East San Jose light rail extension

East San Jose light rail extension approved despite $122M in budget overruns

More than two decades in the making, the Eastridge to BART Regional Connector light rail extension got a unanimous stamp of approval from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority on Thursday to move forward.

But the 2.4-mile elevated light rail, which will run along Capitol Expressway from the Alum Rock light rail station to the Eastridge Transit Center, offering connection to the Milpitas BART station, comes with a higher price tag than officials budgeted for — $121 million more, to be exact.
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Currently, the only public transit connecting Alum Rock and Eastridge is a bus that takes approximately 11 minutes. The light rail is expected to cut that travel time more than in half, to just under five minutes.
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