“To me, this is about public trust,” said a BART board member.
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“The very commitment of federal dollars depends upon the deployment of that innovative single-bore design, so anyone who wants to propose something different should also figure out where an additional $2 billion will come from,” Liccardo said in a recent interview. VTA officials said this was new information to them. Still, they claim that reverting to the original twin-bore design would tack three years onto their timeline because the agency would have to update project plans to meet the latest construction and safety codes, reopen a complicated state and federal environmental clearance process and rebid the project.
“Every year of delay adds tremendously to the cost, and with a project of this size that’s hundreds of millions of dollars,” Liccardo said.the largest infrastructure project