{"id":47980,"date":"2024-03-08T13:16:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweet-pascal.52-27-215-206.plesk.page\/east-san-jose-to-get-long-overdue-light-rail-extension\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T13:16:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:16:41","slug":"east-san-jose-to-get-long-overdue-light-rail-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/east-san-jose-to-get-long-overdue-light-rail-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"East San Jose to get long overdue light rail extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Bay transit leaders have approved a major contract to get construction underway on a long-planned light rail extension project in East San Jose. The VTA board of directors on Thursday unanimously approved awarding a $437 million construction contract to a joint venture of two companies to build the Eastridge to BART Regional Connector. The 2.4-mile project will create an elevated track along East Capitol Expressway from a new ground level station at VTA\u2019s revamped Eastridge Transit Center north to a new elevated station at Story Road, and on to the Alum Rock Station, offering a link to the Milpitas&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/east-san-jose-to-get-long-overdue-light-rail-extension-vta-bart-connector-public-transit\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Bay transit leaders have approved a major contract to get construction underway on a long-planned light rail extension project in East San Jose. The VTA board of directors on Thursday unanimously approved awarding a $437 million construction contract to a joint venture of two companies to build the Eastridge to BART Regional Connector. The &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":47979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-47980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}