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The Super Bowl is tomorrow. The San Francisco 49ers will play some football team or another in the Super Bowl. You will probably watch the game on TV, because you either a) are a 49ers fan, b) love commercials, c) both, d) are laid up in bed with that flu that’s going around, and have no choice but to watch the Super Bowl. Wait, are we allowed to write “Super Bowl”? I guess we have to hope so.
Lots going on this weekend. And some sort of “football” game or something, or the other. Check it out:
Chinese New Year Flower Fair
On Saturday and Sunday the Chinese New Year Flower Fair will be held in Chinatown from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday. For more event details, please visit www.sanfranciscochinatown.com.
The following Muni routes will be affected:
10 Townsend
12 Folsom-Pacific
Street Closure for Building Construction
Beginning 11 p.m., Friday until 5 a.m., Monday, 5th Street between Market and Mission streets will be closed for building construction work.
To direct traffic during the closure, there will be flaggers or SF Police Officers will be on site at the intersection of Market, Mission and Howard streets on 5th Street. Motorists travelling in this area are advised to allow extra travel time and to use alternate routes including 4th, 6th and Howard streets.
The following Muni routes will be affected:
27 Bryant
8X Bayshore Express
30 Stockton
45 Union-Stockton
91 Owl
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Walk for Life
On Saturday the Walk for Life will gather at Civic Center Plaza beginning at 11 a.m. followed by a rally at 12:30 p.m. There will be a march at 1:30 p.m. from Civic Center Plaza to Justin Herman Plaza via Grove and Market streets. For event details, please visit www.walkforlifewc.com.
Market Street will be closed to cross traffic between 10th Street and The Embarcadero from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Motorists should expect significant delays along the Market Street corridor during the closure. Cross traffic will re-open once the march has passed.
The following Muni lines and routes will be affected:
• F Market & Wharves
• N Judah
• K Ingleside
• T Third Street
• 2 Clement
• 5 Fulton
• 6 Parnassus
• 8x Bayshore Express
• 9 San Bruno
• 10 Townsend
• 12 Folsom-Pacific
• 14 Mission
• 14L Mission Limited
• 19 Polk
• 21 Hayes
• 27 Bryant
• 30 Stockton
• 31 Balboa
• 38 Geary
• 38L Geary Limited
• 45 Union-Stockton
• 71 Haight-Noriega
Before there were blinking displays, Muni schedules were a chalk board affair. From Market Street Railway, here’s Muni’s first schedule, for the inbound A-Geary in 1912. If you look closely, you’ll see that the times are stated to the nearest half-minute.