Marathon Weekend 2027

[Psymonds]

The way the field thins out quickly between the runners, walkers and run/walkers, I don’t think this could be done feasibly and safely. I think that road will need to either be closed for runners or open for buses continually, not flipping back and forth.

other marathons do this regularly with a two lane run system (one side is open to runners the other to cars, similar to what they do for live pedestrian crossings in the park. SF marathon has whole sections where they alternate streets for several blocks to let cars through systematically.

ETA: see the dashed parallel lines sections in the course below. they alternate sides every few minutes and cars can get through on the surface streets (since the course isolates something like half the city on an island...