The Vallejo Transit Center bus station in May 2019
The Vallejo Station was created by combining the Vallejo Ferry Terminal, the Vallejo Transit Centerbus station, and a connecting multi-story parking garage and paseo. It is designed to be an intermodal transit station in Vallejo, California.[1] It is located in the western part of Central Vallejo.
The development of the Vallejo Station complex is part of a larger plan to redevelop the entire Vallejo Waterfront consisting of a total of 92 acres (37 ha).[4] As for 2023, the plan has not been completed.
Vallejo Ferry Terminal additionally serves as the northern terminal for the seasonal ferry to Oracle Park for San Francisco Giants baseball games. The Vallejo Giants Ferry only operates on weekday evenings and weekends for select Giants home games throughout the Major League Baseball season; weekday evening service only operates northbound from Oracle Park to Vallejo 20 minutes after the last out of the game, while weekend service operates bidirectionally between Vallejo and Oracle Park, also returning to Vallejo 20 minutes after the last out of the game.[5]
The Vallejo Ferry Terminal Ticket Office is open on weekdays between 5:30am and 5:00pm, and on weekends and holidays between 8:00am and 5:00pm.
The Vallejo Convention and Visitor's Bureau headquarters is also located inside of the Ferry Terminal.
The City of Vallejo contracted with STV Incorporated to build the Transit Center.[6] It has 12 bays for buses.[6] The Transit Center opened in 2011.[7]
Soltrans: local routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7; express routes Red, Yellow, and 82.
VINE Transit: local route 11; express route 11X (stops at ferry terminal only).
Parking garage
The Phase A of the parking garage was completed in 2012 at a cost of US$74 million.[4][7] The first phase had parking for 750 cars.[4] This completed the creation of Vallejo Station development.[4] Plans to build a parking garage, in two sections, were first suggested in 1987.[4] Phase B will expand the garage near the Vallejo Ferry Terminal.[7]
In 2022, the parking garage earned US$850,000 in revenue not counting parking fines, which nearly covers the cost of operating the garage, including paying for security.[8] Prior to 2020, the parking garage had revenues at its peak of US$1.4 million, which provided US$500,000 in revenue back to the city government.[8]
By 2023, crime in the parking garage had become a problem, especially theft from inside of cars and of cars' catalytic converters.[8] “That garage is a nightmare,” Vallejo City Council member Mina Loera-Diaz said during a city council mmeeting. “A lot of people figure ‘it’s covered, it has to be safe, I’m not going to park on the street’ – And it's from that garage where they are taking the most catalytic converters.”[8]
References
^"Project Overview". Vallejo Station Intermodal Facility project. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2012.