A panel of subway experts has endorsed the Valley Transportation Authority’s “single-bore” design for the BART extension to San Jose, concluding a months-long independent review o…
A panel of subway experts has endorsed the Valley Transportation Authority’s “single-bore” design for the BART extension to San Jose, concluding a months-long independent review of the contentious plan to dig a massive tunnel through downtown.
who could give a clear-eyed view on the agency’s BART project in an attempt to satisfy critics who say the single-bore design is leading to ballooning cost estimates and will hamper passenger access. This week the VTA said the funding needs of the project have risen by 35% to $9.3 billion with a start a 2034 date with a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall.
The experts said their conclusions were based on international and domestic cost trends along with the experts’ decades of experience in the field. But they faced pushback from two board members after acknowledging that the study did little examination of extensive documents underlying the agency’sto nix a more standard tunneling method known as twin-bore in favor of a more innovative, but potentially risky, tunnel design known as single bore.
One transit expert, Donald Richards, told the board Thursday evening that his understanding of the study was to look “mainly at the technical aspects.”The six-mile, four-station BART extension, managed by the VTA, is slated to be the largest infrastructure project in Santa Clara County history. The project was approved by nearly 71% of Santa Clara County voters in 2000.
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