OT: Getting across GGB during the SF Marathon?

[Andrew Stadler]

SF Marathon is this Sunday...
http://sfist.com/2016/07/29/these_are_the_streets_that_will_be_1.php

Assuming one can work around the race closures (e.g. it looks like you can get though the wiggle and from there into the Presidio, is bike traffic across the GGB effectively possible, or just too screwed up to even bother with?

[Darrin Ward]

eh, the wiggle sounds and looks pretty inaccessible. 

"North and south access across Lower Haight Street should use Steiner or Fillmore - expect significant delays."

http://www.thesfmarathon.com/the-races/full-marathon/

the route runs right over the wiggle on haight.

then you have to deal with lincon once you get there.  with all events i can usually figure out a way to pass but its not usually terribly pleasant.  

that sound pretty clusterfucky to me.  i would ride east bay or south bay.

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[Andrew Stadler]

I wasn't worried by the wiggle because it's on the back half of the marathon route, and we'd be crossing it early (on the way to the bridge).  Am I being too optimistic?

[Bret Lobree]

I feel like I've gotten through the marathon with not much issue in the past...worst case you just swim with the runners so to speak. It's not at all like B2B...

[Ted Ketai]

Yeah unless you're trying to get across right at the starting line at the starting time or something it's usually not that big a deal if you're on a bike (cars are a different matter). 

[djconnel]

Marathon starts sicko early for a major city marathon. A bit embarrassingly so: a testiment to how stilted to pro-car bias is here. Boston, Chicago, NY, Sacramento view marathons as events to celebrate, not to bury in pre-dawn obscurity

Anyway a non factor unless you're riding similarly early.