This area had a great many rail options 70+ years ago. You used to be able to ride from downtown Santa Clara (when it actually had a downtown) all the way down

This area had a great many rail options 70+ years ago. You used to be able to ride from downtown Santa Clara (when it actually had a downtown) all the way down The Alameda into downtown San Jose on a trolley. That "dip" under the tracks by the HP Pavilion had trolley tracks on it all the way into the 1930s. I figured this out by looking at old pictures. The big kerfuffle now is whether they should close down a lane of El Camino Real to make it "bus rapid transit". Some cities say yes, others say no, so you wind up with this odd patchwork of half-implemented systems.