Severe traffic expected again in SF due to Transbay closure, Dreamforce
Traffic in downtown San Francisco could be even hairier the morning after a second cracked steel beam was discovered at the new $2.2 billion Transbay Transit Center.
In an effort to keep people a safe distance from the new transportation hub as investigators go about their work, commuters and attendees of Dreamforce — the annual Salesforce tech conference that is expected to attract 170,000 attendees — will be diverted away from several key areas of the city’s core.
Interstate 80’s Fremont Street off-ramp bus lane is closed, and the street will be blocked off from Howard Street to Mission Street. Howard will also be closed between Third and Fourth streets, officials announced. The tentative reopening of the off-ramp bus lane is Oct. 9.