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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The Latest on the closure of San Francisco’s new transit center (all times local):

12:55 p.m.

A resident of the San Francisco neighborhood where a transit terminal is closed out of safety concerns says the $2.2 billion used to build it could have gone to other priorities.

Juliana Cheng lives in the South of Market neighborhood where warehouses have been replaced by luxury high-rise condos and gleaming office towers amid a construction boom in the last few years.

The 32-year-old says it’s disappointing but kind of amusing that Salesforce Transit Center was shut down only weeks after it opened.

City officials in 2012 approved legislation to boost height limits on new buildings in anticipation of the transportation hub opening and as part of an effort to lure technology companies from Silicon Valley.

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12:20 p.m.

The mayor of San Francisco says the city’s new $2 billion transit terminal where a crack was found in a support beam will stay closed until officials determine it’s safe to reopen it.

Mayor London Breed said she visited the Salesforce Transit Center on Wednesday to meet with officials assessing the crack found Tuesday by workers installing roofing tiles.

Breed says a thorough investigation will be conducted to determine what caused the crack, who is responsible and when the transportation hub can safely reopen. She didn’t say when that would be.

Officials closed the center during Tuesday afternoon rush hour. Buses are being rerouted to a temporary transit center about two blocks away.

The five-level center that opened last month includes a bus deck, a central entrance hall and a rooftop park with an outdoor amphitheater.

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12 a.m.

The so-called “Grand Central of the West” is closed out of safety concerns after workers discovered a crack in a support beam of the $2 billion transit terminal that opened just last month.

Executive director Mark Zabaneh says workers discovered the crack early Tuesday while installing roofing tiles at the Salesforce Transit Center. He said structural engineers would be working at the building Tuesday night to assess whether it is safe for people to return.

Enveloped in wavy white sheets of metal veil, the five-level center includes a bus deck, a towering sky-lit central entrance hall and a rooftop park with an outdoor amphitheater. Zabaneh said American steel was used in the center’s construction.

Buses were rerouted to a temporary transit center about two blocks away.

Commuters make their way into the Temporary Transbay Terminal after the Salesforce Transit Center was closed Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, in San Francisco. San Francisco officials shut down the city’s celebrated new $2.2 billion transit terminal Tuesday after discovering a crack in a support beam under the center’s public roof garden. Coined the “Grand Central of the West,” the Salesforce Transit Center opened in August near the heart of downtown after nearly a decade of construction. It was expected to accommodate 100,000 passengers each weekday, and up to 45 million people a year. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

FILE – In this file photo taken Aug. 15, 2018, food trucks line up outside the new Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco. San Francisco officials shut down the city’s $2.2 billion transit terminal Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, after a crack was found in a steel beam. (AP Photo/Lorin Eleni Gill, File)