{"id":57951,"date":"2025-06-27T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/silicon-valley-bart-project-gets-millions-in-funding-but-still-short\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:09:07","slug":"silicon-valley-bart-project-gets-millions-in-funding-but-still-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/silicon-valley-bart-project-gets-millions-in-funding-but-still-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley BART project gets millions in funding, but still short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VTA is finding ways to patch the Silicon Valley BART expansion\u2019s nearly $1 billion budget gap, from extra state funding to restructuring expensive contracts. The California Transportation Commission awarded two grants to the BART expansion project on Thursday and Friday, totaling about $100 million. At the same time, the VTA board of directors has approved recommendations to look for a different contractor to bore the expansion\u2019s 5-mile tunnel, hoping to save on the expensive contract. While VTA representatives are excited about the funding, the public transit agency still needs to find millions in savings on the $12.75 billion project. Estimates&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/silicon-valley-bart-project-gets-millions-in-funding-but-still-short\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VTA is finding ways to patch the Silicon Valley BART expansion\u2019s nearly $1 billion budget gap, from extra state funding to restructuring expensive contracts. The California Transportation Commission awarded two grants to the BART expansion project on Thursday and Friday, totaling about $100 million. At the same time, the VTA board of directors has approved &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57952,"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-57951","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\/57951","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=57951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}