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How to Tackle Super Bowl 50 Traffic & Street Closures

The Super Bowl is Going to Make Driving Around Downtown & SOMA Super Hard
By - posted 1/27/2016 No Comment

It’s time to tuck your cars into garages and non-metered parking spots for a long winter’s nap.

KRON4 says it’s a “nightmare for commuters,” But on the bright side, KGO says “Traffic to get worse.”

From January 23rd to February 12th, street closures in preparation for very important and not at all frivolous Super Bowl stuff, will make it next to impossible to get around downtown and SOMA.

But you can try.

Getting Around During Super Bowl 50

Super Bowl 50 Street Closures & Detours

Here’s a graph of all the Super Bowl 50 auto detours ready to make your commute worse than the 49ers 2015 season. (And don’t forget that Critical Mass is scheduled for Friday, January 29th).

SFMTA recommends walking, or biking these SF areas. If you can create an Uber app for pedicabs, now is the time to do it.

A Muni Mess

Public transit will be affected too, with buses and shuttles moving around all over the place. Here’s a map of that mess.

It’s not too late to ask your boss if you can work from home or Hawaii for the last couple of weeks at the end of January when San Francisco turns into “Football Land 2016.”