{"id":57353,"date":"2025-06-09T13:30:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-bart-extension-faces-nearly-2-year-delay\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:30:34","slug":"san-jose-bart-extension-faces-nearly-2-year-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-bart-extension-faces-nearly-2-year-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose BART extension faces nearly 2-year delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley\u2019s long-awaited BART expansion could be delayed for another year and a half while officials consider cutting one of the project\u2019s largest contracts to save costs. VTA wants to look for a new contractor to bore the expansion\u2019s five-mile tunnel, after being unable to reach an agreement with the current contractor, Kiewit Shea Traylor. The public transit agency is looking to cut up to $1.2 billion from the expansion\u2019s total $12.75 billion cost, in order to receive a $5.1 billion grant from the Federal Transit Administration. Tom Maguire, VTA chief megaprojects delivery officer, said looking for a new contractor&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-vta-bart-public-transit-extension-faces-nearly-2-year-delay\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley\u2019s long-awaited BART expansion could be delayed for another year and a half while officials consider cutting one of the project\u2019s largest contracts to save costs. VTA wants to look for a new contractor to bore the expansion\u2019s five-mile tunnel, after being unable to reach an agreement with the current contractor, Kiewit Shea Traylor. &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57353","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}