Drivers can reserve spots up to six months ahead at 16 of the city's 22 publicly owned garages. The agency says city-run garages are generally 30-40% cheaper than private lots, and the city offers flat-rate event parking at its Civic Center and Performing Arts garages. SFMTA notes that reservations are not available at the 16th & Hoff and Pierce Street garages or the Kezar Lot, and they will soon be available at the Japantown, Portsmouth Square, and Music Concourse garages.
A rollover crash on Potrero Hill that may have only involved one vehicle led to an emergency alert, a fallen tree in the roadway, and disrupted Muni service Monday near Zuckerberg SF General Hospital. The crash occurred around 11:20 am at Potrero Avenue and 23rd Street, as the Chronicle reports, and involved a vehicle rolling over and a street tree being knocked down into the roadway. The circumstances and number of vehicles involved has not been reported.
A Lyft passenger who had apparently been in some sort of verbal and physical altercation with his driver was killed after engaging the driver in a foot chase on I-80 in Vallejo early Saturday. The man was killed while running on the shoulder of the eastbound freeway near Tennessee Street by an Audi, and the driver said she did not see him until it was too late.
Every Saturday, the de Young offers free general admission to the permanent galleries to Bay Area residents. Please note that admission to any special exhibits is not included nor discounted and will require the full admission price. Saturdays feature engaging art experiences for the entire family, including art-making, gallery guides, and tours with discussion and sketching in the permanent galleries.
SF tourism has experienced two years of straight growth for the first time since 2019, with an additional 500,000 tourists expected to visit the city in 2026 compared to 2025, but hotel occupancy rates are still much lower than pre-pandemic levels.
The closure is in effect between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard and is scheduled to last through the weekend. It marks the second time the roadway has been shut down so crews can complete repaving work. One southbound lane will remain open for public transit and emergency vehicles.
“There's a lighthouse at this national seashore that's north of San Francisco,” host Ken Jennings read as the screen flashed a short panoramic video of the famed Point Reyes Lighthouse. While some Californian viewers might have shouted the answer from their sofas, the three contestants stood blankly until the time ran out. “It's called Point Reyes,” Jennings explained before the contestants moved on to the next clue.
Safeway recently eliminated handles on its paper bags, citing supply chain shortages, but after receiving complaints, the company has since restocked the original bags with handles at some of its locations. The customer backlash was reportedly swift over Safeway's decision to switch to paper bags without handles. While Hollywood would like to believe that handleless paper bags persist throughout the ages, most people consider them a thing of the past. They're a pain to carry, plain and simple.
The Conservatory of Flowers, located in Golden Gate Park, offers an intimate, up-close experience with nearly 2,000 species of rare, exotic, and endangered plants from more than 50 different countries. Opened in 1879, the wood and glass greenhouse is the oldest existing conservatory of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
