{"id":2263,"date":"2010-08-12T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2010-08-12T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T23:25:23","slug":"san-francisco-breaks-ground-on-first-us-high-speed-rail-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2263\/san-francisco-breaks-ground-on-first-us-high-speed-rail-station\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Breaks Ground <br>on First US High-Speed Rail Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2265\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2265\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2265\" title=\"speedrail-12_std\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-12_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-12_std.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-12_std-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Barbara Boxer, Rep. George Miller, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly and other dignitaries, participated yesterday in a groundbreaking ceremony of the first high-speed rail station in the United States. Photos by Michael J. Costa.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>From Singer Associates<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>August 12, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Federal, State and local officials joined together yesterday with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) and their honored guests to officially break ground on the Transbay Transit Center \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, in breaking ground on the Transbay   Transit   Center, we are opening a new chapter in that history of progress,\u201d Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWe are coming together to create jobs and revitalize our economy, and we are laying the first building blocks of a new \u2018Grand Central Station of the West.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2264\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2264\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2264\" title=\"speedrail-19_std\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-19_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-19_std.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-19_std-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The project is estimated to create more than 48,000 jobs in its first phase of construction, which will last seven years.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is one of the most important and transformational public transportation projects in America. Once the dust has settled, San   Francisco\u2019s skyline will be transformed \u2013 as will transportation, housing, and employment choices for people across the Bay area and beyond,\u201d 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2268\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2268\" title=\"speedrail-16_std\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-16_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-16_std.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-16_std-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a historic day for San Francisco and for the entire State,&#8221; said Mayor Newsom. &#8220;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&#8217;s vision of leading the nation as a transit-first City and a hub of a modern High-Speed Rail system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2267\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2267\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2267\" title=\"speedrail-6_std\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-6_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-6_std.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-6_std-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Gavin Newsom<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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.\u00a0 The new one million square foot Transbay Transit Center will serve as San Francisco\u2019s next landmark and will feature a 5.4-acre public park on the roof of the Transit Center.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d said Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr., Chairman of the TJPA Board. \u201cThis is a moment in history to be remembered. While we break ground on this significant achievement, we must be proud of the work we\u2019ve done and for the foundation built by those who came before us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday 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,\u201d said Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan, Executive Director, TJPA.\u00a0 \u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new Transbay Transit  Center is scheduled to open in August 2017.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transbaycenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.transbaycenter.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2266\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2266\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2266\" title=\"speedrail-5_std\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-5_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-5_std.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-5_std-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-5_std-290x215.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood (right) with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Boxer.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2269\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2269\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2269\" title=\"speedrail-17_std\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-17_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-17_std.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2010\/08\/speedrail-17_std-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Pelosi celebrates the Transbay Transit Center groundbreaking with labor organizer Leroy King<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project is estimated to create more than 48,000 jobs in its first phase of construction, which will last seven years.  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