VTA BART expansion work to include minority-owned business [Video]

VTA has pledged to increase contracting opportunities for minority-owned businesses in its ongoing BART expansion into San Jose.

Sergio Lopez, mayor of Campbell and chair of VTA’s board of directors, signed the Equity in Infrastructure Project pledge on behalf of the agency Monday, alongside more than a dozen local government agencies. The VTA board unanimously approved the pledge last week. Lopez said the public transit agency is working with 72 disadvantaged business enterprises and 25 small businesses on the BART expansion to date. He said there will be more opportunities to engage local minority-owned businesses as the project progresses.

“Diversity is what drives our economic success in Silicon Valley,” Lopez told San Jose Spotlight. “I’m really proud that VTA can be a leader in this area and the board’s fully committed to supporting that work.”

In 2021, VTA pledged to diversify its contractors for the BART expansion but decreased its goal …