King City Multimodal Transportation Center
King City Multimodal Transportation Center is a planned transit hub in King City, California. It would serve Amtrak’s Coast Starlight, future regional rail in Monterey County, and act as a regional bus hub. The center would be built at Pearl Street and First Street, reviving rail service that ended when Southern Pacific closed the King City station in the 1940s. Construction could start in 2028 or 2029.
Funding comes from California’s Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program and the State Rail Assistance Program, using gas tax revenue from the Road Repair and Accountability Act. The project will be built in phases. Phase 1 includes passenger platforms and a staging area for soldiers from nearby Fort Hunter Liggett. The Pearl Street crossing will be closed and Broadway extended over the tracks to improve pedestrian and vehicle access. Phase 1 is planned to cost about $51 million. A later phase would add a station building.
The center is planned to have one side platform and be accessible. In Amtrak timetables, Coast Starlight would stop there, with Salinas toward Seattle and Paso Robles toward Los Angeles nearby on the route.
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