]
Bicycle:12 lockers[2]
Opened:May 21, 1993
Accessible:Yes
Owned:City of Santa Clara and Union Pacific Railroad[3]

Santa Clara–Great America station (called Great America station by ACE) is a train station in Santa Clara, California. It hosts Amtrak's Capitol Corridor trains and Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) trains. The station is close to Levi's Stadium and California's Great America. Of the 75 California stations served by Amtrak, Great America was the 20th-busiest in FY2019, boarding or detraining an average of about 533 passengers daily.

Great America was proposed as a station for the new service in 1990.[4] The Capitols began operation in 1991; Santa Clara–Great America station opened as an infill station on May 21, 1993.[5]

Transit connections

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) provides connecting shuttles to employers in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Milpitas, and North San Jose.[6]

The station does not offer direct access to the VTA light rail, but the system's Lick Mill station is located to the east and Great America station is (located at the California's Great America theme park) is to the west.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Great America Station . May 5, 2022 . www.vta.org . en.
  2. Web site: BikeLink Locations . May 5, 2022 . BikeLink.
  3. Web site: Santa Clara, CA – Great America (GAC) – Great American Stations . March 5, 2022 . en-US.
  4. News: Commute train service back on track . Benny . Evangelista . Oakland Tribune . September 24, 1990 . A-6, A-8 . Newspapers.com.
  5. Web site: Hotline #777 . National Association of Railroad Passengers . National Association of Railroad Passengers . June 11, 1993 . July 31, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131212023906/http://www.narprail.org/news/hotline/881-hotline-777-june-11-1993 . December 12, 2013 .
  6. Web site: ACE Shuttles . July 2, 2018 . . April 12, 2020 . October 12, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221012001200/https://acerail.com/wp-content/uploads/ACE-Shuttle-Map-Sched-2018.pdf . dead .