Alum Rock Transit Center (or simply Alum Rock Station) is an at-grade

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center located at the intersection of South Capitol Avenue and Nuestra Castillo Court in the Alum Rock district of

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. 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

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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

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route which offers service south to the

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or west to

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, and the Palo Alto Transit Center.

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