2 cracked beams found at new San Francisco transit terminal

SAN FRANCISCO — A second beam in San Francisco’s celebrated new $2 billion transit terminal shows signs of cracking, an official said Wednesday, a day after a crack in a nearby support beam shut down the building that opened just last month.

The first crack found by workers installing roof tiles Tuesday spans a beam holding up a park over the three-block-long facility and runs over a downtown street, Salesforce Transit Center executive director Mark Zabaneh said.

He said the problems were localized to that area of the transit hub, but it would remain closed “at least through the end of next week” as inspections continued. It’s not clear what caused the cracks.

Mayor London Breed said the facility would stay closed until it was safe to reopen.