San Francisco Chronicle

Super Bowl: Market Street Muni wires won’t be coming down for party.

- By Emily Green Emily Green is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: egreen@sfchronicl­e.com Twitter: @emilytgree­n

The big Super Bowl celebratio­ns in San Francisco won’t shut down Muni service downtown after all.

The Super Bowl 50 Host Committee and the city ditched a proposed plan to shut down Muni service on the roughly two blocks of Market Street between Beale Street and Justin Herman Plaza where festivitie­s are planned. About a dozen Muni lines would have been affected.

“It would have been too disruptive for Muni operations, and the groups jointly decided not to pursue that plan,” said Christine Falvey, Mayor Ed Lee’s spokeswoma­n. “The footprint of the event will be reconfigur­ed to accommodat­e Super Bowl City.”

The eight-day party in February will include a theme park, interactiv­e exhibits and footballre­lated games.

It is being organized and paid for by the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee, a group of private donors raising money to bring the game to the Bay Area. The actual football game will be played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.

“After working very closely with Muni on this issue we decided that the smart solution is to reconfigur­e Super Bowl City so the structures that would have interfered with the wires will be moved to another location close by,” committee spokesman Nathan Ballard said.

Supervisor­s Malia Cohen and Jane Kim will hold a hearing Dec. 7 on Super Bowl planning that will include concerns about security after the terrorist attacks in Paris last week.

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