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Mini Golf at Stagecoach Greens
Come visit the City’s only outdoor mini golf course and experience the history, invention and fun of San Francisco.
For further information please visit:
https://www.stagecoachgreens.com/
Explore the course and purchase tickets:
https://www.stagecoachgreens.com/purchase/index
Stay safe!
The Exploratorium Reopening on July 1st
Museum Hours* Reopening July 1
Wednesday–Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Thursday (Ages 18+): 6:00–10:00 p.m.
Sunday (Daytime Members/Donors Only): 10:00 a.m.–Noon
Sunday: Noon–5:00 p.m.
Monday and Tuesday: Closed
*Except select days
Plan Your Visit
Getting Here
Pier 15 (Embarcadero @ Green St.)
San Francisco, CA 94111
For further information Please visit:
https://www.exploratorium.edu/
For tickets:
https://transact.exploratorium.edu/ticketing/ticketing.aspx
Stay Safe!
CA’s Vaccine Eligibility Expands to Everyone on April 15th
Vaccinations open for those 50+ on April 1st, and 16+ on April 15th.
Governor Gavin Newsom just announced expanded vaccine eligibility for the state of California.
Vaccinations opening for all Californians aged 50 and up April 1st, and 16 and up April 15th.
The state is expanding who is eligible to get the vaccine based on expected supply increases. It will still take months to get every Californian vaccinated who wants to be, but millions are being vaccinated each week.
Read more at Covid19.CA.gov.
40% of San Franciscans (16+) Are Vaccinated
Over 300,000 San Franciscans have received at least one dose of a vaccine
Mayor London Breed announced today, March 25, 2021, that over 300,000 San Franciscans have received at least one dose of a vaccine.
This is approximately 40% of SF residents over 16 years old.
Will SF meet its lofty goal to vaccinate every resident before June 30th? That’s 900,000 residents 16 years or older within 6 month.
Stay safe!
SF Officially in “Orange” Reopening Tier (March 24 at 8am)
Bars can finally reopen outdoors, plus expansion of indoor dining, museums, movie theaters reopenings
San Francisco Reopens And Expands Businesses And Activities As It Moves Into The State’s Orange Tier
Beginning Wednesday, March 24, San Francisco will reopen indoor offices, outdoor bars, and indoor recreation, as well as expand outdoor entertainment, and a number of activities in accordance with State restrictions and additional local limits
San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed and Director of Health Dr. Grant Colfax today announced that San Francisco will resume most businesses and activities that are allowed by the State in the orange tier for counties with moderate transmission levels, following the City’s assignment to that tier. With some exceptions, San Francisco’s reopening will align with what is permitted by the State. New and expanded businesses and activities can reopen starting Wednesday, March 24 at 8:00am, as long as they comply with required safety protocols.
Learn More About The Orange Tier
- San Francisco’s reopening updates will be available online beginning March 24, 2021 at SF.gov/reopening.
- SF To Enter “Orange Tier” March 24. Here’s What Can Reopen
As of today, March 23, San Francisco has met the State’s criteria to advance to the less restrictive orange tier on the Blueprint for a Safer Economy, based on its COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and other health equity metrics. With this move, San Francisco will open non-essential offices up to 25% capacity, bars and breweries for outdoor service, and some indoor family recreation up to 25% capacity. San Francisco has also established a timeline to resume outdoor arts, theater, and music performances and festivals for audiences of up to 50 people beginning April 1 and is working to create guidelines for outdoor spectator sports and large outdoor entertainment venues as well.
Nearly 40% of San Francisco Has Received 1st Vaccine Dose
Further supporting San Francisco’s reopening is the City’s ongoing vaccination efforts. At this time, nearly 40% of San Francisco’s population has received the first dose of vaccine, as have 77% of the City’s residents over 65. Last week, the City began allowing anyone over the age of 16 with a qualifying underlying health condition to receive a vaccine and has the capacity to vaccinate 20,000 people a day. Although limitations to consistent COVID-19 vaccine supply remain a challenge preventing the City from distributing vaccines to its full capacity, it continues to make significant progress toward vaccinating people who live and work in San Francisco.The City is making headway in minimizing the risk presented by the coronavirus through its vaccination efforts and its balanced approach to reopening and harm reduction behaviors. This allows key activities central to the City’s economy, such as offices, dining, and some forms of entertainment to begin to reopen. While the City is updating its health order to come into near alignment with the State reopening guidelines, it continues to limit some activities, particularly those where people to gather indoors without masks or for extended amounts of time, in order to minimize the risk to public health.
Similarly, San Francisco continues to focus on harm reduction approaches to managing public health. Health officials continue to emphasize the need for masking and social distancing by all, including those who have been vaccinated when outside their homes, prioritizing the reopening of outdoor activities, and encouraging businesses to have outdoor options wherever possible. People at risk for severe illness with COVID-19, such as unvaccinated older adults and individuals with health risks, and members of their household are urged to continue taking strong precautions by choosing lower-risk options whenever possible.
New Reopening Guidelines announced soonWith this in mind, the San Francisco Department of Public Health will issue final health and safety guidelines to reopen activities allowed under the orange tier of the State’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy, with some additional local restrictions, effective as of 8:00am Wednesday, March 24, 2021. The City will post the revised Health Order with detailed requirements to its webpage by the end of the day today March 23, 2021. Under the new Health Order, the following activities will be opened or expanded.
Activities to Resume Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2021
The following activities may be reopened:
- Offices
- Indoor non-essential offices of 20 or more employees may reopen at up to 25% capacity, including meeting and conference rooms at 25% (though use of conference rooms should be minimized).
- Indoor offices of fewer than 20 employees must reduce their capacity to whatever allows for required 6 feet of physical distancing between employees at all times.
- Indoor family entertainment
- Indoor bowling alleys, mini golf, pool halls, and other family entertainment where individuals may readily maintain at least 6 feet of distance may open up to 25% capacity with groups consisting of members of one household.
- Concessions are allowed following indoor dining rules in a separate room or with 12 feet of space from other activities.
- Indoor recreation
- Indoor recreational facilities may open to 25% capacity up to 100 people.
- Up to 12 participants from up to 3 households may participate in low-contact indoor recreation (and from up to 4 households in the case of indoor tennis and pickleball).
- Indoor organized sports for youth and adults may resume with stable groups of up to 16 participants, with no household limitation. For moderate- or high-contact sport involving middle school, high school or adult participants, regular testing and a COVID-19 prevention plan must be in place. Elementary age children may not participate in moderate or high contact sports. Spectators are not allowed in any context except the necessary supervision of children in youth sports. Adults may only participate in up to two organized activities at a time, and only one activity if it is a moderate- or high-contact sport. Youth may only participate in one organized indoor activity at a time.
- Competitions may only occur in county or with teams from adjacent counties (i.e., Marin, San Mateo, and Alameda) in an equal or less restrictive tier. Consistent with State guidelines, travel for out of state tournaments may not take place.
- Indoor ice hockey, wrestling, and water polo remain prohibited.
- Indoor gatherings
- Up to 12 people from 3 households may gather in a private residence, with face coverings and with ventilation measures and distancing urged. Such gatherings are discouraged unless they are gatherings with vaccinated individuals consistent with CDC guidelines. If possible gatherings should take place outdoors.
- Outdoor bars, breweries, wineries and distilleries
- Bars, breweries, wineries and distilleries may open for outdoor, seated table service of up to 6 people at a table without the provision of a meal. Guests may not mingle between tables. Indoor bars, breweries and wineries without meal service remain closed.
The following activities may expand their operating capacity:
- Dining
- Indoor dining at restaurants, bars serving meals, cafes and coffee shops, hotels, museums, and food courts in shopping malls may expand to 50% capacity up to 200 patrons. Table size may expand to up to 6 guests from up to 3 households. Service must end by 11:00 pm.
- Outdoor dining may remove restrictions of number of households seated at a table and may allow group reservations of up to two tables outdoors (12 people maximum). Tables remain limited to 6 guests. Tables may be seated outdoors for drink service only.
- Gyms and Fitness
- Indoor gyms, fitness centers and climbing walls may expand to 25% capacity up to 100 patrons, including youth patrons under the age of 18.
- Group fitness classes including cardio may resume up to lesser of 25% capacity or 100 people.
- Indoor locker rooms and showers may open with the implementation of a DPH approved ventilation measure. Indoor sauna, steam rooms and hot tubs remain closed.
- The 25-person limitation to outdoor fitness classes is lifted as long as physical distancing between participants can be maintained.
- Retail
- Stand-alone retail, shopping centers, low-contact retail services, equipment rental, financial institutions, laundromats, etc. may expand indoor customer capacity to 50%.
- Personnel may handle customer-supplied items such as reusable bags, jars, mugs, and other containers.
- Personal services
- Indoor personal services may expand to 50% customer capacity.
o Seated food or beverage concessions may resume for groups of audience members of up to 6 people from up to 3 households so long as there is 6 feet of distance between them and other audience members and a DPH approved ventilation measure is in place.
- If there are multiple auditoriums, each auditorium is limited to the lesser of 50% or 200 people provided the theater complex does not exceed 50% capacity.
Activities that will resume at a later date:
- Outdoor arts, music, and theater performances and festivals
- Starting April 1, organized outdoor arts and performance events may take place with audiences of up to 50 people with a Health and Safety Plan submitted at least 5 days before the event.
- Assigned seats are not required but social distancing between audience members must be maintained.
- Seated concessions are allowed following outdoor dining or bar health guidelines.
- Outdoor spectator sports and large outdoor entertainment facilities
- Starting April 1, outdoor spectator sports and live entertainment venues with assigned seating may reopen with capacity restrictions and other operating guidelines with an approved Health and Safety plan.
- Overnight Youth Camps
- Starting June 1, overnight youth camps may resume following State guidance.
Stay safe!
SFMTA Weekend Transit and Traffic Advisory for Weekend of Saturday, March 6, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 4, 2021
Contact: Erica Kato
Mediarelations@sfmta.com
San Francisco–The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) releases the following upcoming event-related traffic and transit impacts for this weekend, from Friday, March 5 through Sunday, March 7, 2021 .
For real-time updates, follow us on https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni or visit SFMTA.com/EmailText to sign up for real-time text messages or email alerts.
For details of Muni re-routes, visit SFMTA.com/Updates. This website will be updated when it is closer to the event date.
For additional notifications and agency updates, subscribe to our blog, Moving SF for daily or weekly updates.
Federal Law Requires Face Masks on Muni
To help stop the spread of COVID-19, federal law requires wearing a mask in Muni stations, when purchasing a ticket and while waiting for, boarding, riding or exiting transit. Masks are also required on paratransit and in taxis. Violations can result in denial of boarding or removal from Muni and may carry federal penalties. Masks do not include face shields and should be a solid piece of material without slits, exhalation valves, or punctures. Face coverings like scarves and bandanas do not meet this requirement. For more information, please visit sfmta.com/COVID.
CONSTRUCTION WORK AND OTHER UPDATES
UPDATE: Van Ness Improvement Project
Friday, March 5, between the hours of 8 p.m. and 7 a.m.: Crews are scheduled to work on traffic improvements, remaining sewer work, overhead power installations, light pole setting and related work at the following locations:
- Van Ness between Francisco and Chestnut streets
- Van Ness between Chestnut and Lombard streets
Work
that requires reducing Van Ness Avenue to one lane in each direction will be
limited to nighttime hours. Construction scheduling is subject to change due to
weather delays or unexpected field conditions. For more project details and the
latest construction updates, visit SFMTA.com/VanNess.
UPDATE: L Taraval
Improvement Project
Starting
on Monday, March 15 and will continue for about eight days, street
repaving will take place on Taraval Street progressively from Sunset Boulevard
to 46th Avenue. Traffic control including temporary street closures
and parking restrictions will apply where work is occurring. To accommodate
the paving and street repair work, the L bus service will be rerouted
onto Ulloa Street starting on Monday, March 8 . Temporary bus stops can be
found on Ulloa Street parallel to the stops on Taraval Street.
Since
Friday, Jan. 22, track replacement work started on Taraval
Street between 40th and 41st avenues. For track replacement work, traffic is being
detoured at the intersections of 40th and 41st avenues at
all times of the day until track replacement work along these segments are
complete. During active construction hours, parking on both sides of the blocks
will be temporarily restricted to give the crew the safety clearance they need
to demo and replace the aged tracks in the center of the road and allow
eastbound/westbound vehicular traffic. Parking will be returned at the end of
each workday along the impacted blocks.
Since
Aug. 2019, the traffic pattern on lower Great Highway between
Ulloa and Santiago streets has been changed. The northbound travel lane on
lower Great Highway has been rerouted to 48th Avenue for two blocks between
Ulloa and Santiago streets. The southbound travel lane will continue on lower
Great Highway as usual. This will be in effect until project completion in fall
2021. For project details, visit SFMTA.com/LTaraval Project.
ONGOING
ONGOING: Muni Service During
the COVID-19 Shelter-In-Place Order
Until further notice, Muni buses will continue to
serve the K Ingleside, L Taraval, M Ocean View and N Judah Metro lines.
To
learn more information about bus substitution for Muni rail lines visit Muni’s Bus Substitution for All Rail
Lines. For information about upcoming service changes, read our latest service change blog.
Some
Muni routes have been modified under the current health order. For details of
Muni’s individual lines/routes, visit each route’s webpage or the Muni Core Service Plan.
- Core Routes in Service: J Church (Balboa Park to Church & Duboce streets); K Ingleside (Balboa Park to Embarcadero); T Third (Sunnydale to Embarcadero); L Taraval Bus (all buses) (SF Zoo to Embarcadero); N Judah Bus (Ocean Beach to 4th and King streets); M Ocean View Bus (Balboa Park to West Portal); 1 California; 5 Fulton; 7 Noriega; 8 Bayshore (rerouted to Stockton); 9 San Bruno, 9R San Bruno Rapid (weekday only); 12 Folsom/Pacific (Financial District to Russian Hill), 14 Mission; 14R Mission Rapid; 15 Bayview-Hunters Point Express; 19 Polk; 22 Fillmore; 24 Divisadero; 25 Treasure Island; 27 Bryant (modified route); 28 19th Avenue (Daly City BART to California Street & 6th Avenue); 29 Sunset; 30 Stockton; 33 Ashbury-18th Street; 37 Corbett (Twin Peaks and Van Ness & Market Street); 38 Geary; 38R Geary Rapid; 43 Masonic (Geary Boulevard to Crocker Amazon) ; 44 O’Shaughnessy; 45 Union-Stockton; 48 Quintara/24th Street (20th at 3rd streets and West Portal Station); 49 Van Ness/Mission (extended from North Point to Powell and Beach); 54 Felton (Daly City BART to Hunters Point); 55 Dogpatch; and 67 Bernal Heights.
- Late-night Owl routes start at 10 p.m. (instead of 1 a.m.) All regular Owl routes are in operation, except 5 Fulton and 48 Quintara/24th Street.
- The following routes are running 24 hours a day or providing special Owl Service: L Owl; N Owl; 14 Mission; 22 Fillmore; 24 Divisadero; 25 Treasure Island; 38 Geary; 44 O’Shaughnessy; 90 San Bruno Owl; 91 3rd Street/19th Avenue Owl.
ONGOING:
Geary Rapid Project
As
part of Verizon’s private facility expansion, excavation is planned within the
project limits of the City’s Geary Rapid Project,
which includes water main replacement and surface transportation improvements
such as sidewalk extensions at intersection corners.
The
following construction forecast is subject to change due to weather delays or
unexpected field conditions:
From
Saturday, Feb. 20 through Saturday, March 13, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. (on
Saturdays only):
In
preparation for the installation of conduits for future fiber-optic cables,
crews will perform “potholing” – digging small exploratory holes to verify the locations
of existing underground utilities in order to minimize potential conflicts.
There
may be partial lane closures and temporary parking restrictions as a result of
this work.
ONGOING: 19th Avenue (CA Route 1) Combined City
Project
San Francisco Public Works is leading a
multi-agency project to replace aging infrastructure and improve safety along
19th Avenue between Holloway Avenue and Lincoln Way.
Construction work for the first segment of this
project along 19th Avenue between Lincoln Way and Noriega Street has begun.
As part of the 19th
Avenue Combined City Project , the SFMTA will implement transit priority and
safety improvements for people walking along the route of the 28 19th Avenue.
The improvements will make it safer to walk, remove stops to make transit
service more reliable, and enhance customers’ experiences—on and off the bus.
To improve safety along 19th Avenue,
the SFMTA will: 1) install pedestrian bulbs at 19 intersections and
transit bulbs at 13 intersections; 2) modify traffic and pedestrian
signals to give people who walk more time to cross the street; and 3) extend
the bus zone at one intersection. Installing transit bulbs allow Muni vehicles
to stop for passengers without having to pull out of traffic, and pedestrian
bulbs increase the visibility at intersections of people who walk.
As
part of the project, seven Muni stops were removed on 19th Avenue between Irving Street and Ocean
Avenue on Oct. 17. The following Muni routes have been
affected with the stop removal:
- 28 19th Avenue
- 91 3rd Street/19th Avenue Owl
To find additional information about the transit reliability and pedestrian safety components, visit sfmta.com/28Rapid. For overall project information, visit sfpublicworks.org/19th-Avenue.
ONGOING: Shared Spaces Program
The city’s multi-agency Shared Spaces program opened some parts of streets in San Francisco to create public space for outdoor dining, retail and physical distancing. The program allows the use of sidewalks, full or partial streets, or other nearby public spaces like parks and plazas for restaurant pick-up and other neighborhood retail activity, as allowed by San Francisco’s Public Health Order. For details, locations and updates on street closures related to Shared Spaces visit SFMTA.com/SharedSpaces.
ONGOING: Essential Trip Card Discount Program
The SFMTA’s temporary special program, Essential Trip Card (ETC) Program, will assist people with disabilities and older adults to make essential trips under Muni’s temporary transit changes. The program provides two to three round trips at an 80% discount per month, i.e. rider pays $6 to receive a value of $30 or pays $12 to receive a $60 value. The discount is limited to a value of $60 taxi service per month per customer.
To qualify for the program: customer must be either age 65 or older or an adult with disabilities. Eligible adults may apply for the ETC program by calling 311 and mentioning the program. Staff will be available between 9 a.m. and 4:45 p.m., Monday through Friday. Visit https://www.sfmta.com/etc for additional details and for a list of San Francisco taxi companies, visit https://www.sfmta.com/taxi/directory.
SFMTA’s pre-existing Shop-a-Round program that offers registered seniors and people with disabilities personalized assistance and rides to and from grocery stores and farmers markets is still available and will continue post public health order. For more information, visit https://www.sfmta.com/shop-round.
Stay safe!