. >> my name is jason cohen, i have been a tour guide in san francisco for 8 years and i urge you to approve option 2. option 2 is a reasonable compromise that should dramatically reduce the impact of tour busses in the neighborhood while still allowing visitors some access to the famous view. as you know, the tour industry is very important in our city. in my own work, for example, the visitors i lead on tours every year represent literally thousands of nights of hotel rooms, thousands of restaurant meals. i work for a local company that takes people on half day tours, i work for a national tour operator where the groups are with me for 10 days doing an entire west coast tour. in both cases we use enclosed tour vehicles so there's no narration audible outside the vehicle. none of the vehicles are tall enough to see in second floor windows. tour busses are good for the environment and good for parking by removing literally hundreds of cars from the roads. other means of access such as muni are excellent but for many people that's not a way that will work for them, for example a busin

. >> john alex lowell, jason cohen. >> good afternoon, mr. lowell >> 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, fillmore-hayes, 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 intersec f

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