Newport Transportation Center Gets Going After 3-Plus Years of Planning
After more than 3 years of planning, groundbreaking ceremonies were held Thursday for the Newport Transportation Center--a bus depot and park-and-ride facility for east Newport Beach.
The center, at MacArthur Boulevard and San Joaquin Hills Road, will have nine bus bays for dropping off and picking up passengers and 76 parking spaces, according to Sam Hout, project manager for the Orange County Transit District. Total construction cost is estimated at $1.9 million.
Planners say that one of the goals of the project is to reduce traffic in the Fashion Island and Newport Center areas.
“The city has been working with the Newport Center Assn. for many years looking for ways to reduce traffic . . . and this is just another piece of the puzzle,” Newport Beach Mayor Ruthelyn Plummer said.
“This was an area of concern . . . people in their minds equalized it with the large (transportation) facilities that they have in Santa Ana,” Plummer continued.
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