San Francisco's New $2 Billion Transit Center Is Shut Down Over Cracked Beam
"Motorists are kindly asked to avoid driving downtown," the Transbay Joint Powers Authority said Tuesday. The agency apologized to bus commuters, saying it was acting out of caution.
San Francisco officials have temporarily shut down the city's huge new transit center after a crack was spotted in a steel beam in the ceiling. Structural engineers are now inspecting all the beams in the Salesforce Transit Center — which opened just a month ago, at a cost of more than $2.1 billion.
The crack was discovered early Tuesday, but the shutdown wasn't ordered until hours later, forcing
