{"id":2019,"date":"2025-07-10T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2026-08-01T20:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:11:32","slug":"time-for-vta-to-change-course-on-bart-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/time-for-vta-to-change-course-on-bart-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for VTA to Change Course on BART Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would you do? If you were on the Board of the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), and you saw $5B of your $12B budget just disappear, what would you do?<\/p>\n<p>Without $5B of federal government funding to burrow a massive BART underground tunnel system to connect East San Jose (Berryessa BART) with Diridon Station (Caltrain) in Downtown San Jose, VTA is at a crossroads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025Jul-support-PRT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full text<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would you do? If you were on the Board of the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), and you saw $5B of your $12B budget just disappear, what would you do? Without $5B of federal government funding to burrow a massive BART underground tunnel system to connect East San Jose (Berryessa BART) with Diridon Station (Caltrain) <a href=\"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/time-for-vta-to-change-course-on-bart-extension\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Time for VTA to Change Course on BART Extension<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milpitasprt.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}