Transbay Transit Center Nearing Finish


Line World Class Team in Sprint to Deliver Landmark New Transportation Center in


Downtown San Francisco


Stretching over four city blocks, the Transbay Transit Center is topped by a 5.4-acre rooftop park. Photo by Multivista Construction Documentation, courtesy of TJPA.


By Carol Eaton


built in the western U.S. – the state-of- the-art, multi-modal Transbay Transit Center in downtown San Francisco – the project is sprinting towards completion by late 2017, with bus service to begin in spring of 2018. Dubbed the “Grand Central


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Station of the West,” the $2.259 billion Transbay Transit Center project represents the first major phase of three interconnected elements in the overall Transbay program. Once rail service is


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early nine years after construction began on one of the largest transit projects ever


incorporated in the next phase, it will connect eight counties and 11 transit systems including California High Speed Rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Te Transit Center will serve about 100,000 bus and rail passengers daily and up to 45 million each year.


Centerpiece of New Neighborhood


Stretching over four city blocks


along Mission Street in the heart of a new transit-friendly area, the 1 million-sq.-ft., five-story Transbay Transit Center replaces the original Transbay Terminal built in 1939. Te project includes one above-grade bus


level, ground-floor and concourse-level retail, foundations for two below- grade rail levels, a 5.4-acre rooftop park, and an elevated bus ramp that directly connects to the San Francisco- Oakland Bay Bridge. Architectural highlights of the


iconic structure include dramatic light columns that bring natural light and sweeping views from the roof to all levels, with the largest one forming the central element of the Center’s 35-ft.-tall “grand hall.” Te distinctive, geometrical pattern of the new Transit Center’s undulating spun cast steel exterior framework “floats” above the street on angled steel columns, and


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