Alum Rock Transit Center

{{Short description|VTA light rail station in San Jose, California}}

{{about|the VTA light rail and bus station|the proposed BART subway station|28th Street/Little Portugal station}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{primary sources|date=September 2021}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2024}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Alum Rock

| style = SCVTA

| symbol_location = santaclara

| symbol = Orange

| image = VTA trains at Alum Rock station, March 2005.jpg

| image_caption = A VTA bus and two trains at Alum Rock, 2005

| other_name = Alum Rock Transit Center
Alum Rock station

| address = Capitol Avenue and Nuestra Castillo Court

| borough = San Jose, California

| coordinates = {{coord|37|21|30|N|121|49|56|W|type:railwaystation_region:US-CA|display=inline,title}}

| owned = Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority

| platforms = 1 island platform

| tracks = 2

| connections = {{bus icon}} VTA Bus: {{VTA bus route|23}}, {{VTA bus route|25}}, Rapid{{nbsp}}{{VTA bus route|522}}{{Cite web |date=October 11, 2021 |title=VTA Light Rail System |url=https://www.vta.org/sites/default/files/images/2021-10/LR-busconnect-101121_30x33.jpg |access-date=February 4, 2022 |website=Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority}}

| structure = At-grade

| parking = 110 spaces{{Cite web |title=Alum Rock Station |url=https://www.vta.org/go/stations/alum-rock |access-date=February 8, 2022 |website=Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority |language=en}}

| bicycle = Racks and lockers

| accessible = Yes

| opened = {{Start date|2004|06|24}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.vta.org/news/factsheets/bus_lightrail_trolly_information/09_light_rail_system_110705.pdf |title=VTA Facts: Light Rail System |date=November 30, 2006 |publisher=Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority |format=PDF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320011638/http://www.vta.org/news/factsheets/bus_lightrail_trolly_information/09_light_rail_system_110705.pdf |archive-date=March 20, 2009 |access-date=January 10, 2020}}

| closed =

| rebuilt =

| former =

| services = {{Adjacent stations

|system1=SCVTA

|line1=Orange|left1=McKee|right1=

}}

| other_services_header = Future service

| other_services_collapsible = yes

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations

|system1=SCVTA

|line1=Orange|left1=McKee|right1=Story|to-right1=Eastridge Transit Center

}}

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-zoom = 14

}}

Alum Rock Transit Center (or simply Alum Rock station) is an at-grade intermodal transit center located at the intersection of South Capitol Avenue and Nuestra Castillo Court in the Alum Rock district of San Jose, California. The light rail station is located in the center median of South Capitol Avenue and is the current eastern terminus for the Orange Line of the VTA light rail system. VTA buses serve the transit center both on South Capitol Avenue and in a nearby bus plaza located adjacent to the light rail station.

The transit center is the transfer point between the Orange Line and VTA's Rapid{{nbsp}}{{VTA bus route|522}} bus rapid transit route which offers service south to the Eastridge Transit Center or west to Downtown San Jose, San Jose Diridon station, and the Palo Alto Transit Center.