You can find Pit Stops in 31 locations around San Francisco.
Bayview-Hunters Point
Castro
Market and Castro streets (JCDecaux) – Daily – 7am to 7pm
Civic Center
Grove and Larkin streets (JCDecaux) - Daily – 7am to 7pm
The Embarcadero
Embarcadero Plaza (JCDecaux) - Daily – 9am to 5pm
Haight
Lower Polk
Myrtle and Larkin streets (JCDecaux) – Daily – 8am to 8pm
Mid-Market
Mission
North Beach
Washington Square at Union St. (JCDecaux) – Daily – 9am to 5pm
Ocean Beach
Great Highway near Beach Chalet – Mon-Fri – 12pm to 7pm
Outer Sunset
Judah and La Playa streets (Rec Park) – Daily – 8am to 8pm
SoMa
Tenderloin
San Francisco Public Works’ pioneering Pit Stop program provides clean and safe public toilets, as well as used-needle receptacles and dog waste stations, in San Francisco's most impacted neighborhoods. All the Pit Stop facilities are staffed by paid attendants who help ensure that the bathrooms are well maintained and used for their intended purpose.
The units have running water, soap and hand towels, and are maintained to a standard where parents and guardians would feel comfortable bringing their children.
The program began in San Francisco’s Tenderloin in 2014 at three sites, sparked by a plea from neighborhood middle schoolers who were fed up with having to carefully navigate around human waste on their walk to school. Today, the Pit Stop operates at 33 sites in 13 neighborhoods. Street-cleaning data drives the locations of the Pit Stops, putting them where they’re needed most.
The popular program, which was recognized by Harvard Kennedy School for innovation and serves as a national model deployed by other cities, provides an alternative to using our streets and sidewalks as a toilet.
The result:
Public Works manages the Pit Stop program. Nonprofit grantees, Civic and Hunters Point Family, staff them.