Super Bowl traffic tied up around stadium

TAMPA -- It's more than an hour since the game ended, and traffic is thick.

Transportation officials are trying to move 72,000 people out of the area.

Martin Luther King Boulevard eastbound is at a complete standstill, officials say. Buses off MLK are lined up and stalled as they attempt to wade into the traffic.

511.tampabay.com reports jams on all streets around Raymond James Stadium as well as westbound on Hillsborough Avenue between N Dale Mabry Highway and Sawyer Road and eastbound on Hillsborough Avenue between the Veterans Expressway and Interstate-275.

Gameday Transportation Group VP Mike Witte is on and off his phone issuing orders to try to reroute buses into into less conjested areas. One area of concern is in Lot 11, where team family members waiting to depart on buses.

Also, Florida Highway Patrol is responding to a wreck on N Dale Mabry Hwy. at Ehrlich Road. There is also a crash at Hillsborough Avenue and Golden Dr., just west of Dale Mabry, involving a road block in the left turn lane.

Rebecca Catalanello, Times staff writer

Comments

[Christian]

Conjested?

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Seems to happen at the end of most Super Bowls, or any other major sporting event's game, for that matter (Stanley Cup, Word Series, etc etc). You'd think that the people in charge would have a handle on this type of stuff by now, and prepare properly for it, but several times a year we get stuff like this happening...

Marc
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