Transbay Transit Center

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TJPA was created in 2001 as a collaboration of Bay Area government and transportation agencies to design, build, operate, and maintain the new Transbay Transit Center, which will replace the existing Transbay Terminal that serves local, regional, and intercity bus transit. Its Board of Directors is composed of representatives from the City and County of San Francisco, including the San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI), the Office of the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors; the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit); and the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board-Caltrain, composed of the City and County of San Francisco, the San Mateo County Transit District, and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. The Transbay Transit Center will replace the Transbay Terminal with a new multimodal transportation center and centralize the region's transportation network by accommodating nine transportation systems under one roof, as well as California High Speed Rail and an underground pedestrian connection to the Embarcadero BART/Muni station. The project consists of three components: Replacing the outdated Transbay Terminal with a modern transit hub consisting of one above-grade bus level, ground-floor, concourse, and two below-grade rail levels serving Caltrain and future California High Speed Rail Extending the Caltrain rail line from its current terminus 1.3 miles into the heart of the Financial District, including a provision for future California High Speed Rail (Caltrain Downtown Extension Program) Redeveloping the area surrounding the Transbay Transit Center with 2,600 new homes (35% affordable), parks, and a retail main street The project is being developed in two phases. Phase 1 includes the Transit Center building and the below-grade rail levels, along with a new bus ramp connecting the Transit Center to a new off-site bus storage facility and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Phase 2 includes the Caltrain Downtown Extension Program. A Temporary Terminal serves existing bus passengers (AC Transit, WestCAT, MUNI, Golden Gate Transit, SamTrans, and Greyhound) while the new transit center is under construction. A complementary transit tower will be built adjacent to the Transit Center and will provide additional financing for the project.

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