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Originally Posted by SFBuildings888
Maybe it would have been better if the Transit Center was smaller so they could have built a few more high rise on that site with more housing. Maybe I’m wrong.
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From when this was first proposed, my own "humble" opinion has been that it's a waste of money and what we should have done is build a grander terminal at 4th & Townsend for a lot less. We might also have needed to enlarge the capacity of the coming Central Subway by building longer station platforms but this project (along with the existing T-line) would have been able to get people from the Market St. area to such a terminal quite expeditiously. And a bonus would have been that all the land occupied by the terminal we did build would have been available for towers, whether commercial or residential.
The Mission Bay, far SOMA area is becoming more and more a part of "downtown" as anyone could have predicted and many did. I don't really see the advantages of a terminal on Mission St, especially since the one we did build may not have trains running to it for decades whereas one at 4th and Townsend would have them NOW.
But it's all water over the dam. We have the world's grandest bus station and she's a beaut.