moving forward, item 8, this is citizens advisory council pretender, mr. weaver is not here today moving on to general public comment, these are items to be presented are not on today s agenda but are within the jurisdiction of the sfmta members of the public are provided two minutes a piece we do have several speakers who wish to address you, starting with corey lamb followed by tony lee and mike ritter. thank you, mr. lamb? good evening, or good afternoon, my name is corey lamb, i m a cab driver here in san francisco and i sent an e-mail yesterday hopefully in the spirit of cooperation and not wagging my impinging e there was a significant change that was made at the caltrans system at 4th and townsend where a bicycle share machine was put in our taxi stand and we removed further down townsend toward 5th, i was upset because it was a couple of hundred feet, it was 20 feet, we should be inside the station, not away from the station for disability access, for just genera
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 i m 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. it s 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 ind
street as well. and on hayes street as well so i don t see any advantage in restricting them only to that particular avenue. the problem of course with option 2 is that hayes street will simply become a kind of a boulevard for tour busses and there will be a lot of them. and i certainly wouldn t want to be a resident on that street under those conditions. i urge you to support option no. 1 because i believe that those tour busses are completely out of scale to the neighborhoods in which they navigate the streets and they are a hazard to all vehicular traffic as well as pedestrian and bicycle traffic. there is no way that you can logically expect a bus that 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
we have heard you can t experience the real character of san francisco on those streets and i would counter you can t 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 wouldn t have reached the point of needing this meeting. i would suggest option 1 with the addition of restricting employee busses as well. i m 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 there s a prohibition on busses that are too big. that prohibition is in effect already, why doesn
mr. mitchell here? are you mr. mitchell? mr. mitchell? please come forward. good afternoon, mr. mitchell. good afternoon, my name is jim mitchell, my company is j mitchell group in san francisco. i ve been an lbe for 21 years in this city and i came today to get paid. i was a subcontractor for 13 years on your worker s compensation program. i have an outstanding invoice of $66,000 that you guys have done an investigation on and found out that the crime was in noncompliance of 14b. that amount totals $18 million in contracts over 13 years, of which i was the subcontractor. the 5 percent goal was not met. yet and still in your investigation you saw fit to find out that the $800 million a year contractor who had the contract was in fact in compliance and didn t have to pay. right now i have a $66,00 invoice that s been outstanding with mta for the last 7 months and there have been several, there s been an investigation and on behalf of your compliance officer that found