Despite the challenges, HSR Authority staff are hopeful that President “Amtrak Joe” Biden’s administration will prioritize funding the project.

A bill that would’ve offered a lifeline to behind-schedule projects—like Google’s San Jose mega-campus—never made it to the governor’s desk.

The governor announced his pick of Teresa Alvarado, the San Jose director of SPUR since 2016, in a news release this week.

As part of its quest to raise downtown building heights, San Jose will consider a unique funding proposal to offset costs to the airline industry.