Bay Area BART bailout tax plan goes off the rails
Efforts to craft a Bay Area transportation funding plan are coming off the rails as South Bay leaders make clear that they don’t want their constituents taxed for up to …
Valley Transportation Authority
Time to finish what we started with San Jose BART extension
Completing the BART system to the South Bay requires vision, commitment and persistence — as most transformative infrastructure projects that have created this nation and supported the economies of our …
VTA will keep blocking independent BART extension review
Later this year, Bay Area residents should learn whether the federal government will fund about half the cost of the $12.8 billion BART extension through San Jose. Until that happens, …
San Jose BART extension to receive $500 million in upcoming federal budget – The Mercury News
The San Jose BART extension project is getting a much needed $500 million boost from the federal government, transit officials announced Thursday afternoon. The six-mile, four-station extension that will run …
BART will get a decade of use out of cars meant for San Jose extension on VTA’s dime – The Mercury News
In yet another unintended consequence of the repeated delays facing San Jose’s BART extension, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is purchasing 48 rail cars for the South Bay that …
Key San Jose leaders call BART extension ‘municipal madness’
The five miles of tunneling for the BART extension from the Berryessa station through San Jose to Santa Clara will begin soon. A boring machine will tunnel 80 feet, roughly …
San Jose BART $12.8 billion extension should be scrutinized
As the price for the South Bay BART extension continues to soar, elected officials must decide whether they want to honestly evaluate the project or rubber-stamp it. In just the last …
Will VTA change its tunnel design for the San Jose BART extension after completing a new cost estimate?
With BART’s Silicon Valley extension expected to cost upwards of $12 billion, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is conducting a new cost analysis of a different approach — the …
What’s in a name? VTA asks residents to name its $76 million tunnel boring machine – The Mercury News
While Mercury News readers dubbed the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s $76 million tunnel boring machine “Shai-Hulud,” after the sand worm creatures from “Dune,” the transit agency has its own …
BART extension price tag balloons once again — this time by $600 million – The Mercury News
Despite the price tag more than doubling in size from its initial 2014 estimate, the San Jose BART extension is facing yet another cost increase — $600 million — and …