Silas Valentino

San Francisco

Travel Editor at SFGate

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Vicious trend claims another California music festival

1 week ago | sfgate.com | Silas Valentino

A small yet beloved music festival hosted in a remote Sierra Nevada Gold Rush town announced it’s bidding farewell following a 16-year run. In June, after the last person dusts themself off and leaves the riverbanks by Belden, a tiny town in Plumas County, the Sunset Campout festival is pulling the plug.
‘End of a cycle’: Music fest with SF roots hosts final bash in Sierra

1 week ago | sacbee.com | Silas Valentino

A small yet beloved music festival hosted in a remote Sierra Nevada Gold Rush town announced it's bidding farewell following a 16-year run. In June, after the last person dusts themself off and leaves the riverbanks by Belden, a tiny town in Plumas County, the Sunset Campout festival is pulling the plug.
Horrible bottleneck on Bay Area bridge about to improve

1 week ago | sfgate.com | Silas Valentino

A Bay Area bridge with a notorious bottleneck is about to drastically improve as a transit agency begins work on readjusting its westbound approach and removing antiquated toll booths. After the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge loses its toll booth plaza — becoming the first state-owned bridge in California to embrace open-road tolling — the Metropolitan Transportation Commission said it will lighten congestion for commuters.
You're about to be screwed if you haven't gotten California REAL ID yet

2 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Silas Valentino

Within an hour of opening on Monday morning, the DMV in San Francisco had a line of people out the door waiting their turn to renew registrations or, with exactly a month until the May 7 deadline, complete their application for a REAL ID. “We knew this was coming,” Fabian Venegas told SFGATE from the back of the line. The San Francisco engineer was at the DMV to help his mom with her car registration and said he has an upcoming appointment to finalize his REAL ID.
‘We really wish this was an April Fools’ joke’: Storm grips Tahoe

3 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Silas Valentino

LATEST April 1, 5 p.m. Caltrans said it has released traffic on U.S. Highway 50 and that it is advising travelers to take caution, as "snow showers are expected throughout the afternoon and evening."April 1, 2:30 p.m. After closing Interstate 80 through the Sierra Nevada for more than three hours, Caltrans announced that vehicle traffic has been released in both directions. "TAKE IT SLOW and expect delays!" the agency wrote on X.
'We really wish this was an April Fools' joke': Storm grips Tahoe

3 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Silas Valentino

LATEST April 1, 2:30 p.m. After closing Interstate 80 through the Sierra Nevada for more than three hours, Caltrans announced that vehicle traffic has been released in both directions. “TAKE IT SLOW and expect delays!” the agency wrote on X. Traffic on U.S. Highway 50 is still being held between of Kyburz and Meyers. April 1, 2:06 p.m. A cold front moving across Northern California is creating havoc on highways in the Sierra Nevada.
'Go back to Mexico': Racist note shakes server at California airport

3 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Silas Valentino

An unknown couple left behind a racist note for a restaurant worker at the Planet Hollywood inside Los Angeles International Airport last month.
How to visit the forbidden lake that started San Francisco

3 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Silas Valentino

The 23,000 acres beyond the barrier is not private but remains largely restricted: The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission owns, manages and protects the space for the city’s major water reserves. Water that flows from millions of Bay Area taps traces back to this coastal region south of the city limits. The Peninsula Watershed contains the San Andreas and Crystal Springs reservoirs, both easily visible from Highway 280.
'It'll affect all of us': Santa Cruz closes bridge, limits coastal travel

3 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Silas Valentino

A crucial bridge connecting Santa Cruz County near the coast closed this week for a major retrofit project, and for the next few years, the Central Coast city is partially blocked off from communities like Capitola on the eastern side of the county. Visitors and locals traveling along the Santa Cruz coast can expect snarled traffic and detours until at least 2028 as the city completes a seismic retrofit on the Murray Street Bridge. The westbound lane permanently closed to all traffic Monday.
Pilots at SFO who forgot passports expose weird law

4 weeks ago | fresnobee.com | Silas Valentino

San Francisco International Airport was recently central to consecutive abnormal events, starting when a United Airlines pilot forgot their passport before embarking on an international flight. A week later, another United pilot also forgot their passport, and the flight to China from Los Angeles was diverted to SFO. The pilots' lapses highlight that the Transportation Department does not have any specific rules requiring airlines to compensate passengers for delays due to human error.

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