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#1 BillMagee

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Posted 22 December 2015 - 10:13 AM

Not sure if this was posted previously (search came up empty - sorry if I missed it), but a prior plan to remove the overhead trolley wires from two blocks of Market Street to accommodate Super Bowl activities was reversed in November. This plan, allegedly to permit the construction of facilities for the game week festivities, would have disrupted all surface rail service on Market Street for up to a month.

Now, the wires will stay, but the lines will be de-energized and the street closed resulting in the truncation of the F Line streetcar.

From Streetcar.org, 11/19/15:

Wires, Yes. Super Bowl Week Streetcars, Still No

Social media and their news media followers seem to be celebrating yesterday’s announcement by the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee that they will not seek to take down Muni’s overhead wires on the first two blocks of Market Street after all in the week before the Super Bowl, when that area and the adjacent Justin Herman Plaza will be turned into a big party for the NFL and its corporate sponsors.

But it seems they misunderstand exactly what happened. Yes, the wires are staying up, avoiding the cost and time of removing and replacing them (the Host Committee had reportedly offered to pay…is it possible they cringed when they saw the estimate?). But from everything we’ve heard, the street itself will still close. Muni bus lines will have to be rerouted. And, most importantly to us, the F-line will be cut in half, with no streetcar service on Market Street at all.


The full article is HERE.



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Posted 11 January 2016 - 05:28 PM

From SFMTA/Muni website:

Getting Around During Super Bowl 50



The Bay Area is hosting Super Bowl 50! While the game is in Santa Clara, nine days of activities leading up to the game will be in San Francisco. That means transportation impacts from January 23 to February 12. Whether you're visiting, working or a resident, plan ahead, pack your patience and take transit, bike or walk where you need to go.


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Posted 14 January 2016 - 07:01 PM

San Francisco Weekly, 1/13:
 

Muni's Super Bowl Non-Surveillance Cameras

 

oon, more than 110 million pairs of eyes will be on San Francisco for the Super Bowl — and for attendees at Super Bowl City, the "fan village" taking over the foot of Market Street at the Embarcadero, extra eyes will be on them.

 

Over the past few weeks, Muni has quietly installed 25 cameras on the stretch of Market Street from First Street to the Ferry Building that will be shut to traffic from Jan. 23 to Feb. 12. (The fan village will host events, like an Alicia Keys concert, from Jan. 30 up until game day on Feb. 7).

 

The cameras, affixed to city-owned streetlight poles, were first noticed by leery, privacy-minded Twitter users who spread word of a creeping super surveillance state via the hashtag #SuperBowlSurveillance.

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Posted 20 January 2016 - 05:38 PM

SFMTA Pamphlet:

 

Getting Around During Super Bowl 50 (.pdf)






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