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Bechtel is also participating in the building of London's Crossrail, a $24 billion project that will connect commuter towns east and west of London and is intended to serve an estimated 200 million people a year upon completion. As of June 2015, the project is 65% complete.
History of Bay Area Rapid Transit. Bay Area Rapid Transit, widely known by the acronym BART, is the main rail transportation system for the San Francisco Bay Area. It was envisioned as early as 1946 but the construction of the original system began in the 1960s.
Pacific-Union Club. The Pacific-Union Club is a social club located at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California, at the top of Nob Hill. It is a well known club of the West Coast, [citation needed] clubs in the United States. It was founded in 1889, as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club ...
Transbay Tube. / 37.80889°N 122.31611°W / 37.80889; -122.31611. The Transbay Tube is an underwater rail tunnel that carries Bay Area Rapid Transit 's four transbay lines under San Francisco Bay between the cities of San Francisco and Oakland in California. The tube is 3.6 miles (5.8 km) long, and attaches to twin bored tunnels. [2]
Business magnate Francis Marion Smith then created the Key System in 1903 to connect San Francisco with the East Bay. The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened to rail traffic in 1939 only to have the last trains run in 1958 after fewer than twenty years of service – the tracks were torn up and replaced with additional lanes for ...
Presidio Go Shuttle (formerly PresidiGo) is a public transit system in San Francisco, California serving the San Francisco Presidio. The service includes two routes: the "South Hills" route providing circulator service within the Presidio, and the "Downtown" route connecting to Embarcadero station and the Transbay Transit Center in downtown San ...
The Portal. The Downtown Rail Extension ( DTX ), officially branded as The Portal, [1] is a planned second phase of the San Francisco Transbay Transit Center (TTC). When complete, it will extend the Caltrain Peninsula Corridor commuter rail line from its current northern terminus at 4th and King via a 1.3-mile (2.1 km) tunnel. [2]
The Twin Peaks Tunnel is a 2.27-mile-long (3.65 km) [2] light rail / streetcar tunnel in San Francisco, California. The tunnel runs under Twin Peaks and is used by the K Ingleside, L Taraval, M Ocean View and S Shuttle lines of the Muni Metro system. The eastern entrance to the tunnel is located at the west end of the Market Street subway near ...