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Traffic in SOMA is a lot less around evening rush hour, because there isn't a mess of cars backed up on the streets leading up to the I-80 enterance.

Traffic is worse, however, around the other bridges in the area, since the interchanges to the major freeways (101, 880) at those bridges do not have the capacity to handle the offload from the bay bridge traffic. Some of those interchanges only have one lane vs. multiple for the bay bridge entry and exit points, and not enough merge distance to make things smooth.

Parking at most BART stations is also pretty much at capacity, whereas usually there is plenty of empty spaces.