Bay Area Updates
Berkeley Starts $100 Fines for Mask Violations
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates Thanks to the Daily Cal for letting us know that the Berkeley City Council approved penalties for mask violations this week. The City Council approved an ordinance allowing the city to issue people and businesses fines for violating the Berkeley’s COVID-19 public orders. This includes requirements to use facial coverings while more...
SFO Launches “Quiet Terminals”
Bay Area Updates Thank you KRON4 for letting us know that San Francisco International Airport just announced updates to their quiet terminal program hoping to make travel more relaxing. As travelers return to the San Francisco International Airport (SFO), changes in the airport experience resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic will be immediately visible, such more...
San Jose State Reopens In-person Classes Today
Bay Area Updates, What's Closed / What's Open Thank you KRON4 for letting us know that San José State University will reopen for in-person classes on September 16. The SJSU Newsroom site and SJSU’s Twitter posted on September 15, that due to air quality levels around San José State University improvement in the past 24 hours and based on more...
SF to Give $1,000 a Month to New Mothers
Bay Area Updates, Brand New Mayor London N. Breed, in partnership with Expecting Justice, today announced the launch of the Abundant Birth Project, a pilot program that provides targeted basic income to women during pregnancy and after giving birth. Read the full press release. The pilot will provide an unconditional monthly income supplement of $1,000 to approximately more...
de Young & Legion of Honor Announce Reopenings
Bay Area Updates, Museums / Cultural Institutions, What's Closed / What's Open The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announce the reopening of the de Young and Legion of Honor museums, following their temporary closure under the shelter-in-place order mandated by the City of San Francisco (pending City approval). de Young – Opening September 25 The de Young museum is scheduled to open to the more...
Help Improve Bayview Hunters Point: SFMTA’s Virtual Open House
Bay Area Updates, Virtual Events The SFMTA will be holding a Virtual Open House on the Bayview Hunters Point Quick-Build Project for Evans Avenue, Hunters Point Boulevard, and Innes Avenue. This project is an effort to improve pedestrian and cyclist visibility while reducing opportunities for reckless driving by implementing cost-effective and temporary design treatments that more...
JetBlue Expands at SFO w/ 4 New Routes
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Travel JetBlue, known for their spacious legroom and free wifi, just announced their expansion at SFO with 4 new routes. In summer 2019, JetBlue relocated their operations at San Francisco Airport to Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and started using their own gates, prime for expansion. Previously, Jetblue only flew to San Francisco more...
No Indoor Dining & Bars In SF Until At Least “Mid-October”
Bay Area Updates, Outdoor Dining, What's Closed / What's Open When San Francisco announced its new reopening timeline on September 1st, there wasn’t any mention of indoor dining or bars. Today the city revised the reopening timeline and finally addresses this issue, but still without many specifics. According to the timeline released on September 10th, indoor restaurants and bars (whether indoors more...
SF’s “Free Wifi” Prank Has Insanely Long Password
Bay Area Updates, Wow Thanks to SF Gate and The Indian Express for giving us great background about this pretty funny “free wifi” flyer a viral San Francisco prankster posted a few weeks ago. Pablo Rohat, an SF-based digital creative artist known for cheeky pranks, posted a video of a flyer promising free wifi with more...
Twitter Needs Roommates for its Massive HQ in SF
Bay Area Updates Thanks to the SF Chronicle for letting us know that Twitter is looking for subtenants for its San Francisco Headquarters as its own employees are staying home. The tech company at has listed nearly 105,000 square feet of 1 Tenth Street for sublease. This is after the company adopted a permanent more...
SFO’s New Longest Flight: 17.5 Hours to India
Bay Area Updates, Travel SFO has a new longest flight. SFGate reported that United Airlines announced a brand new nonstop flight from San Francisco to Bangalore, India that’s 8,701 miles. The flight time clocks in at 17.5 hours. It beats the current longest flight from San Francisco to Singapore by 250 miles. It’s the first more...
SF’s Insane Dark Orange Skies: Day Turns to Night
Bay Area Updates, Fire Updates Well, this is weird… this morning the street lights were on and the sky burned a dark orange as if we were on the surface of Mars. Thanks to SF Gate and SF Dept. of Emergency Management for giving us the lowdown on why day turned to night and the sky more...
SF Parks Just Got Adorable Social-Distancing “Hearts”
Bay Area Updates, Brand New The San Francisco Parks Alliance kicked off their new “Heart Your Parks” gratitude campaign today for the month of September, which includes “heart-shaped social distanced circles” going in at Parks throughout the city. The first parks to get “hearts” include Alamo Square, Conservatory of Flowers Lawn, Glen Canyon Field, and (hopefully) more...
SF’s Residential Parking Time Limits Return Sept. 14th
Bay Area Updates Don’t get a ticket. Make sure you have a valid residential parking permit or be prepared to move your car. Residential parking time limits in San Francisco return on September 14. To make more parking available to neighborhood residents as more businesses open, enforcement of parking time limits in all Residential more...
New Tolls & Lower Speed Limits Coming to Bay Area Freeways?
Bay Area Updates Thank you SFGATE for letting us know that new tolls are reportedly coming to ‘many if not most’ Bay Area freeways. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. Earlier this month, the agency sent a letter to all more...
