Mountain View Unit

Mountain View Unit is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison housing female offenders in Gatesville, Texas. The unit, with about 97 acres (39 ha) of land, is located 4 miles (6.4 km) north of central Gatesville on Farm to Market Road 215. The prison is located in a 45 minute driving distance from Waco. In addition to its other functions, Mountain View Unit houses the state's female death row inmates.

Death row offenders are housed separately from the rest of the prisoners in single-person cells measuring 60 square feet (5.6 m²), with each cell having a window. They do not have recreation individually. Some are allowed to watch television, though this is dependent upon agreeing to work for free, and all have a radio.

Karla Faye Tucker, executed February 3, 1998, was the first woman to be executed in Texas since 1863. The most recent female to be executed was Lisa Coleman, executed on September 17, 2014.

Among the better known death row offenders at Mountain View are Linda Carty, Brittany Holberg and Darlie Routier.

Mountain View

Mountain View may refer to any of the following places:

Canada

South Africa

United States of America

Mountain View (NJT station)

Mountain View, signed on the platform as Mountain View–Wayne, is a station maintained by New Jersey Transit in Wayne, New Jersey. The station is located on the Montclair-Boonton Line, a merge of the Boonton Line and Montclair Branch in 2002. Prior to the Montclair Connection in 2002, the station was served by the Boonton Line. The station maintains one high-level side platform for the lone revenue service track. The station is located on Erie Avenue, just off of U.S. Route 202 and New Jersey Route 23 in downtown Wayne. Since January 2008, Mountain View station is the second of two stations in Wayne, the other being the Wayne Route 23 Transit Center, a station off the Westbelt interchange. The station boasts 389 parking spaces on four different lots maintained by New Jersey Transit throughout Wayne. Bike lockers are also available.

The station is located in New Jersey Transit's ninth fare zone. Service southbound from the station terminates at Hoboken Terminal. Transfers at Newark Broad Street allow for travel to New York Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The station is served by one bus line, the No. 871, a former Morris County Metro Bus Line. Mountain View is accessible for handicapped persons under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. As of the July, 2014, five inbound (to Hoboken) trains stop at Mountain View on weekday mornings, while ten outbound trains (from Hoboken) stop on weekday afternoons/evenings. There is no weekend service to Mountain View, as all service terminates at Bay Street station in Montclair, New Jersey. However, during holidays, three of extra trains heading to Lake Hopatcong stop at Mountain View along with three heading to Hoboken Terminal. Trains continuing northbound next stop at Lincoln Park Station in its namesake town of Lincoln Park.

Downtown Mountain View Station

Downtown Mountain View Station is an intermodal passenger transportation station that serves the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail system, Caltrain commuter rail line, and numerous bus and shuttle routes. Downtown Mountain View is the northern terminus of the Mountain View-Winchester light rail line. The station house was rebuilt, in the early 2000s, using the style of a station house type (SP#18) built by the Southern Pacific in 1888.

Platforms and tracks

Connecting bus service

Photo gallery

"Mountain View. To San Francisco: 39 8/10 miles. Elevation 76 feet."

"Mountain View. To San Francisco: 39 8/10 miles. Elevation 76 feet."

Station from Centennial Plaza.

Station from Centennial Plaza.

Plaza seating area. VTA Light Rail train in background.

Plaza seating area. VTA Light Rail train in background.

References

External links

Media related to Downtown Mountain View station at Wikimedia Commons