“Transbay” – Back in the Transit Oriented Future

The new Transbay Transit Center will be built on the site of the former Transbay Terminal in downtown San Francisco and will serve eleven transportation systems. The new bus and rail facility will serve as San Francisco’s next landmark and will feature a 5.4-acre rooftop park. Construction of the new Transbay Transit Center (Phase I of Project) is scheduled to be complete in 2017, creating a new, 1 million square foot Transit Center with above-grade bus level, ground floor and concourse-level retail and foundations for two below-grade levels to serve Caltrain and future high-speed rail service to Los Angeles.

The Transbay Transit Center Project is a visionary transportation and housing project that transforms downtown San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area’s regional transportation system by creating a “Grand Central Station of the West” in the heart of a new transit-friendly neighborhood. 

The approximately $6 billion project will replace the former Transbay Terminal at First and Mission Streets in San Francisco with a modern regional transit hub connecting eight Bay Area counties and the State of California through 11 transit systems: AC Transit, BART, Caltrain, Golden Gate Transit, Greyhound, Muni, SamTrans, WestCAT Lynx, Amtrak, Paratransit and future High Speed Rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles/Anaheim.

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