Firm Hired to Design Rail and Bus Station
A Newport Beach architectural firm has been hired to draft plans for converting the old Santa Fe depot in Claremont into a combined rail and bus station for commuters.
The $97,000 contract was awarded to Thirtieth Street Architects, which submitted the lower of two bids on the design phase of the project. The firm’s representatives estimated that the work will be completed by May.
City Councilman Algird G. Leiga said Proposition A money earmarked for the project would be better used on immediate improvements to public transportation in the city. The commuter trains that would use the renovated depot are not expected to run until fall, 1992.
But Mayor Nicholas Presecan said the city must move quickly “so that we won’t be standing at the track without the trains going by.”
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