SANTA CLARA — Taylor Swift may be right that, “Nothin’ good starts in a getaway car.”
Fortunately, it appears that no one was stranded at local stations — a feat local agencies are hoping will assure fans that they can rely on public transit once again for Saturday’s sold-out show. An estimated 23,400 people boarded VTA light rail to and from Levi’s Stadium — easily smashing the previous record of 15,000 passengers tallied during the 2015 NHL Winter Classic, and more than double the 10,000 people who rode to and from Super Bowl 50 in 2016. VTA’s light rail, which runs right past the stadium, typically transports about 8,000 passengers to and from regular football games, Ross said.
“It was just a crush of people in line — a little bit chaotic for the average person being out there in this huge crowd,” Ross said, adding that VTA usually clears lines of waiting passengers within an hour of Levi’s Stadium events ending. “Right now, we’re reevaluating what we can do to accommodate the crowds tonight. Obviously, it’s not ideal for people to have to wait an hour or an hour-and-a-half to get on a train, but when there are 12,000 people in front of you, sometimes that happens.
He said the agency is offering another special post-event train Saturday evening, which is still tentatively scheduled to leave 75 minutes after the end of the show or when capacity is full, but the train’s departure will be delayed to wait for passengers after the show, if need be.Most Amtrak passengers successfully made it onto the last Capitol Corridor train leaving Santa Clara’s Great America station, which started rolling only 15 minutes past its originally scheduled 11:59 p.m.
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