Ken Yeager Rejoins The Caltrain Board

Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager was reappointed to the Caltrain board today after a brief hiatus from the rail line’s three-county policy board.

Members of the Caltrain board are appointed to represent various agencies. A San Jose City Councilman before his election to the Board of Supervisors last year, Yeager had formerly represented the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority at Caltrain in his capacity as a city official.

He returned to Caltrain today as a county representative on the regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission, on which he also serves.

Yeager said he had enjoyed working with members of the Caltrain board, which he had chaired last year, and was glad to rejoin his colleagues and rail agency staff.

Among the accomplishments during his tenure as chair, Caltrain enjoyed dramatic ridership growth and began the first steps to set the railroad on a course to become a true rapid transit system by 2025.

The Caltrain board has nine members, with representatives from each of the three counties through which the rail service operates – San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara.

The Caltrain board meets the first Thursday of each month at 10 a.m. at its headquarters, 1250 San Carlos Ave. in San Carlos, two blocks from the train station.

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