next speaker, please. >> peggy deets. lynn miller, jimmie lu. >> okay, following on, it's clear that the staff wants to remove the stops to restore 12 parking spaces because of the complaints from three merchants and some residents. many l. riders are concerned about the difficulties the merchants and residents face but balance the hardships on both sides and overwhelmingly concluded they want to keep the stops to avoid hurting hundreds of l riders who use them. this is consistent with transit first policy number 7 to encourage travel by public transit. removing stops doesn't encourage the use of public transit. sfmta should stop piting riders against merchants and residents and find other ways to restore parking. we urge you to reject the staff's reliance on the stop spacing guidelines. ridership levels and claims removing the stops would improve reliability and transit times. the staff considered all of these factors in 2016 and still recommended that these stops be kept because the removal of other stops achieved the a

. >> lance harriman, paula katz, followed by peggy deets. >> hi, i'm lance harriman, i will just continue with what mary was saying. where were we? so if muni stands by its statement that all the options have been looked at and islands are not negotiable, seems a compromise would be to remove the stops to restore some of the parking. my question, is it possible to continue with the research for other options. think about maybe a block sign that comes down off the back of a muni or something like that. if that's not the case, the most logical option would be, if you remove a stop would be to remove the one in the middle. the limited parking that will be left, that is left at this point and will be left after the changes need to be protected in some way from the commuters that drive from