Is San Francisco’s New Transit Center a Waste?

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San Francisco opened the Salesforce Transit Center in 2019, and currently serves buses only. It does not connect to local transit trains and will not serve longer-distance trains until at least 2033. Does that make this station a failure? Or maybe it’s forward-thinking?

Resources on this topic:
https://www.tjpa.org/

https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot/get-involved/hou/real-plan/011223-salesforce.pdf

https://hal.science/hal-02098131/document

https://sfocii.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/2022 Transbay Redevelopment Plan Area Basemap for Website (002).pdf

https://sfocii.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/TB Redevelopment Project Map_current_06.15.22.pdf

https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/agendaitems/2014/12-2-14 Item 15 T-Third Phase 3 Concept Study.pdf

https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/report-the-portal-project-advances-in-california/

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/transit/san-francisco-high-speed-rail-connection-boosted-by-billions/article_5caf2088-0f23-11ef-91d9-934fe4357d4c.html

https://blog.bayareametro.gov/posts/portal-project-celebrates-338-billion-federal-transit-administration-funding

https://www.capitolcorridor.org/route-map/

https://sfyimby.com/2023/10/ceqa-approval-for-san-francisco-transbay-downtown-rail-extension.html

https://link21program.org/en/program/concepts

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