Editing San Francisco Transbay Terminal (section)

===Rebuilt for bus service===
During the next year, the Transbay Terminal was rebuilt into a bus depot.<ref name=CHPW1960 /> The tracks were removed and replaced with pavement<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/Californiahighways/chpw_1960_janfeb.pdf |title=Remodeling of S.F. Transit Terminal Continues |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=January–February 1960 |volume=39 |number=1–2 |page=59 |journal=California Highways and Public Works |publisher=Division of Highways, California Department of Public Works |accessdate=24 March 2016 |quote=The elevated track area from the San Francisco Anchorage which faces Beale Street in San Francisco, around the Terminal Loop, and through the building, has now been repaved and the 14 motor coach lines of the Key System Transit Lines are now operating out of the terminal, thus relieving the city streets of this traffic. [...] Included in this remodeling was the construction of a new stairway to the garage area below the street level, the installation of fluorescent lights in the main waiting room and on the mezzanine floor, the opening of various previously closed areas for freer movement of pedestrian traffic throughout the building, and the installing of a new stairway flanked on both sides by escalators, leading from the lobby to the mezzanine level.}}</ref> for use primarily by the buses of the publicly owned successor of the Key System, [[AC Transit]]. All lines were operating from the rebuilt terminal by July 12, 1959, and [[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]] service was added on February 1, 1960.<ref name=CHPW1960 /> In 1971 Amtrak started running buses into the Transbay Terminal from the [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific]]'s [[16th Street Mission station|16th Street Station]]. Bus service thrived until late 1974, when [[Bay Area Rapid Transit|BART]]'s [[Transbay Tube]] opened. Many people preferred BART over AC Transit. The tube didn't run through the terminal, resulting in its decline. Homeless people noticed the dropping commuters and took the chance to inhabit it.

After formation of the [[Muni Metro]], streetcars were replaced with [[light rail]] vehicles and rerouted through the upper level of the [[Market Street subway]]. Rail service to the station was briefly revived by the [[F Market]] line, at first during [[San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival|historic streetcar festivals]], but for full service by 1995.<ref name=Chronology /> The line's extension to [[Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco|Fisherman's Wharf]] in March 2000 saw the end of rail traffic to the terminal.<ref name="chron-2000mar2">{{cite news |last=Epstein |first=Edward |title=New way to the wharf; Merchants hope F–Market line will draw locals to tourist attractions |newspaper=[[The San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=March 2, 2000 |page=A20 |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Way-to-the-Wharf-Merchants-hope-F-Market-3304845.php |accessdate=August 17, 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225044800/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Way-to-the-Wharf-Merchants-hope-F-Market-3304845.php |archivedate=February 25, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> The last F-line trip departed from the Transbay Terminal at 12:55&nbsp;a.m. on the night of March 3,<ref name="TAUT-2000Apr">{{cite magazine |title=Systems News |magazine=[[Tramways & Urban Transit]] |publisher=[[Ian Allan Publishing]]/[[Light Rail Transit Association]] |date=April 2000 |location=UK |pages=150–151|issn=1460-8324}}</ref> and the track was abandoned in August 2000, the final use being a "farewell" trip by 1916-built work car C1 on August 18,<ref name="TAUT-2000Nov">{{cite magazine |title=Systems News |magazine=[[Tramways & Urban Transit]] |publisher=[[Ian Allan Publishing]]/[[Light Rail Transit Association]] |date=November 2000 |location=UK |page=431|issn=1460-8324}}</ref> with work on removal of the track on Fremont Street beginning soon afterwards.<ref name="chron-2000aug15">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Roadwork to begin Friday on Fremont Street |newspaper=[[The San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=August 15, 2000 |page=A26}}</ref>

The Transbay Terminal hosted a cocktail lounge, a diner, a newsstand, and a state police office until the 1990s, when the tenants were either evicted or unable to meet safety regulations.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Travel-into-the-Transbay-Terminal-s-past-3257302.php |title=Travel into the Transbay Terminal's past |author=Cabanatuan, Michael |date=30 July 2010 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |accessdate=25 March 2016 }}</ref> Because the Terminal straddled First and Fremont streets, the large overpass structures and lobby spaces unofficially served to shelter numerous homeless people.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mayor-urges-homeless-to-leave-Transbay-Terminal-3180218.php |title=Mayor urges homeless to leave Transbay Terminal |author=Coté, John |date=31 July 2010 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |accessdate=25 March 2016}}</ref> Even after demolition commenced, several Transbay Terminal residents refused to move, preferring instead to sleep next to demolition debris.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Transbay-Terminal-hurdle-hard-core-homeless-2530124.php |title=Transbay Terminal hurdle: hard-core homeless |date=11 February 2011 |author=Fagan, Kevin |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |accessdate=25 March 2016}}</ref>