Super Bowl to San Francisco: "Can You, Like, Take Down All Those Icky Bus Wires?"

Super Bowl to San Francisco: "Can You, Like, Take Down All Those Icky Bus Wires?"

Super Bowls and public transportation don't always mix, and sometimes the result is nothing less than apocalyptic . Usually the problem is that cities need more transit to handle more people. But here's the odd idea for the next Super Bowl, being held in San Francisco: Take some of that transit away. That's the request from the Super Bowl 50 committee, which wants to convert the city's Market Street into the fan village or "Super Bowl City." And the overhead wires which power the Muni system's buses just aren't going to work with their plans, says the SF Examiner : The committee planning Super Bowl City are asking that Muni's overhead wires be taken down near Justin Herman Plaza, the San Francisco Examiner has learned, potentially disrupting service of Muni's historic streetcars and wire-dependent buses. Supervisor Jane Kim, whose district includes the plaza, said she thought the potential plan was well-known. "Yeah, that's real," she said.

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