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- From: adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt)
- Subject: SPUR meeting on SF Transbay Terminal
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.234141.29792@ntmtv>
- Summary: Downtown SF rail access threatened
- Keywords: CalTrain extension Transbay Terminal
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- Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:41:41 GMT
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- SPUR (San Francisco Planning & Urban Research) will be having
- a "brown-bag lunch style" meeting on the "Fate of the Transbay
- Terminal" and its connector ramps. The meeting is free and is
- open to the public. There will be several speakers and mayor
- Frank Jordan's transportation aide, Stewart Sunshine, will be
- among them.
-
- There are some very serious plans by both the City of San Francisco
- and Caltrans to demolish and/or redevelop the Transbay Terminal.
- This building is a train station (now being used for buses only)
- that is ideally situated and constructed to serve as the terminus
- for one or more of the following:
-
- 1. CalTrain's long-awaited, and much-needed downtown San
- Francisco extension. Using this structure and its ramps
- should be significantly cheaper than any of the "official"
- alternatives that have been studied to date.
-
- 2. BayLink. A bold proposal put forth a little over a
- year ago by the Modern Transit Society (MTS) to restore
- train service to the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge using light
- rail equipment. This proposal envisioned services
- running from the Transbay Terminal (via the existing
- connector ramp infrastructure) to the Bay Bridge and
- fanning out into various east bay lines. Much of this
- proposal involves rebuilding and/or reusing historical
- rights of way. Also, joint-use of the bridge tracks
- by high speed inter-city trains to get into and out of
- San Francisco was also suggested.
-
- 3. The CalSpeed High Speed Rail service currently being
- studied. This is an estimated $9 billion TGV-type rail
- service connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles with
- 200mph trains via SFO, San Jose, Fresno and Modesto with
- end-to-end travel times of less than 3 hours.
-
- Statewide as well as local transit advocacy and environmental groups
- are *very* concerned that San Francisco will lose an invaluable
- resource that will be key to bringing excellent transit and inter-
- city rail connections into the heart of its financial district if
- the Transbay Terminal is destroyed. Without the Transbay Terminal
- and its associated connector ramp infrastructure, bringing any of
- the above-mentioned services downtown to connect with Muni and BART
- via an underground pedestrian passageway may prove technically
- and/or politically and/or financially prohibitive/impossible...
-
- The meeting time and place:
-
- Wednesday, January 27th, 12:30 PM
- SPUR
- 312 Sutter Street, Suite 500
- San Francisco, CA
-
- For more information call SPUR at (415) 781-8726.
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- Adrian Brandt (415) 940-2379
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