[Weekend] Interesting...
Jul. 3rd, 2009 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonAccording to the SF transportation site, looks like they might actually close our street tomorrow! This is rather interesting, considering how much traffic comes through every Fourth of July. It usually starts mid-afternoon with a lot of people coming in looking for parking (and a LOT of foot traffic coming down the hill from Chinatown and other points south), and they close the most northern east-west streets one by one as the day goes on. Bay (the east-west cross street outside our window) usually gets partially closed, or at least slows down...but gets SERIOUSLY backed up post-fireworks. Like I'd said earlier, the fireworks are usually over by 9:30 or 10pm, but the traffic doesn't let up for another two hours.
I'm not entirely sure where the traffic will go, since Bay is the most northern main thoroughfare that's busy, and the only one that really connects between the Embarcadero and Van Ness, the two big north-south thoroughfares. Not that I'm complaining, though...would be nice to have a quiet street! One of the worst things we get each year is people honking horns because they're not moving on a green light (even though there's five cars stuck in the intersection that can't go anywhere--yeah, our drivers here in CA are funny that way), hopefully no traffic will be nice... :)
Well, that is until post-fireworks, when all the foot traffic heads back south up the hill again. Your typical loud shenanigans (but thankfully no violence/desctruction, at least not since we've been here), which can get annoying after awhile. But I think I can handle that. ;)
I'm not entirely sure where the traffic will go, since Bay is the most northern main thoroughfare that's busy, and the only one that really connects between the Embarcadero and Van Ness, the two big north-south thoroughfares. Not that I'm complaining, though...would be nice to have a quiet street! One of the worst things we get each year is people honking horns because they're not moving on a green light (even though there's five cars stuck in the intersection that can't go anywhere--yeah, our drivers here in CA are funny that way), hopefully no traffic will be nice... :)
Well, that is until post-fireworks, when all the foot traffic heads back south up the hill again. Your typical loud shenanigans (but thankfully no violence/desctruction, at least not since we've been here), which can get annoying after awhile. But I think I can handle that. ;)
