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  • Cracked steel beam found at Transbay Transit Center could imperil operations

    09/25/2018 7:38:04 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 59 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 25, 2018 | Matier & Ross
    The crack discovered Tuesday in a steel beam that supports the roof garden of the new, $2.2 billion Transbay Transit Center — forcing the terminal’s abrupt closure just as rush-hour was getting going — is the latest headache for the 2 1/2 block long transit hub.
  • Digging up history at old Transbay Terminal

    12/02/2011 7:26:34 PM PST · by thecodont · 6 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Friday, December 2, 2011 | Michael Cabanatuan, Chronicle Staff Writer
    When most people ponder the past at the Transbay Terminal construction site, they imagine the hustle and bustle of gray-suited commuters swarming in and out of the Art Deco-style train depot in the mid-20th century. But archaeologists working at the site during demolition of the dingy old terminal last winter and construction of its grand replacement have unearthed artifacts that help reveal what it must have been like to live in the Irish working-class neighborhood that existed in that part of the South of Market in the mid- to late 1800s. They've dug up bottles that once held soda, booze...