{"id":61035,"date":"2025-10-17T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/silicon-valley-transit-agency-picks-single-tunnel-for-bart-extension\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:30:16","slug":"silicon-valley-transit-agency-picks-single-tunnel-for-bart-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/silicon-valley-transit-agency-picks-single-tunnel-for-bart-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley transit agency picks single tunnel for BART extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley transit officials are moving forward with plans to dig a single tunnel and close their BART extension funding woes. The strategy is steeped with risk. After a fallout with the main contractor and scathing rebukes from BART officials, the VTA board of directors voted 8-1-3 to lock in on a new set of design, construction and delivery choices to help close a $700 million funding gap and trigger the full release of federal dollars promised for the extension. Board member and Santa Clara Councilmember Suds Jain \u2014 who expressed a lack of confidence in the plan \u2014 voted&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/silicon-valley-transit-agency-vta-picks-single-tunnel-for-bart-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley transit officials are moving forward with plans to dig a single tunnel and close their BART extension funding woes. The strategy is steeped with risk. After a fallout with the main contractor and scathing rebukes from BART officials, the VTA board of directors voted 8-1-3 to lock in on a new set of &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61036,"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-61035","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\/61035","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=61035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}