BART TO SAN JOSE PROJECT LOOKS TO GET MAJOR FUNDING
San Jose - Plans to extend BART service into San Jose and Santa Clara may get a big boost today. The California Transportation Commission could allocate an additional $239 million to the $6.1 billion project.
Still, BART needs millions more before it can break ground on the roughly $6 billion dollar rail-line extension into the South Bay. Santa Clara County voters in November will decide on a one-eighth cent sales tax measure that would pay for maintenance of the BART extension.
Carl Guardino of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group is helping BART push through a ballot measure in November providing money for the project. He says if the funding is approved today, it could put BART on track to build the extension by 2017.
If the measure is approved, the federal government could allocate an additional $750 million to the project.
