Comments on: Light Rail Derails Near WG http://willowglenextra.com/2008/03/light-rail-derails-near-wg/ Independent Neighborhood News & Talking Points Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:52:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Tamien Light Rail Open Southbound Only! http://willowglenextra.com/2008/03/light-rail-derails-near-wg/#comment-297846 Tamien Light Rail Open Southbound Only! Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:10:02 +0000 http://www.willowglenextra.com/2008/03/light-rail-derails-near-wg/#comment-297846 [...] quick update from VTA, unrelated to the recent derailment: Beginning March 25, both weekday and weekend northbound light rail trains will travel through [...] [...] quick update from VTA, unrelated to the recent derailment: Beginning March 25, both weekday and weekend northbound light rail trains will travel through [...]

]]> By: SJ Inside's Jessica Fromm ... http://willowglenextra.com/2008/03/light-rail-derails-near-wg/#comment-297813 SJ Inside's Jessica Fromm ... Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:03:30 +0000 http://www.willowglenextra.com/2008/03/light-rail-derails-near-wg/#comment-297813 <a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/sji/blog/entries/when_the_light_rail_derailed_the_vta_was_mia/" rel="nofollow">San Jose Inside has published a first-person account</a> from SJSU student (and Metro intern) Jessica Fromm: <blockquote>Anybody who rides Silicon Valley public transportation knows the eclectic experience of traveling via the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). From tardy buses to drunken fights, graffiti to sleeping transients, and unidentifiable stains to vomit, you never know what you’re going to get when you step aboard one of the VTA’s fine vehicles. However, what I didn’t expect on my ride home the night of March 21 was a train wreck. I was one of 29 passengers aboard a light rail train that derailed near the Virginia station, <a href="http://www.sanjoseinside.com/sji/blog/entries/when_the_light_rail_derailed_the_vta_was_mia/" rel="nofollow">injuring four people and blocking trains for nearly 12 hours</a>. </blockquote> San Jose Inside has published a first-person account from SJSU student (and Metro intern) Jessica Fromm:

Anybody who rides Silicon Valley public transportation knows the eclectic experience of traveling via the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). From tardy buses to drunken fights, graffiti to sleeping transients, and unidentifiable stains to vomit, you never know what you’re going to get when you step aboard one of the VTA’s fine vehicles. However, what I didn’t expect on my ride home the night of March 21 was a train wreck.

I was one of 29 passengers aboard a light rail train that derailed near the Virginia station, injuring four people and blocking trains for nearly 12 hours.

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