Transbay Transit Center

Transbay Transit Center
Under construction on 1st Street in January 2017
Location	South of Mission Street from Second to Beale Streets
Owned by	TJPA
Tracks	6
Connections	AC Transit, BART (via pedestrian tunnel to Embarcadero ), Caltrain, Golden Gate Transit, Greyhound, Muni (via pedestrian tunnel to Embarcadero), SamTrans, WestCAT Lynx, Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach, Paratransit and California’s future High Speed Rail
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opening	Scheduled for 2017

The Transbay Transit Center is a transit station and neighborhood development project in downtown San Francisco that will serve the San Francisco Bay Area’s regional transportation system. It is governed by the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) and is currently under construction.

During the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 the former Transbay Terminal suffered structural damage and was in need of replacement. In November 1999 San Francisco voters adopted Proposition H declaring that Caltrain shall be extended downtown into a new regional intermodal transit station constructed to replace the former Transbay Terminal. To accomplish this, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) was founded in 2001.

The $4.5 billion project will replace the former Transbay Terminal at First and Mission streets in San Francisco with a modern regional transit station connecting eight Bay Area counties and the State of California.

The Transbay Transit Center broke ground on August 11, 2010 in the company of Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senator Barbara Boxer, Mayor Gavin Newsom and more. After breaking ground, the TJPA worked to demolish the preexisting structures including the bus ramps and the terminal structure. Demolition of the former San Francisco Transbay Terminal completed in September 2011, one year after the project broke ground.

Construction of the first phase and accompanying park is scheduled to be completed in late 2017.

The project includes three elements: the construction of the Transit Center, the extension of Caltrain from 4th and King to the future Transbay Transit Center, and the development of the surrounding neighborhood into a transit friendly community.

Phase 1 of the project is construction of a new multimodal, five-story Transit Center. The future Transit Center will incorporate nearly 100,000 square feet of retail , a 5.4 acre rooftop park, an extensive public arts program and bus ramps that will connect the Transit Center to a new off-site bus storage facility and the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The new facility will accommodate more than 100,000 passengers each weekday and up to 45 million people per year. Phase 1 broke ground in August 2010 and is on schedule to begin operations in late 2017. The bus storage facility will be below the lower deck of the Bay Bridge's western span's approach.