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BART, Muni Metro and Ferries

Has anyone proposed connecting the new Transbay Terminal to Embarcadero BART/MUNI station (the terminal won't even be served by the Central Subway, if indeed it is ever built) and/or the Ferry Building, either by an underground airport-style people mover or a moving walkway? Bayberrylane 20:12, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Older plans included a pedestrian tunnel to Embarcadero Station, but more recent documents I've seen have not mentioned anything about such a tunnel. I've never heard anything about connecting to the Ferry Building. WildCowboy 00:54, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Attempts to defund Transbay Terminal project

I don't believe this section is fair to CAHSR. Kopp's priority is to find money to build the whole system; finding money to help build the Transbay Terminal is secondary to him. If he cannot find money to build the whole system, then help building the train box with the HSR money is moot. --Will74205 (talk) 20:47, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree, it's not neutral at all. I would agree that the incident merits a citation on this article; however, context and neutrality should be aim. It should also be measured with the article itself.--Track Legs (talk) 06:11, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Closure and reopening Section 3.1.2

This is not correct:

"The Temporary Transbay Terminal initially ceased operations on August 12, 2018, with the opening of the new Salesforce Transit Center, only to be reopened weeks later, on September 25, 2018..."

The Transbay Terminal initially began operations on August 12, 2018 and the closure was announced on September 25, 2018^[1] so instead of reopening on September 25, 2019 it closed Temporarily. It is now scheduled to reopen on July 1, 2019^[2] I thought that this was vandalism but can't locate a correct version in the history.TSpot-SF (talk) 07:40, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Huh? That sentence is about the temporary terminal (which did in fact reopen on September 25, 2018), not the new terminal. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 07:44, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing that out to me my mistake. Being that this is an article about the Transbay Terminal and not the Temporary structure it seems like this should be a section regarding the Terminal closure itself as that is the more newsworthy item. Rather than the Temporary Transbay Terminal because it will soon be demolished and the whole section on it will be not as germane to the subject article.

The second half of this paragraph starts to talk about the Transbay terminal and not the temporary structure. This is why I was confused as to the subject of this section.

In April 2019, repairs were finished and it was determined that the cause of the cracking was partly caused when crews welding the beams together skipped a crucial step in the process required by the building code that led to tiny, micro-cracks forming. Multiple inspections failed to notice the skipped step, and those micro-cracks grew into larger ones. no opening date has yet been determined.

Lastly there is now and opening date but the opening date is not for the Temporary Transbay Terminal but for the actual Transbay Terminal. I think you can see where the confusion can occur. The statement that the repairs were finished in April 2019 is also disputed. I believe from the TJPA press release in April it states that the repairs will not be done until June 2019, https://tjpa.org/uploads/2019/04/4.10.19-Update-on-Temporary-Closure-of-Salesforce-Transit-Center.pdf TSpot-SF (talk) 08:51, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "How to get around during Salesforce Transit Center's temporary closure in San Francisco". ABC7 San Francisco. 2018-09-26. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
^ "Transbay Program". Retrieved 2019-06-25.

[1] "How to get around during Salesforce Transit Center's temporary closure in San Francisco". ABC7 San Francisco. 2018-09-26. Retrieved 2019-06-25.

[2] "Transbay Program". Retrieved 2019-06-25.

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