{"id":51707,"date":"2024-06-25T17:14:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T00:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-bart-expansion-needs-federal-funding-to-finish-the-job\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T17:14:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T00:14:32","slug":"san-jose-bart-expansion-needs-federal-funding-to-finish-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-bart-expansion-needs-federal-funding-to-finish-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose BART expansion needs federal funding to finish the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction workers broke ground on BART\u2019s expansion in Santa Clara this week, and officials are banking on federal funding to help finish the job. Santa Clara County Supervisor and VTA Board Chair Cindy Chavez and other labor leaders urged the Federal Transportation Agency on Tuesday to approve VTA\u2019s $6.2 billion funding request to support the BART expansion into Silicon Valley, which would cover just under half of the public transit project\u2019s total $12.75 billion cost. Chavez said the federal funding will be announced \u201cany day now,\u201d and that any less than the full amount threatens VTA\u2019s ability to finish the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-bart-expansion-needs-federal-funding-to-finish-the-job-vta-public-transit-transportation\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction workers broke ground on BART\u2019s expansion in Santa Clara this week, and officials are banking on federal funding to help finish the job. Santa Clara County Supervisor and VTA Board Chair Cindy Chavez and other labor leaders urged the Federal Transportation Agency on Tuesday to approve VTA\u2019s $6.2 billion funding request to support the &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":51708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51707","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=51707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}