CA: Even as SF Transit Center Opens, Officials Figuring Out How to Pay Bills

With high-speed rail a distant dream and its mall space still a shell, officials at the newly opened Transbay Transit Center are scrambling to come up with the $27.5 million a year needed to run the three-block-long mega-bus station and rooftop park.

And from the looks of things, it will be drivers crossing the bay’s seven state-owned bridges who will be shelling out as much as $17 million a year in toll money to maintain the center — at least in the short term.

That’s more than three times the amount allocated from tolls for either the temporary or the old Transbay Terminal that the new center replaced.

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