Happy Straight Pride, everyone! San Francisco's rowdiest annual footrace, Bay to Breakers, whose second line of revelers might number as many as 80,000, will either make or break your Sunday but you know better than to try to tour the city in a car on Sunday morning, right?
The route begins on Howard, following that street from Steuart to 9th, then down Hayes from Market to Divisadero, on Fell from Divisadero to the Golden Gate Park, and in the park, follows JFK Drive all the way to the Pacific.
That all means a number of street closures as roadways become raceways/pissoirs. These are those that will be closed off:
- Howard from the Embarcadero to Beale
- Steuart from Mission to its southern end
- Spear from Mission to Folsom
- Main from Mission to Folsom
- Beale from Mission to Folsom
- Fremont from Mission to Folsom
- 1st from Mission to Folsom
- 2nd from Mission to Folsom
- New Montgomery from Mission to Howard
- Howard from Beale to 3rd
- Howard from 3rd to 9th
- 9th from Howard to Market
- Hayes from Market to Divisadero
- Steiner from Grove to Hayes
- Divisadero from Grove to Oak
- Baker from Oak to Fell
- Fell From Divisadero to Stanyan
- 47th from Fulton to JFK
- La Play from Cabrillo to Fulton
- Fulton, eastbound, from the Great Highway to 48th
- Fulton, westbound, from 46th to the Great Highway
- Lincoln, eastbound, from the Great Highway to La Playa
- Lincoln, westbound,from 48th to the Great Highway
- Cabrillo from 46th to La Playa
- Balboa from 46th to the Great Highway
- Point Lobos From 48th/El Camino Del Mar to to the Great Highway
- JFK from Stanyan to the Great Highway
- Bernice Rodgesr from JFK to MLK
- MLK from Bernice Rodgers to Lincoln
- Transverse from MLK to Crossover
- 30th from Fulton to JFK
- 36th from Fulton to JFK
- Chain of Lakes from Fulton to Lincoln
- MLK from Chain of Lakes to Sunset
- 47th from Fulton to JFK
- Great Highway from Sloat to JFK
- Great Highway from JFK to Balboa
Also closed will be the Ocean Beach North and main parking lots as well as the Balboa Parking lot.
The whole list of closures and their durations is available here
While you can expect added service to and from the race via the 5X, 5R and NX, more likely are crowded buses or routes that aren't running. A full list of Muni closures is here.