Fremont Detour at Transbay Terminal

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02/07/2004

San Francisco-bound bus riders are adjusting to a detour taking AC Transit’s Transbay service onto the city’s South-of-Market streets for the next several months.

This ‘temporary’ detour will let Caltrans replace the current Fremont Street off-ramp with a new structure. The new structure moves automotive traffic from the span down to city streets. Unlike the familiar exit, which has directed transit into the terminal since the early 1960s, the new ramp will completely bypass the terminal’s bus deck.

During construction, buses exit the upper deck to the left – using the Harrison Street off-ramp into Fremont Street. From street-level, a new buses-only up-ramp was built specifically to direct transit to the terminal’s bus deck.

Once Caltrans has rebuilt the exit ramp for autos, it plans to build a new elevated roadway to once again separate transit service from the crowded South-of-Market streets. This transition, according to Caltrans – part of the rebuilding of the western approach to the Bay Bridge – is slated for completion in 2005.

Bus stops are still on the bus-deck level of the Transbay Terminal, where nothing else has changed.