Beginning the week of February 21, 2011 there will be two restrooms available at the Temporary Terminal for AC Transit and WestCat passengers. The restrooms will be available Monday – Friday from 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM. AC Transit and WestCat passengers that wish to use the restrooms may request that a Linc security officer unlock the restroom door after demonstrating that they are a ticketed passenger.

Additionally, eight new benches have been added to the Temporary Terminal, providing extra seating for passengers.

On Saturday, December 11, 2010, AC Transit moved its buses into the fully built-out Temporary Terminal. All AC Transit buses will now pick-up and drop-off passengers inside the Temporary Terminal site. Muni, Golden Gate Transit and SamTrans will continue to operate on the perimeter.

New passenger islands have been constructed on Beale and Main streets to enable Muni operations access to these pick-up and drop-off islands. Please check this webpage for updates on this move.

At this time, all other lines will remain the same, unless posted otherwise.

If you have additional questions about the Temporary Terminal, please email info@temporaryterminal.org.

Today Federal, State and local officials joined together with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) and their honored guests to officially break ground on the Transbay Transit Center—the northern terminus for the California High-Speed Rail system and a multi-modal facility that will accommodate eleven transit operators and serve more than 45 million passengers a year.

“Today, in breaking ground on the Transbay Transit Center, we are opening a new chapter in that history of progress,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. “We are coming together to create jobs and revitalize our economy, and we are laying the first building blocks of a new ‘Grand Central Station of the West.’”

The project is estimated to create more than 48,000 jobs in its first phase of construction, which will last seven years. These jobs include the people who will design, build and operate the facility, the manufacturing jobs created by the materials being utilized in the facility and the businesses providing consumer goods and services to workers and the passengers utilizing the Transit Center.

“This is one of the most important and transformational public transportation projects in America.

Once the dust has settled, San Francisco’s skyline will be transformed—as will transportation, housing, and employment choices for people across the Bay area and beyond,” said United States Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Railroad Administration are proud to contribute to the first phase of this effort.”

The full Phase 1 (Transit Center) and Phase 2 (Downtown Rail Extension) project and build out of the Redevelopment Plan will also increase the gross regional product in the Bay Area by $80 billion.

“This is a historic day for San Francisco and for the entire State,” said Mayor Newsom. “History will write that High-Speed Rail and a new engine for job creation and economic growth in California began today, with the groundbreaking of this project. It is a culmination of decades of planning to fulfill our City’s vision of leading the nation as a transit-first City and a hub of a modern High-Speed Rail system.”

For more than 40 years, San Francisco has been planning for the replacement of the outdated and seismically deficient Transbay Terminal at First and Mission streets. The new one million square foot Transbay Transit Center will serve as San Francisco’s next landmark and will feature a 5.4-acre public park on the roof of the Transit Center.

The five-story Transit Center includes: one above-grade bus level, a ground floor entrance on Mission Street, concourse level, and two below-grade rail levels serving Caltrain and future California High-Speed Rail.

“We are very proud of what our facility will do for San Francisco, and we are equally proud of the fact that we will become the first new station on the High-Speed Rail system to move into construction,” said Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr., Chairman of the TJPA Board. “This is a moment in history to be remembered. While we break ground on this significant achievement, we must be proud of the work we’ve done and for the foundation built by those who came before us.”

The $4.2 billion Transbay Transit Center Project is funded by various funding partners including the Federal Government, the State of California, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the San Francisco County and San Mateo County Transportation Authorities and AC Transit, among others. The first phase of the program, which includes constructing the new Transit Center, is fully funded.

“Today we deliver to the public the first new High-Speed Rail station in the United States, the first modern regional bus station in more than 60 years, and after more than 100 years, a downtown San Francisco train station,” said Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan, Executive Director, TJPA. “This is truly an important time for our City and our State. We are making a real and lasting investment to improve our public infrastructure system while protecting our environment and creating new jobs.”

The new Transbay Transit Center is scheduled to open in August 2017.

For more information, visit www.transbaycenter.org

For more information about the Temporary Terminal, visit www.temporaryterminal.org

The Transbay Temporary Terminal will serve AC Transit, Muni, Greyhound, WestCAT Lynx, Greyhound, SamTrans and Golden Gate Transit. The open air facility will serve AC Transit, Greyhound and WestCAT Lynx on the inside of the site and Muni, Golden Gate Transit and SamTrans on the perimeter of the site.

“We are very excited about the opening of the Temporary Terminal as it allows us to move forward with constructing what will be one of the first High Speed Rail stations in the country,” said Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan, Executive Director of the TJPA. “The Temporary Terminal will serve all of the current transit riders who use the Transbay Terminal until the new Transit Center opens its doors in 2017.”

The Temporary Terminal is an open air facility and will feature real time electronic signage, 24-hour on-site security and overhead canopies to protect passengers while they wait. A full list of bus stops at the Temporary Terminal is available at www.temporaryterminal.org