We have heard you cant experience the real character of San Francisco on those streets and i would counter you cant experience the real culture of San Francisco on those busses. They are using muni and walking and loving it. The logistickal restrictions of our neighborhood had been followed we wouldnt have reached the point of needing this meeting. I would suggest option 1 with the addition of restricting employee busses as well. Im wondering why google buses are a problem for cal hollow but alamo square should have both a large number of google busses and tour busses. If large numbers of busses idling is a problem they are also a problem for employer busses. Tour busses are not the only way to see the city. Thank you very much. Robert weiner followed by pete wilson and john billow. Herbert weiner, resident of richmond. I thought the viking invasion was bad. In sea crest theres a prohibition on busses that are too big. That prohibition is in effect already, why doesnt it apply to neigh
Size dont fit on our residential streets. Please stop it. The other thing is that if you put, i prefer option 1, but if you put the stop at pierce street and fell, with that number of busses its never going to work so just remove it and tell them they have to go someplace else and have the tourists walk to our community. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Hi, there, good afternoon, thank you commissioners and director riskin. I live on the third floor on a house on scout between fulton and mccallister who was not included on the map, thank you very much for the informative presentation with the kind of Entrance Ways to the park were not really featured. My block is one of those Entrance Ways. The folks on the bus are right below me from my window. As the presentation indicated there is the noise of the bus going uphill, the narrators, i have heard the same part of the same sentence hundreds of times, its terrifying to think of the same person saying the same sente
Narrow and a lot of the hop on hop off busses have been shifted over to mccallister street instead of being actually operating on the square. Another thing i wanted to mention was with regard to the travel association saying that obviously they are disappointed since they have alamo square on their brochures, they might have to change this, but i did have a question as to whether the neighborhood was ever consulted with in the first place when this was put on their brochures. To my knowledge i dont think we were. And i strongly support option 1 and i appreciate all the research and meetings and help that jerry robins has given us in the past few years. Next speaker, please. John morris, todd geist, todd olive. Switch over to the overhead. There you go. Good afternoon, mr. Morris. Theres the view thats become so popular. Its funny, that was the view on the opening of full house, the television show. Looks like we have a full house here today, a very important issue for us neighbors. Ive
John dallas, christine that odonnell good afternoon. Thank you for hearing us, im john dallas with the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association. A couple, 4 years ago i kind of started this ball rolling because i was trying to have a conversation on my sidewalk and i couldnt hear the person i was talking to, it was a saturday morning and the busses were so loud and so frequent i thought this was starting to be a problem. When we began, when alamo square originally contacted mta and asked about our options we asked for a ban. We didnt ask for option 1 and we didnt ask for option 2, we asked for a ban of the buses in our neighborhood just like the 52odd other areas. I dont think we need to accommodate them with a parking area, i dont think we need to lose neighborhood parking. These guys dont belong here, they are too big, they are dangerous. The reason they are being blocked in all parts of the city is because they dont block, they are too big. They are bad neighbors, they dont belong, we
Large number of google busses and tour busses. If large numbers of busses idling is a problem they are also a problem for employer busses. Tour busses are not the only way to see the city. Thank you very much. Robert weiner followed by pete wilson and john billow. Herbert weiner, resident of richmond. I thought the viking invasion was bad. In sea crest theres a prohibition on busses that are too big. That prohibition is in effect already, why doesnt it apply to neighborhoods throughout the city . This should be a protocol. The other thing is if busses want to tour the neighborhoods, why cant they have small scale busses doing this . I mean, whats wrong with the small bus . And i think that basically what the tour busses do, they are in there and they are out of there and they get a birds eye view and the neighborhood is virtually in a fish bowl and people are on display and what i really dont like is you buy a house in these residential areas and then you have a high noise level, you a