SAN FRANCISCO – Market Street will be a sea of blue and yellow this Monday to celebrate the first Golden State Warriors’ championship since moving across the Bay to San Francisco. If you’re looking to yell “holy cannoli!” at Klay Thompson, here’s what you need to know.
Parking in downtown San Francisco can be a challenge just about any day of the week. Add in a Warriors victory parade and that challenge becomes harder.
“You will not find parking, even though it is a holiday for some people, it’s always difficult and it doesn’t mean there won’t be meter enforcement on the parking,” said KPIX5 Traffic Anchor Gianna Franco.
The parade route is short, just over a mile, running from Market and Main to Market and Sixth.
It will be filled with not only screaming fans, but SFPD, both in uniform and plainclothes, looking to make sure the crowd stays safe. “We’re not going to be tolerating violence. We’re not going to be tolerating vandalism. We want people to show San Francisco and the world what our team is all about,” said SFPD Officer Robert Rueca.
SFPD is on high alert for threats. “With any type of high profile event like this, we are scouring the social media, we are scouring the web for any possible threats and at this time the city is not seeing any information of credible threats.”
The route runs between the Powell and Civic Center stations, which has BART officials anticipating peak traffic from 9 a.m. until the parade starts, and from 1 to 3 p.m. as people exit the area.
Unlike previous championship years, there will be no post-parade rally, so BART officials are asking fans not to crowd into Civic Center Station. Riders who arrive at Civic Center should exit at the east end of the station toward Seventh Street.
Masks are still required in all BART stations and on all trains.
Red and yellow line trains coming from the East Bay will not stop at the Montgomery Street station before the parade.
Riders of those lines are advised to get off at Embarcadero, Powell Street, or Civic Center stations.
Riders at Embarcadero station are being discouraged from using the entrance at Market and Main streets, because the area is being used as a staging ground for the parade.
Additional BART police officers and community service officers will be deployed at downtown stations for the event.
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