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 the 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
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 seniors and people with disabilities who are traveling on hayes street. There is a hospital on hayes street and there is mercy terrace Senior Housing which used to be the Southern Pacific Railway hospital at the intersection of hayes and baker. They are traveling down hayes street to go to the intersection of 7th and market, which is the closest major bus lane intersection for access to the Social
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 Collection in june so some of those double decker busses are back. So we have two proposals for your consideration today. Option 1 is the request from the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association that all streets within that shaded area be restricted to commercial vehicles with 9 or more seats with the exception of employer busses, the Neighborhood Association does not want to prohibit the google typ
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 september of 2011 the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association requested a prohibition of all commercial vehicles with 9 or more seats in the alamo square area similar to restrictions in other parts of San Francisco. Some of the issues raised is the busses often stop at the viewpoint at hayes street just east of pierce street so people can see the view and take pictures of the painted ladies victorian ho
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 modifications east of pierce and repeal an expired exception to the street restrictions for people activity busses operating on segments of lyon and chestnut streets. This is option 1. Commercial 2 is excepting certain activities but permitting enclosed Passenger Vehicles to operate on hayes street and then making the required, the necessary traffic, parking and traffic modifications including establishing a