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Challenges we are facing, people in the Alamos Square are facing. Good afternoon, jerry robins, i have a brief presentation on the background on Alamos Square. Get the presentation going. Its a very popular destination for visitors to San Francisco. In the last several years we have seen a big increase in the hop on hop off tour bus industry, these are busses that sell individual fares and allow people to get on and off the bus at particular destinations and get on a later bus. Its become very popular. Four or five Different Companies that operate this type of service in San Francisco. In sept...

Mitchells problem at some point. Mr. Chairman, moving on to your consent calendar, these items are kered to be routine unless a member of the public or member of the board wishes to have an item severed or considered separately. I will not read them all but no member of the public or member of the board has asked an item be severed. Item 11, the regular calendar amending the transportation code to either restrict commercial Passenger Vehicles with more than 9 seats, accepting employer shuttle busses on street segments on the Alamos Square neighborhood and making traffic and parking modificatio...

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 h...

The Social Security building at the corner of mission and 7th street. So the point of pedestrian safety, as i live there and i hear the busses coming by every day and i fear for the safety of pedestrians crossing those intersections where the busses turn. I strongly urge you to support option 1. Do not allow tour busses in that zone. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Jason collins, ej patente followed by michael lyons. My name is jason cohen, i have been a tour guide in San Francisco for 8 years and i urge you to approve option 2. Option 2 is a reasonable compromise that should dramatically red...

And 280 and 101 which are extra busy, as well. So again this is worse than your normal getaway friday. Back to you guys. Brutal. All right, elizabeth, thank you. Take a look at this mess. Drivers are clogging up San Francisco city streets trying to get to southbound 101. Thats because a stretch of 280 is closed this weekend. The closure affects three on ramps, the southbound 280, the freeway itself closed all the way past mariposa street. Kpix 5s da lin is in San Francisco where he found plenty of frustrated drivers. Da. Reporter liz, this is one of the main sources to the problems the traffic...