San Jose - Transportation & Infrastructure

The BART extension into downtown San Jose has hit another awkward moment after San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and officials with the Valley Transportation Authority, which is overseeing the project, were caught trying to keep an estimated $2 billion price increase on the project a secret.

As part of his $5.8 trillion dollar budget proposal, President Joe Biden is laying aside $200 million additional dollars to help get phase two of the extension done.

While the Valley Transportation Authority says the San Jose BART extension won’t be completed until 2030, the feds says it’s going to take until 2034, and a battle is looming over the project’s underground boring.

BART riders who get on and off at the Warm Springs/South Fremont station will no longer have to make take an arduous, indirect trek around the nearby Union Pacific railroad tracks.

There is movement on BART's extension to San Jose, and eminent domain may soon be at play in a few areas of the city to make way for BART to reach Diridon Station and eventually the city of Santa Clara.

Bay Area bicyclists and pedestrians in Palo Alto now have a fancy new bridge to keep them out of harm’s way as they travel over Highway 101 from West Bayshore Road landing to East Bayshore Road landing.

To help deal with parking congestion, the airport has laughed a new, online parking reservation system for Economy Lot 1, one of its long-term parking lots near Terminal A.

Train noise in San Jose and other South Bay cities has been a problem for years, with residents battling railroad companies and regulations over train horns at the numerous street-level crossings.

Federal transportation officials now say that the price tag for BART’s new downtown San Jose extension will be higher than what local transit officials estimate.

New water restrictions appear to be coming to around a million households in the South Bay, and that includes steep fines for people who use too much.

All the recently approved plans to grow the San Jose skyline taller may put a huge financial toll on San Jose Mineta International Airport, and the airlines that serve the facility due to federal regulations about tall buildings near airports.

Development plans are underway all across downtown San Jose, and that includes directly next to Diridon Station, which serves Caltrain, Amtrak, and other rail lines including a future new BART stop.

Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority (VTA) light-rail trains could be back up and running as early as this weekend after service was abruptly halted following a deadly mass shooting at the Guadalupe VTA rail yard near downtown San Jose on May 26th.

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), which was rocked a few months ago by a disgruntled employee’s deadly shooting spree, is now investigating claims of management hostility and harassment inside the agency’s information technologies department.

Getting from one corner of Santa Clara County to the other will be a lot easier if plans for a new "bicycle superhighway" come to a reality.

Anderson Dam and Reservoir are about to undergo a massive reconstruction project that will take a decade to complete. That means the Valley Water District will have to drain Santa Clara County’s largest reservoir and look to new sources for water storage just as the state sinks back into serious drought conditions. 

Santa Clara County's Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is expected to receive $20 million dollars in state funds in response to the late-May mass shooting that left nine VTA workers dead.

The City of San Jose is facing a looming deadline from the feds to come up with a plan to clean up a massive homeless camp near Mineta San Jose International Airport, which sits under one of the landing paths.

On Tuesday, the Santa Clara Valley Water District (or Valley Water) announced a nearly 10% water-rate hike for San Jose Municipal Water users. Set to take effect on July 1, Valley Water said the price increase is in response to California's deepening drought, as well as an effort to fund water infrastructure projects.

Riders of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority transit system are having to make do without real-time arrival information this week, as the agency has dealt with technology disruptions reportedly due to a cyberattack.

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is facing $16,200 in fines for COVID-19 safety violations, five months after a bus driver died of the illness.

Plans have been in the works for the last three years to build what would become one of the Bay Area’s biggest dams. But now, after a huge price increase, the much-anticipated project could be taking some big steps backward.