Transbay Terminal

BayRail Alliance endorses MTC's San Francisco/Silicon Valley Corridor strategy


October 1, 2009 - 7:00pm

Information about the MTC's High Speed Rail strategy.

June 24, 2009
Will Kempton, Director
California Department of Transportation
1120 N St, PO Box 942873
Sacramento, CA 94273-0001

Dear Mr. Kempton:

For more than 25 years, BayRail Alliance has been a strong supporter of Caltrain service improvements on the Peninsula. We are also proud for our advocacy efforts on high speed rail especially during the early part of the decade.

We are writing to express our full support of the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Corridor Investment Strategy recommended by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. We support MTC's strategy because it is the best approach to fulfill the promise made to voters through last year's Proposition 1A and the intent set forth in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

BayRail applauds decision by TJPA to move Transbay train box project forward


June 20, 2009 - 8:00am

On June 11, The Transbay Joint Powers Authority voted unanimously to direct the architects to prepare plans for the train box as part of Phase 1 of the Transbay Transit Center project. The Phase 1 of the project includes the removal of the current terminal and the construction of a new terminal on the current site.

Prior to this proposal, TJPA planned to build the train box after the above-ground bus terminal is completed, largely due to funding constraints. However, the recent passage of the Prop 1A High Speed Rail bond and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided new funding opportunities to move this critical project forward.

BayRail Alliance meeting March 19 2009

SF Caltrain Downtown Extension/Transbay Terminal Update

Time/date:
Thursday, March 19, 2009
6-8:30 PM

Staff from the Transbay Joint Powers Authority will provide an update on the progress of the program to extend the Caltrain rail alignment for Caltrain and California High Speed Rail to a new Transbay Transit Center in downtown San Francisco.  Joining us will be Robert Beck and Bradford Townsend

Robert Beck, Senior Program Manager

Robert Beck is the Senior Program Manager with the TJPA.  With an engineering degree from Stanford University and a Masters in Business Administration from UC Berkeley, he is a licensed Mechanical and Civil Engineer.  Mr. Beck joined the TJPA from the San Francisco Department of Public Works where he was the Deputy Director of Engineering and City Engineer.  During his 18 years with Public Works and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, he oversaw a wide range of major capital projects and programs for the City and County of San Francisco. 

Bradford Townsend

Mr. Townsend is a Senior Associate with Hatch Mott MacDonald and is serving as the Project Manager for the Program Management/Program Controls (PMPC) on the Transbay Transit Center Program. Mr. Townsend has 32 years of construction and engineering design experience involving tunnels, heavy civil, rail and transit, highway and commercial building experience that includes design, cost estimating and construction services. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and has worked on major transportation infrastructure projects world wide. Prior to working on the TJPA program Mr. Townsend was Deputy Chief Director of Engineering for the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation.

 

Mr. Townsend is a recognized author of numerous tunneling papers and articles and serves on committees and working groups for both the UCA of SME North American Tunnelling Conference and ITA-AITES Working Group Nr. 19 Conventional Tunneling which is focused on "Contractual Practices" and "Monitoring" of mined excavations and stability.

 

 

 

6 PM - 6:45 PM  order your own meal, cafeteria style, at Panera Bread. We will be seated in the back area.

6:45 PM  Program starts

Location:
Panera Bread
301 King Street (across the street from the 4th & King Caltrain stop, next to Muni light rail)
San Francisco

SF Transit Center District Plan

Time/date: July 25, 2007 6:30-8:30 pm

Source: San Francisco Planning Department

1st public workshop of many to come on the Transit Center District Plan. This is focused on the southern portion of downtown San Francisco, with a particular focus on the vicinity of the Transbay Transit Center. Building on the recently adopted Transbay Redevelopment Plan as well as the 1985 Downtown Plan, this effort will examine the future of Downtown's new core. This workshop will introduce the planning effort and initial objectives and seek public input on the scope of analysis and issues the planning department should consider. location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission St. between 3rd and 4th Streets San Francisco More information at transitcenter.sfplanning.org or contact Joshua Switzky at joshua.switzky@sfgov.org or call 415.575.6815

SF Community Meeting on Transbay Terminal Plans

Time/date: Monday, March 26, 2007 6:30 PM

Source: Transbay Joint Powers Authority

Please Join Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, members of the Transbay Joint
Powers Authority (TJPA) and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to
learn more about the plans underway to build the new Transbay Transit
Center.

This new Transit Center will replace the current Transbay bus
terminal at First and Mission streets in downtown San Francisco
with a Grand Central Station of the West.  The project will:

* Create a central downtown Transit Center that will connect the
San Francisco Bay Area and the State through eight transit systems:
AC Transit, BART, Caltrain, Golden Gate Transit, Greyhound, MUNI
(including paratransit for seniors and the disable), SamTrans and
future High-Speed Rail.

* Extend the Caltrain rail line underground from Fourth and King
streets into the new Transit Center

* Build a vibrant new neighborhood surrounding the Transit Center
with 3,400 homes (35% affordable)

For more information please visit http://www.transbaycenter.org

Community Meeting:
6:30 pm, Monday, March 26, 2007

West Bay Conference Center
1290 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94115

Accessible by MUNI bus lines 22 and 31

The West Bay Conference Center is wheelchair accessible.

To request real time captioning, a sign language interpreter or
other accommodations, please contact Heather Barber at the TJPA
at (415) 597-4620 or <info@transbaycenter.org>.

Transbay Citizens Advisory Committee mtg

Time/date: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2007 5:30 PM

Source: San Francisco Redevelopment Agency

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, 2nd Floor Conference Room
San Francisco, CA 94103

agenda: Presentation by SFRA Staff of Market-Rate and Affordable Housing Program for Zone One of the Transbay Redevelopment Project Area (60 min)

June 15, 2004

June 15, 2004 — In an exhausting hearing that ended past 3 a.m. the next day, BayRail Alliance and other groups succeed in getting the SF Board of Supervisors to unanimously uphold the Transbay EIR against appeals filed by some neighborhood interests and a private developer.

June 7, 2005

June 7, 2005 — BayRail Alliance, working with TRANSDEF, files a “friend of the court” (amicus) brief along with the Sierra Club, TRAC, San Francisco Tomorrow, and TALC, requesting speedy appeal of a ruling on the Transbay Terminal project’s Environmental Impact Report (EIR). A ruling by a judge in favor of private developer Jack Myers has halted preliminary planning and engineering for the project. The groups ask the appeals court to stay (halt) the judge’s order pending appeal. This succeeds in producing a speedy stay of the order, allowing planning and engineering for the Transbay Project to proceed. Myers later drops the appeal after the City of San Francisco agrees to pay $34 million to acquire his property through eminent domain.
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