{"id":59614,"date":"2025-08-22T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/bart-voices-frustrations-about-lack-of-transparency-from-vta\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:30:16","slug":"bart-voices-frustrations-about-lack-of-transparency-from-vta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/bart-voices-frustrations-about-lack-of-transparency-from-vta\/","title":{"rendered":"BART voices frustrations about lack of transparency from VTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The partnership between\u00a0two Silicon Valley transit agencies\u00a0is\u00a0souring\u00a0amid accusations of a lack of communication involving the region\u2019s most significant expansion project. BART leaders say they\u2019re frustrated that VTA failed to share critical updates about the Silicon Valley expansion project before announcing them publicly, according to recent letter obtained by San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight. The two agencies are working together on a $12.75 billion, 6-mile BART expansion through Silicon Valley. VTA has been working to patch a nearly $1 billion funding gap in the project. The letter, from BART Assistant General Manager Shane Edwards to VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot, said VTA didn\u2019t&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/bart-voices-frustrations-about-lack-of-transparency-from-vta\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The partnership between\u00a0two Silicon Valley transit agencies\u00a0is\u00a0souring\u00a0amid accusations of a lack of communication involving the region\u2019s most significant expansion project. BART leaders say they\u2019re frustrated that VTA failed to share critical updates about the Silicon Valley expansion project before announcing them publicly, according to recent letter obtained by San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight. The two agencies are &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59615,"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-59614","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\/59614","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=59614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}