As the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority works to close a roughly $1 billion funding gap for the BART extension project, BART is accusing VTA of violating a 24-year-old agreement between the transit agencies.

The allegations, along with other concerns about transparency, has prompted one VTA board member to call for a change in leadership on the project.

Shane Edwards, BART’s assistant general manager of operations, told VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot that the transit agency is “gravely concerned with VTA’s failure to provide prior notice” of two recent developments with the project, according to an Aug. 15 letter obtained by this news organization.

Edwards alleged that VTA failed to alert BART before sending out a press release on Aug. 11 about a cost analysis of an altern

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