Is San Francisco's New Transit Center a Waste?

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San Francisco opened the Salesforce Transit Center in 2019, and currently serves buses only. It does not connect to local transit trains and will not serve longer-distance trains until at least 2033. Does that make this station a failure? Or maybe it's forward-thinking?

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https://hal.science/hal-02098131/docu...

https://sfocii.org/sites/default/file... Transbay Redevelopment Plan Area Basemap for Website (002).pdf

https://sfocii.org/sites/default/file... Redevelopment Project Map_current_06.15.22.pdf

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https://link21program.org/en/program/...

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