Street as well. And on hayes street as well so i dont see any advantage in restricting them only to that particular avenue. The problem of course with option 2 is that hayes street will simply become a kind of a boulevard for tour busses and there will be a lot of them. And i certainly wouldnt want to be a resident on that street under those conditions. I urge you to support option no. 1 because i believe that those tour busses are completely out of scale to the neighborhoods in which they navigate the streets and they are a hazard to all vehicular traffic as well as pedestrian and bicycle traffic. There is no way that you can logically expect a bus that advertises that if you think this bus is big, you should see our airplanes, could possibly make a reasonable turn on any of the antique streets that surround the area. So i believe that you need to seriously to eliminate them completely from the Historic District and allow the Tour Companies to come up with smaller options that benefit
Good afternoon, mr. Nolan, i, john alex lowell, a Senior Member of the advisory committee, appointed by two mayors in the city, to support option 1. My point is on Pedestrian Safety. For those who are defined to be vulnerable in the Pedestrian Safety strategy youth and seniors and people with disabilities. The turning busses at the intersections of hayes, steiner, fillmorehayes, fell and scott and fell and divisadero arch into the traffic of the opposing coming lanes of traffic which impairs crossing youths, which is what val spoke of, she is the assistant of supervisor london breed, and the seniors and people with disabilities who are traveling on hayes street. There is a hospital on hayes street and there is mercy terrace Senior Housing which used to be the Southern Pacific Railway hospital at the intersection of hayes and baker. They are traveling down hayes street to go to the intersection of 7th and market, which is the closest major bus lane intersection for access to the Social
The residents in the building nearby have complained about noise and vibration from the busses and they would like to see the zone removed. Parking loss is also an issue. So some of these enclosed busses are still operating around alamo square. The picture on the left is pierce street along ida b school. The busses there seem to think its okay to stop and block traffic. The busses here have stopped and you can see people crossing the street. Theres really no place for the busses to park legally at alamo square right now and some of the hop on hop off busses have returned since we did our Data Collection in june so some of those double decker busses are back. So we have two proposals for your consideration today. Option 1 is the request from the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association that all streets within that shaded area be restricted to commercial vehicles with 9 or more seats with the exception of employer busses, the Neighborhood Association does not want to prohibit the google typ
For many people thats not a way that will work for them, for example a business person who is here for meetings may only have a couple hours free time to experience the city. Someone who has arrived for a longer visit may like the idea of an introductory tour to give them an overview so in those cases guided tours such as we provide are a terrific way. We take very seriously our responsibility to deliver high quality tours for our visitors. No. 1 they are paying customers and no. 2 we are in many ways ambassadors for the city. It feels like as neighborhood after neighborhood becomes off limit to tour vehicles pretty soon were going to be restricted to Market Street van ness and lombard going to the bridge. You cant experience the real character of San Francisco just on those streets. The neighbors have very legitimate concerns but option 2 is a legitimate compromise. Good afternoon, my name is e. J. Potente, i live on fillmore street which is on the route of the double ducker tour buss
Advertises that if you think this bus is big, you should see our airplanes, could possibly make a reasonable turn on any of the antique streets that surround the area. So i believe that you need to seriously to eliminate them completely from the Historic District and allow the Tour Companies to come up with smaller options that benefit the scale of the neighborhood and i thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Michael lyons. Good afternoon, commissioner, members of the board. I am a Property Owner of the second floor on mccallister street and id like to speak about these open top busses. Can you hear me all right . Thats good. Because the way it seems that hearing level goes down every year. Every year the buses are louder and louder. Ask me to quiet down, i could ask them to quiet down, ive tried and they get louder and louder. Im on the second floor, i work from home and this is the kind of imposition i am faced with, people looking and photographing, and the amplified noise coming right