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Director ripke has a comment. I think there is a potential conflict for me on this item because my firm represented a client that may be affected by this, so im looking for your consideration to sit this one out. Board policy, we would have to vote on that so i would vote we excuse director ripke from participating and acting on this item. Is there a second . Second. All in favor say aye. Thank you. Okay, director ripkin. Jerry robins from our Sustainable Department has been working on this for quite some time has a brief presentation we want to lay out before you which is how do we address th...

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 tra...

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 s...

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 ...

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 ...