A bevy of Bay Area public transit projects are among the recipients of $690 million in statewide spending announced by Gov. Newsom.
One of the largest local funding packages is a $46.6 million allocation to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority's"Eastridge to BART Regional Connector."
The five-year project, for which planning started in the mid-1990s, is scheduled to be complete in 2028 and also includes two new light rail stations.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter. "The congested transit-dependent neighborhoods of East San Jose are all classified as low-income communities, and these residents will be able to travel on light rail through some of the Bay Area's most congested corridors to major regional job centers," Omishakin said.
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