Baypointe

Baypointe is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in San Jose, California. This station is served by VTA's Alum Rock–Santa Teresa line.Baypointe station is differentiated from other VTA light rail stations as it features three tracks and two island platforms. When Baypointe was used as a transfer station from 1999 to 2005, light rail vehicles on the line that terminates at Baypointe would stop and reverse direction on the center track, while the vehicles on other line would use the two outer tracks. Passengers could make a cross platform transfer with either line in any direction.HistoryBaypointe was built as part of the Tasman West extension, though it is actually just east of the original Tasman station. This extension included the Baypointe station along with 11 other stations and 7.6miles of trackway west of the Old Ironsides station (which was part of the original system opened in 1987).When this extension opened in December 1999, Baypointe station was the transfer station between what was then the "Baypointe–Mountain View" and the "Baypointe–Santa Teresa" lines. In May 2001, when the Tasman East light rail project (segment 1) extended the system to I-880/Milpitas station, Baypointe served as the northern terminus for the "Baypointe–Santa Teresa" line and became a through station for the "Mountain View–I880/Milpitas" line. In June 2004, when the Tasman East/Capitol extension opened, the line from Mountain view was changed to terminate at Baypointe and the line from Santa Teresa continued eastward to Alum Rock station.