The following excerpts appeared in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin on May 28, 2026. To read the full article (may require subscription), click here.

Construction manager contract awarded to extend light-rail line from Pomona to Claremont – Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

A rendering of what the A Line station in Claremont would look like. (image courtesy of Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority)

By Steve Scauzillo

May 28, 2026

[excerpts]:

The last contractor needed for the 2.3-mile extension of the A Line light-rail from Pomona to Claremont — to begin preliminary construction work for the last leg that will bring the line to the eastern edge of Los Angeles County — was awarded a contract on Wednesday, May 27 by the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority.

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The team, a joint group with Skanska USA Civil West California District Inc., Stacy and Witbeck, Inc., and Herzog Contracting Corp., will look over the designs of the project being done by Parsons Transportation Group and come up with a construction plan and schedule from a construction point of view.

More importantly, the Skanska team will negotiate a full-on construction contract and offer a bid to the Construction Authority, expected by the Fall of 2027. If the price is within the Authority’s budget for the project, then the Skanska team will build the entire project. If not, the Construction Authority can reject it and find another construction contractor.

“The design team and the construction manager will work together for a year and a half. Then the construction manager will give us a bid. We will give it the thumbs up if we have sufficient funds for that,” said Habib Balian, CEO of the Construction Authority in an interview on Thursday, May 28.

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