“I’m sure you caught the part in the federal announcement where they assert the project cost ‘is expected to be $9.148 billion.’ Can we ask them to revise that language??”
— San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, in an Oct. 25 text message to two Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority officials, urging them to ask the Federal Transit Administration to strike the new price estimate from a news release adding $2 billion to the projected cost of the BART extension to downtown San Jose.