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Mission Bay employers struggle with crushing traffic — and Warriors arena isn't even built yet
By Kevin Truong – Multimedia producer, San Francisco Business Times
Mar 1, 2018, 2:39pm PST Updated Mar 1, 2018, 3:41pm

Employees at Bayer’s Mission Bay office have the San Francisco Giants season schedule displayed prominently in their workspaces, but it’s not necessarily because they’re big fans.

For workers at the company’s West Coast Innovation Center, Giants day games at AT&T Park mean even more crushing commutes and adjustments like re-scheduling meetings with out-of-towners and leaving early to avoid gametime crowds.

While the planned completion of the Warriors’ $1 billion Chase Center in 2019, the continuing buildout of UC San Francisco and the arrival of major tech companies like Uber and Dropbox to Mission Bay heralds a coming-of-age for the formerly industrial district, the area’s traffic looks likely only to worsen.

The lack of viable transportation options and increasing congestion driven by the influx of new tenants could hurt the neighborhood’s thriving business community with big investment in transit. Either way, it has shaped the work patterns of employees in the area . . . .

Mission Bay is something of a choke point in the city’s transportation infrastructure, with few routes in and out of the area. That was fine when the only thing rolling in and out were industrial vehicles, not so with thousands more daily employees and rabid sports fans.

Regis Kelly, director of the UC’s QB3 life sciences incubator, has already seen the detrimental effects of congestion, especially for employees who have children. He, too, has a schedule for game days when he lets workers out earlier to make specific drop-off and pick-up times for their families.

Kelly’s contingency planning extends to his own trips to the East Bay where he oversees QB3’s Berkeley branch. He said he will rarely go out to a meeting in Berkeley unless he can leave San Francisco by 1 p.m. . . . .

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranc...r-workers.html

Seems to me the issue here is traffic on I-80/280 and the Bay Bridge. I've never noted traffic on Mission Bay surface streets that's any worse than the rest of the city. Or has something changed?