Guest Editorial: SF Needs to Get Serious About Connecting Caltrain | Streetsblog San Francisco

Guest Editorial: SF Needs to Get Serious About Connecting Caltrain | Streetsblog San Francisco

Despite the renderings, the Transbay Transit Center won't have trains without a big push by City Hall. Image from Transbay Center website The new Transbay Transit Center (TTC) is scheduled for completion in 2017. The foundation of the TTC, and the thing that makes it such an improvement over the old Transbay bus terminal it's replacing, is its underground train station for Caltrain and High Speed Rail. It will bring Caltrain, the connection between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, into close proximity with five Muni and four BART lines and over 40 bus connections, not to mention San Francisco's huge downtown employment center. The TTC should one day be the most important transit hub outside of New York City—a Grand Central Station of the West. Now imagine that Grand Central without any trains. That's what San Francisco will have if it doesn't get working soon on a 1.3 mile downtown rail extension (DTX),

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