SF News Lombard Street Home of Woman Who Fought to Save Redwood She Planted Hits Market For $5.2M A house on SF's famous Lombard Street — the "crookedest" block of Lombard, in fact — has just hit the market, and it has some stories attached to it.
SF News Urban Carpool Lanes Coming to Lombard, Park Presidio In SFMTA Pilot Program San Francisco is getting the first ever urban carpool lanes in California on two busy stretches of roadway that lead to and from the Golden Gate Bridge.
SF News Lombard Street Sucks Right Now Because of Caltrans Paving Work — Don't Use It Getting to or coming from the Golden Gate Bridge became a royal pain in the ass during daytime hours this week as Caltrans started its paving work on the section of Lombard Street between 101 and Van Ness. You should avoid this route at all costs.
SF News Toll and Reservation Plan For 'World's Crookedest Street' Vetoed By Newsom Saturday Night Last month, SF Officials passed (in assembly and senate) a bill that would create a “toll and reservation plan” for visitors who wished to snake down the world-famous section of Lombard Street. Newsom, however, vetoed the bill late last night.
SF News Crooked Lombard Street Thieves Turn Attraction Into Car Burglary Hotbed San Francisco tourists and locals alike have long suffered the slings, arrows, and shattered glass piles that come with car break-ins, with the thieves often smashing windows over items of negligible value. But
SF News Plan To Charge Toll On Crooked Stretch Of Lombard Screeches To Halt The beleaguered residents of Lombard Street's most popular stretch will remain under tourist siege for the near future, it appears, after a proposal to decrease tourist traffic via a toll system was stalled
SF News One Woman's Campaign To Landmark A Redwood Tree On Lombard Street Ends In Triumph Longtime San Francisco resident Meri Jaye, 96, has been squabbling with her neighbors over the fate of a 100-foot-tall redwood tree that she planted next her house along Lombard Street in 1962. These
SF News It Took Nine People And $110K To Come Up With Toll Idea For Lombard Street Those annoyed by a recent proposal to charge sightseers to travel down the crooked part of Lombard Street have still another reason to be ticked today, as a new report reveals a remarkable
SF News Supervisor Farrell Proposes FasTrak System, Reservations For Famous Lombard Street Block Living at a tourist attraction continues to takes its toll on Russian Hill neighbors with houses along the famous one-way crooked section of Lombard Street, and so they continue to demand that something,
SF News [Update] Lombard Street Closed As Major Collision Injures Five DIVISADERO AND LOMBARD IS CLOSED FOR AN UNDETERMINED AMOUNT OF TIME AVOID AREA @SFMTA pic.twitter.com/YIhK33bj8K— San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) December 1, 2016 Everyone is being told to avoid the area
SF News Mysterious Man Sets Bonfire In Garage Of SF Motel A guest at a San Francisco motel saved the day Monday, when he raised the alarm after spotting an illicit bonfire in the tourist attraction's garage. According to the San Francsico Police Department,
SF News Officials Consider Requiring Purchased Tickets To Drive Crooked Part Of Lombard Street As the residents who live along it well tell you, San Francisco's second most crooked street has a problem. Namely, that twisty block of Lombard Street is just too popular with tourists, and
SF News Video: Have You Seen This Guy Who Bit Off A Marina Bartender's Finger? Over a month after a violent altercation cost a bartender his finger, the San Francisco Police Department's search for the sharp-toothed suspect has been unsuccessful. So now the SFFD is hoping you can
SF News Deplorable Teens Beat And Rob Tourists Visiting Famous Stretch Of Lombard Street A pair of tourists visiting San Francisco's famous crooked stretch of Lombard Street had a decidedly unpleasant experience Thursday night, when both were struck and robbed by a team of thieves. Police say
SF News Lombard Street Will Get A Pedestrian-Focused Makeover Lombard Street and not just the famous twisty part is in store for some changes designed to improve pedestrian safety. The SFMTA intended to vote today, reports the Chronicle, on whether or not
Arts & Entertainment Real-Life Mario Kart Race On Lombard Street Helps Launch New Chubbies Content Arm Chubbies, San Francisco's foremost purveyor of short-shorts and chill-wear for dudes, hopes to fully associate their brand with weekend shenanigans, and that's where Editorial Director Grant Marek comes in. The mastermind behind the
SF News After Tourist Shooting, Supervisor Announces Lombard Street Ambassador Program by BJ Kraska San Francisco District 2 supervisor Mark Farrell has announced the launch of the Lombard Street Ambassador Program, a new initiative set to serve as a liaison between the city and
SF News San Francisco Men Identified As Suspects In Russian Hill Tourist Shooting A day after the shooting of a tourist near San Francisco's iconic crooked portion of Lombard Street, police have identified the men they say are responsible for the crime. As previously reported, at
SF News Handcuffed Man Dies On Lombard Street Sidewalk Following Confrontation With SFPD @kron4news pic.twitter.com/9vq5O9Fk7t— MAVolousONE (@MAVolousONE) July 30, 2015 A handcuffed man is dead and two San Francisco Police officers have been injured after a vehicle collision on Lombard Street took a
SF News One Pedestrian Dead, Another Injured In Separate S.F. Collisions One pedestrian has died and another has been hospitalized after two separate vehicle collisions in San Francisco in less than 12 hours. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Gordon Shyy, a
SF News Lombard Street Residents Finally Get Peace And Quiet In Form Of Massive Crowd Of Pedestrians After residents of the visitor-beloved stretch of Lombard known (dubiously) as the "world's crookedest" asked the SFMTA to consider keeping tourist traffic off their street, the MTA complied, launching a "pilot program" of
SF News Want To Visit Lombard's Crooked Stretch This Weekend? Then Take A Cab So, you have out-of-town guests, but they're too delicate for Fisherman's Wharf's Dungeon and too afraid of ghosts to go to Alcatraz. All they want to do it visit that crooked street they've
SF News San Francisco's World Famous Crooked Street Might Close Thought the debate regarding which street in San Francisco is the crookedest—some say Lombard, some say Vermont, some say Carlton B Goodlett (because City Hall, ha ha ha)—the twisty stretch of
Arts & Entertainment And Now, A Dizzying GIF Wall Of SF Landmarks Yeah, whoa. Back in 2012, filmmakers Kevin Parry and Andrea Nesbitt made this music video for a song by Kalle Mattson and a project they dubbed Hypno SF. They took footage of Sutro
SF News Man Relieved Of Camera While Taking Shot Of Lombard Street A 28-year-old mugging victim was relieved of his camera at gunpoint while shooting photos at the foot of San Francisco's most commonly photographed street last night. The man was at the bottom of
