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The California High Speed Rail Authority board has adopted design variances to San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center to ensure the facility becomes the northern terminus for the state’s high-speed rail system.

An alternatives analysis report for the San Francisco-to-San Jose segment of the corridor recently released by CHSRA showed that the Transbay Transit Center is the preferred and “only practical location” for the terminus, and deemed the proposed Blake Street alternative as “infeasible,” according to a press release.

The Transbay Transit Center project calls for replacing the current Transbay Terminal with a multi-modal transportation hub that would be served by nine transportation systems. The project also includes extending Caltrain’s line 1.3 miles from its current terminus to the Transbay Transit Center, and redeveloping the area surrounding the facility to feature 2,600 new homes, parks and a retail main street.

Construction on the $4 billion transit center began in December 2008 and is scheduled to be complete in 2015.