Due to additional time needed for construction work on the Quint Street Rail Bridge, Caltrain will be extending bus bridge service between Bayshore Station and the San Francisco Station on 4th and King streets until noon today.
Caltrain is in the midst of replacing the 100-year-old Quint Street Rail Bridge with a new berm. To accommodate this important work, Caltrain only operated trains between the Bayshore Caltrain Station and San Jose Diridon Caltrain Station on Saturday.
SamTrans provided replacement bus bridge service for all passengers traveling from the San Francisco Caltrain Station at 4th and King streets to the 22nd Street Caltrain Station, and to the Bayshore Caltrain Station on Saturday. Normal train service was originally scheduled to return on Sunday.
Between 8 a.m. and noon today, northbound trains will operate on the current Sunday schedule until they reach the Bayshore Caltrain Station, and southbound trains will use the current Sunday schedule after they depart the Bayshore Caltrain Station.
Between the San Francisco and Bayshore stations, the bus service will be provided by SamTrans. Caltrain customers should look for the red, white and blue buses when they get to the station. Ambassadors also will be at all stations to assist people. There will be limited capacity for luggage and bikes on the buses.
By noon today, Caltrain is expected to resume regular service and operate on the current Sunday schedule.
For more information about the Quint Street Bridge Replacement Project and schedule, please visit www.caltrain.com/quint. To download a Caltrain bus bridge schedule, visit www.caltrain.com/busbridge.
The San Francisco County Transportation Authority’s Quint-Jerrold Connector Road project will follow the berm construction. The planned connector road will link Quint Street, just north of Oakdale Avenue, to Jerrold Avenue via a new road along the west side of the Caltrain tracks. More information regarding the Quint-Jerrold Connector Road project can be found at www.sfcta.org/quint.
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