volunteer positions. he does a lot of background grass-roots work that keeps all of our businesses running. finally, he is an expert in sales and marketing. in addition to publishing various visitor guides, they have an on-line tour booking engine as well as successful discounted activity passes. i know he will leverage all of that advertising proficiency and know how to increase the percentage of visitors in e go golden gate park. i m 100% confident that brian and his team, at the electric tour company, the work well with your staff, with your commission, with golden gate park users and create and operate a world class segue tour operation. thank you for your time. thank you. lori, lauren, and then ross, please. good afternoon, corey roebuck from cable car sights. we have the motorized cable cars that have been driving around here since 1959 here in support of this item. i ve actually had the opportunity to take a segway tour from fisherman s wharf. i can speak to the
that worked on the 2008 pilot program. they did the hard work on this and we re going to get some of the benefits of that. we operated the last five years, we are very safety-focused, and i d like to welcome anyone to come out on our tours. we started doing test tours in the park and we don t have our route down yet. we re still working on that. we re offering free tours, so come on down and we ll take you out for the part of the route that we know. our material is not quite up to snuff yet, but we re getting there. the big focus for this is we want to co-exist with everything that s already in the park, pedestrians, even down to the squirrels, everybody. so we have an etiquette policy that we ve sent to staff for review. it s humerus, just like our training, but humor is a good way to get everyone s attention. our mission for this project is basically to educate the visitors about not only the history of the park, but the current activities. and the other thing we want to do
we had such a great time on our tour. and my wife reminds me that i ve promised to take her out as well. our tours crossed paths on at least three different occasions, despite the fact that our dock captains make segues make speed bumps, we never had any safety concern or any hesitation about sharing the streets with them. i did want to speak as well about the professionism of brian and his staff. he s on a number of boards as great community leader and love the fact that this is an alternative mode of transportation and the fact that it s renewable, we pride ourselves that it s a green business. no hesitation whatsoever in recommending this company. president kim: thank you. lauren? good afternoon, i m the national sales manager. i ve had the pleasure of working with brian and his team for about a year and a half now. we are in favor of this program. not only do we feel that it s an economic cal and clean way of seeing san francisco, it s a safe and quiet way of seeing t