School, facilities, and sensitive populations of people where safety might be even more important on some streets . All of those sensitive land uses we take into consideration. Because i worry, if policies are driven by just by the number of people that complain, i guess that one worry is equity for equity purposes, the most affluent neighborhoods get the most and the low income might not raise as much of a stink of the tour buses coming down the streets and so i am wondering how you factor in the equity about the vulnerable populations. Sure we are sensitive to that certain and we try to take the needs of all of the residents into consideration. How do you do that by the way . We travel to the site, and we make observations, and we talk to the people who have made the complaints. And we talk to the tour Bus Operators. And in many cases we are able to persuade the daour Bus Operators to take another round around the sensitive areas if possible without evoking any instruct regulations,
Feel that there is not enough enforcement that we need to see more safety, especially where a big tour bus went down in a residential street on 12th avenue and five people were injured and one person, very, very severely. My office started talking where casino buses and other types of private buses traveled frequently, right near child care and library and they line up and layover where they load the passengers similar to the tech buses that are now all over parts of the mission but also but definitely more fitting for a commercial corridor and this is an ongoing issue for my office and there is a number of frustrated rents that have met with the mta. And the concerns rose last year, after the incident on 12th avenue. The sierra club has weighed in and i know that there are changes from the end of last year as well, but the residents on mccalister and other streets have raised the concerns with my office as well. And i think that the goals for this hearing for me are to hear from mr. R
And we talk to the tour Bus Operators. And in many cases we are able to persuade the daour Bus Operators to take another round around the sensitive areas if possible without evoking any instruct regulations, if that does not work, then we will move forward with the restrictions. Okay. Can i just say that around the twin peaks area, and then you have in the marina around fort mason here, we had some north beach Telegraph Hill as you mentioned in alamo square and i am going to guess that those are more of the afluent areas of the city and are there examples that you have in lower income neighborhoods where you are also sensitive to residents around for senior sen ters or schools mr. Robins . Well, on the map here, i am sorry, it is a small scale, but, there are a lot of restrictions on the northern end of the city and there are also, some restrictions in the bay view Hunters Point area on the vehicles over three tons which would also apply to tour buses and other parts of the city where
Our issue is twofold with the tour bus and number one, they circle a block continually, through the day and i want to emphasize that it has been very difficult and taken me a bit of tracking and it happens around meal times there are two restaurant on clementstreet that do have a bus loading zone in front. But, there are often 6 to 7 tour buses at a time. And i think that for years, we did not notice quite the increase, but since house of banquet moved into a russian there it is now doubled. What happens is that they circle and circle and circle. And it is increased on the weekends and it happens during the meal times and they dont have enough parking for their buses so they will park on our street and they will double park and i think that they know not to from jerry robins who i had contacted and will call the individual Bus Companies for us when we do make a complaint, however they see us and start up and leave. I cant as emphasize enough what a hazard this it and how many times the
Senate bill 2 19 sponsored by leland yee extends the double fine zones that were established in 2008 to make them permanent. And since the establishment of the double fine zone, deadly accidents have dropped by about 75 along these busy routes. This bill is also supported by the California Alliance of retired americans because they, seniors and people with disabilities know that this will help protect seniors and their families. There is so much more work we can do in San Francisco, but the board of supervisors i believe should voice its strong support for important legislation like this to support pedestrian safety. Also, especially given supervisor kims comments about the tragic death of a child and the families in treasure island, im working also on a number of Richmond District fires and i know that others from other supervisors have fires in their district. But im calling for a hearing on our citys responsiveness to the needs of fire victims after displacing residential fires. Eve