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Behold San Francisco's $2 Billion Bus Station

The Salesforce Transit Center, San Francisco’s new bus and (someday) high-speed rail terminal, has been billed as the Grand Central Station of the West. But it might just become the Bay Area’s answer to the High Line.
Strike up the band: San Francisco's new Salesforce Transit Center is not your average bus station.
Strike up the band: San Francisco's new Salesforce Transit Center is not your average bus station.Benjamin Schneider/CityLab
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Benjamin Schneider

On Saturday, downtown San Francisco got a new transit center and a new park at the same time.

Thousands of people came to the official grand opening of the Salesforce Transit Center, an undulating, three-block-long terminal that’s been under construction for eight years and cost $2.2 billion.