my name is glen mccoy a mccoy a 28-year resident of san francisco and for all of that time i've worked in the civic center neighborhood having never owned a car in san francisco i'm also a long time and regular user of public transit folks thank you for the opportunity to offer comment on the proposed van ness bus rapid transit plan over all we think the plan is a great improvement for our neighborhood we applaud the foresight and care you are putting into it but on behalf of the ballet and i believe other art associations in the center we'd like to call attention to one serious concern about the stop at grove street given city hall the access to bill graham auditorium and of course the opera house and davis city hall i think it would be hard to find an scene of an intersection on van ness with more pedestrian traffic so we'd ask that you take a closer look at that for all of our organizations a significant portion of our audience is senior citizens. we're very concerned about making access less convenient for them and a growing number are disabled citizens so we would ask that while w