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While that would be nice (assuming I'm still here), it seems that by 2012 the Bay Area will be so completely overcrowded that we'll probably have round-the-clock traffic jams on any normal day of the week, never mind during any special events with a lot of visitors.
So what's traffic like at a playoff game?
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Um... bad. We only made it to the game on time because I watched the news the night before and saw the long lines of cars trying to find parking and people waiting to pick up tickets (apparently some people waiting in lines over an hour long to pick up their tickets, and some people couldn't actually get into the game until the 6th or 7th innings)... And, since I get obsessive about these things I convinced my friends to leave work really early, and then showed up at their offices even earlier than planned to convince them to leave even earlier... Then we still sat in traffic forever. The only thing that wasn't that bad was parking, but when I went to see the Yankees play the A's back in August, we didn't get in until the fourth inning due to parking problems.
So, no, I don't want to think about what an Olympics in the Bay Area would mean for traffic. It would be horrible. I think it would probably be time for a two week vacation. Of course, in 12 years, we may still be in the middle of that predicted "internet depression" and the area will be a ghost town anyway... :)
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