by Jerry Feitelberg

SAN FRANCISCO–After releasing sketches of their latest design for the new arena at Mission Bay that looked like a drawing of a toilet with the seat cover down the Golden State Warriors are considering going back to the drawing board. The roof of the area would resemble the lid of a seat and the shape of the arena looked like a toilet.

Where the bracket of the toilet seat goes that would be where the Warriors would build a Bay Front Terrace that would be 135 feet high level to the rest of the seat or arena span at the same height at 135 feet high. There would be two office labs for UCSF those buildings would be taller than the arena at 160 feet each.

Warrior spokesman PJ Johnston said that the renderings were not the final design and that the Warriors were considering a “different look” after the out pouring of commentary of it’s porcelain like looks.

The drawing was meant to give an idea what the configurations would look like to simulate traffic conditions. Sounds like a good excuse to make it all look good but this ones by the sound of it is headed down the drain. Some major sports publications and sports networks namely ESPN and Sports Illustrated had some half jokingly comments about the design and the Warriors knew it was time to look at a new design.

Johnston said that once somthing like this gets on the internet it spread like wildfire, “I guess that’s the perils of the internet” but Johnston said that the design will change in the coming months. Traffic has been the main concern for the Warriors and the Mission Bay neighborhood. So the Warriors wanted some design to go with the streets and how it would work for traffic.

As far as transportation and traffic is concern there has been a question as to the Warriors new arena being a quagmire for traffic much like Levis Stadium in Santa Clara has been. The plan is to run light rail from Caltrain at Fourth and Townsend towards Mission Bay. The T line currently runs only one train to Mission Bay from downtown and only uses one car.

That will change once the arena is up and running and the City plans to run double T line cars out to the arena, under the current schedule the trains run anywhere from 15-30 minutes apart. This will have to change even on non game nights because the demand for transportation will be increased due to more medical professionals and students moving into the UCSF Mission Bay neighborhood and that’s nothing to flush at.

Jerry Feitelberg is covering the new arena developments for the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings for http://www.sportsradioservice.com