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New Public Transportation Center Set To Open In San Francisco

The city of San Francisco inaugurates this weekend a new multi-modal transportation center. The Transbay Transit Center cost more than $2 billion and will connect the city’s buses and BART subway system, and will have a terminal for a planned high-speed rail link to Los Angeles.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with San Francisco County Transportation Authority’s Executive Director Tilly Chang (@tilly_chang) about the center’s opening and its economic impact on the city.

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Construction of the Transbay Transit Center on 1st street in San Francisco. (Douglaswth/Wikimedia Commons)
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Construction of the Transbay Transit Center on 1st street in San Francisco. (Douglaswth/Wikimedia Commons)