Under General Manager Carolyn Gonot, transit authority has repeatedly misled residents and even Board of Directors
The lack of transparency and the refusal to seriously address the soaring costs of the planned BART extension through San Jose indicate the need for leadership change at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
The cost increases cannot be blamed on Gonot. But she is responsible for the failure to promptly divulge them to the public and VTA board; theof the rapidly rising price tag; and the refusal to discuss contingency plans if the authority doesn’t receive funding it’s seeking from the federal government for half the project cost.
Johnson said his team “documented what some consider to be ‘a breach in transparency’ to the Board and the public, and in some instances communications that were misleading and/or dismissive of concerns that were raised related to the project.”That dismissiveness continued. As costs soared and the timeline stretched, critics’ concerns about the authority’s plan for tunneling under downtown San Jose gained more attention.
The VTA blog post objected the the central point of the article, that the transit agency didn’t have a backup plan in case it didn’t receive sufficient federal funding. In an email Thursday, Gonot’s media relations team said, on the one hand, that contingency planning is ongoing and, on the other hand, that a plan would be prepared for the board and the public “if, and only if, we do not obtain funding for the full project extension.
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