What’s in a name? VTA asks residents to name its $76 million tunnel boring machine

While Mercury News readers dubbed the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s $76 million tunnel boring machine “Shai-Hulud,” after the sand worm creatures from “Dune,” the transit agency has its own idea — anointing the massive machine with a moniker after a prominent local woman.…

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