Transit Agencies Boost Valkyries Parade Service as Citizen Lab Wins

San Francisco's waterfront and downtown corridors are preparing for a surge of regional commuters, visiting network engineers, and shifting retail tenancies this month. Regional rail and bus operators have scheduled extra capacity for Wednesday's championship parade along the Embarcadero, an international networking conference will honor mobile-security researchers in the city next week, and a nearly three-decade Mediterranean restaurant has consolidated its downtown footprint into three remaining storefronts.

Caltrain, BART, and SamTrans Add Service for Valkyries Championship Parade

According to NBC Bay Area, Caltrain, BART, and SamTrans are adding transit capacity for Wednesday's noon parade celebrating the Golden State Valkyries' first WNBA championship. The Valkyries clinched the title on Saturday at Chase Center with a 68-63 victory over the Atlanta Dream in Game 7 of the WNBA Finals, becoming the first expansion franchise in league history to capture a championship in its second season. The parade begins at the Ferry Building and concludes at 2nd and King streets.

Caltrain will operate two additional special trains for the celebration. Northbound train 901 will depart San Jose Diridon Station at 9:13 a.m. and make all regular stops to San Francisco, while southbound train 902 will depart San Francisco Station at 2:40 p.m. after the parade. In addition, Caltrain will run two afternoon trains as locals to manage crowd volume: train 914 departing San Francisco at 3:10 p.m. and train 916 departing at 3:40 p.m., with riders traveling south of Tamien Station connecting via services 814 and 816.

BART will run extra trains and longer train consists while adding station staff and security personnel. Riders can exit at Embarcadero or Montgomery stations to walk to the route, or exit at Powell Street Station and transfer at Union Square Station to Muni's southbound T Third line toward 4th and King streets. From San Mateo County, SamTrans Route 292 and peak-period routes FCX and EPX connect directly to the Salesforce Transit Center, while Route 292 and Route ECR also connect to Millbrae Station for Caltrain transfers.

Citizen Lab and Princeton Researchers Win IRTF Networking Prize at IETF-127

San Francisco will also host international internet standards researchers from November 14 to 20, 2026, during the IETF-127 conference. In an announcement published by Citizen Lab on November 3, 2026, Citizen Lab researchers Mona Wang, Jeffrey Knockel, and Zoë Reichert, working in collaboration with Princeton University researchers Prateek Mittal and Jonathan Mayer, won the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Applied Networking Research Prize.

The team was recognized for its empirical research examining the network security of Android mobile applications. Citizen Lab research fellow Mona Wang will accept the award on behalf of the co-authors during the IRTF Open Meeting at IETF-127 in San Francisco between November 14 and 20.

Oasis Grill Closes 100 1st Street Counter While Operating Three City Locations

Across from Salesforce Tower, a longtime Financial District lunch counter has closed following the expiration of its lease. As reported by Hoodline, Oasis Grill shut down its location at 100 1st Street at the end of October after landlord Kilroy Realty declined to renew the lease and leased the space to a competing restaurant. Co-owners Muna Azzghayer and Mohammad Zughaiyir, who have operated Oasis Grill since 1999 for almost 30 years—or 27 years since founding—said Kilroy Realty began showing the storefront to prospective tenants at the start of 2026.

In 2015, Azzghayer and Zughaiyir spent a full year and approximately $2 million on a renovation of the 100 1st Street space, including installing new gas lines. While the 1st Street counter has closed, Oasis Grill continues to operate three other San Francisco locations at 47 Drumm Street, 200 4th Street, and 711 Market Street. The closure follows other recent Bay Area lease expirations cited in local reporting, including Grande Crêperie at the Ferry Building (succeeded by Red Bay Coffee), Lord Stanley after a 10-year lease in May 2025, Ragazza in March 2025 after Friday sales trailed pre-pandemic levels by roughly $2,000, and Wursthall in San Mateo under general manager Xian Choi.