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Construction authority outlines cost spike, pivots to CMAR for Gold Line extension to Montclair
Summary
The Gold Line Construction Authority told the Montclair City Council the Pomona–Montclair segment faces higher-than-expected bids and will move to a CMAR contracting method to reduce risk and restart competition; the authority expects a contractor-guaranteed price by June 2027 and completion of the final segment by 2031.
Habib Balan, introduced to the Montclair City Council by the mayor as the authority’s representative, told the council the Gold Line light-rail project is a roughly $4 billion investment that will ultimately extend service to Montclair.
Balan said the authority’s internal independent cost estimate (ICE) for the remaining Los Angeles- and San Bernardino–area work was about $645 million, but a solicitation produced a single, sole-source bid that came in “significantly higher” — more than $1 billion. “To deal with this and understand why the bid came in so high, we decided to pivot to…
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