i'm the exclusive i'm kevin with the director hotel a san francisco resident and almost a daily yourself of taxi cabs. i want to thank the staff for issuing this report and some of the issues that the hotel has. we appreciate the partnership that you've shown specifically for working with our group. taxis are critical to the hotel industry and they're absolutely necessary for our guests so it's important to the hotel group. we do support the recommendation of adding additional taxis. we especially during peak times our folks are giving up on getting a taxi and it's not uncommon to have that happen. our guests is waiting to leave

the hotels purely because they spend such time inside and outside the hotel. and something that will allow more taxis to allow people to get out and spend and to see the city is important as well. the doctor has helped me to understand and i see what happens and it's something very important. the reports detail more than just educating me and others. again, we fully support the addition of more taxis it will benefit our employees and the residents of san francisco. thank you for your times. >> (calling names) and a good

afternoon mr. smooird. >> i want to echo the remarks that to add taxis at this time at the issue of the transportation apps has not been decided could add more cabs to the street and minimize drivers chances of making even minute wages in violation of the spirit of san francisco's minimum wage ordinance. i wanted to just - i hope we can have someone the wisdom of a

nancy reagan. a nancy reagan who learned from common sense when she said there are just sometimes when you just is no. additionally, i want to commencement the late lady in saying the reporting record in this city with two former mayors and the f fta is that you have had centralized gps brought to you a number of times that could

improve the transportation and neither those two mayors nor you have done a god damn thing. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. okay first of all, i'd like to thank the doctor about his report and he touched a lot of things in his report but i totally agree with him on one thing. you goose don't know what's going on. and i thank the person from the hotel but he didn't know what kind of corruption in his car. sometimes, we sit a half an hour in front of the hotel and the town caribbean puck up and up

people in his hotel. and none of you guys mentioned the corruption at the city dispatch. if you go and call a cab company and i go to the airport they will leave the order for 5 minutes. so central dispatch is very, very important. i spoke with town hall and once we dispatch we accepted one car we don't need a lot of companies and one dispatch and one car and this was all the consumer. but if you add 5 thousand cabs and the incrimination is still there it's not going to help. okay. and the reason i say that the click on the phone and at the smart phone and the car is

there judge? because two corners there's a town car waiting there. so that's why what we need we need a central dispatch and one car. and i have the jurisdiction to enforce that >> next speaker please and (calling names). >> good afternoon. in a few minutes we should have 3. commissioners and ladies and gentlemen of the audience for those who don't know i'm mr. lawrence. i've been a resident in this city for foy years. we'll have a bunch of people saying service service by not one mention about income this is a income and fee driven

industry. the hotel wants more cabs but they don't want to pay for them. i have a ramp taxiing madalinas and you sucked four and a half thousand dollars from me on fees. that's what this industry is all about it freeze. and i want to find out you have a bunch of apps out there and nothing in your report thrills how many there are by you have 2 thousand extra cabs not in your report. and i see limousines and cab cars picking up people and it's not in your report. your whole management is

dysfunctional. who's making the money in this business? it's not the cab driver. we don't have medical, dental pensions or employment. at the same time i have an out of control app base that's only going to greer grow it's not going to dissipate. i thank you for your time >> here's 7 companies of the sf weekly. >> good afternoon fellow directors. i went to the town hall meeting last week and i was dishastened

we didn't actually get any summarize of the copies to look at. i was a disappointed on some of the answers to his questions. i'll tell you the taxi business was better off because we got - or departments under your organizations it was better when it wasn't under your organization. we got - so the cooperation of your other departments have taxi services has been virtually null. we've already put out a lot of

taxis and it didn't improve services much. we don't have any measurement to deal with it. when the police did their studies they were better tests. doctor used the w hotel as an example is really not - i think that he also does not use the airport studies to determine about the level of need for taxis. until you put some safeguards in you've going to be poorer. because you regulate the industry there's huge conflict

>> (calling names). >> good afternoon. i'm a taxi driver. first of all, the whole council you are the biggest corrupt institution this this country your your each and every hotel causes so much destruction to the industry and every $10 are given to the limousines piano but not the cabs. you're asking for $6, $7 rides shame. we won't see this in our country you destroy the taxi industry. we should call this will report

something else. we want to put forth a madalinas because it was asked for 4 madalinas. secondarily he said 1 hundred and 20 madalinas and we never saw your report he said well, we were talking about back and forth. so just kept the money a client comes to us and we do what we say. so this report is baseless. another thing in this report is madalinas going for $6,000 there is zero madalinas for $6,000 in san francisco. now this cabs i'll give you

another paper and it shows how much times they've been running empty they're running 45 percent empty afterward. this paper will tell you there is no need for any more taxis right now. thank you and a (calling names) >> good afternoon charles on behalf of luxury cab and we you're going to to support all the proposals that are before you today. we agree that there are a lot of taxi cabs on the streets today. more cabs are a prerequisite too important service. more cabs is also crucial to restoring some semblance of the

law and order to the transportation services on the streets in san francisco. and i don't believe that you're being asked yet to decide exactly how their to go distributed but i want to commits on the s program it's a success program. i do note there's a suggestion to reduce the hours but i hope i won't break this successful program. and a (calling names) >> hi i guess i'm stuck in a time warp. some people missed the fact i

said a lot of critical things about your people and i'd like to thank attorney morley and others for the battle against the illegal ride sharing services that they took to the c puc. i think the doctor did an excellent study, however, the part about the ride sharing services is very much lacking. someone said there's about 2 thousand of them on the street that's correct. if the cpr allows them to become legal the market for the taxis may totally tank. if you're going to put out 1 hundred and 20 cabs you'll cover it if the thing does tank.

thank you very much >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. i'm from desoto cab. we absolutely believe that san francisco needs more taxis. we're glad to see this report. one thing i'm cautious of its a report it's not the entire story. i also want to point out that there are at least two apps in this city that are available to pretty much every cab company and the 3 major cab companies have successful apps so one

thing to think about is the cab supply has an an issue but think about the cab prarpgsz because there's apps out and if you look at the data you'll be surprised. enforcement is important it's very port it's been neglected it's to be continued to be important. the operating a full serve of the cab company they need financial certain and some of that involves enforcement. the report suggests that the city needs on easy to manage and efficient industry and to empower i need to make sure the

madalinas are distributed according. and we need the city to innovate and they want good taxi service and innovation. >> (calling names). >> hey good afternoon. driving of veterans cab. i'd like to thank doctor for the report it's a great report. very comprehensive. but as mark said i don't know if obsolete is the word yeah. we've got this rule undertaking the c puc and it's going to be a big one. quite the social scientists he

covered a lot. it's obsolete because we have a number of cabs and that's going to give you our hard numbers. you're going to have a universal app in all the cabs and it's all the information is going to be there. there's going to be hard numbers to go by. i've been driving for 10 years and the numbers are saying we need more cabs. so that's one thing and lastly, i want to throw a scenario out there i'm on the madalinas waiting list i've got a $250,000 house in west oakland. so go do what you want me on the

dying list for a $50,000 down payment do you think i'm going to buy a madalinas or a luxury item for myself >> yeah. i feel for him arrest i have cold feet about buying a house because i don't know what's going to happen. somebody brought you up that the ride shares are elitists and don't serve the community. when i create our apps i hope you'll allow people to pay cash not just credit cards.

if the a l j rules in favor of the ride share i hope you're ready to step in and make your own regulars. the people of the city wants taxis. the tourists take taxis. so if i don't get rid of those no apps or legally ride shires there's not going to be any more taxis in this city. we're not going to make it. they say 15 hundred ride shares now. i hope you're prepared to step in. after watching all the great presentations from our side i can't imagine that the a l j would come back with the decision to support the ride

shares i hope you guys are ready >> (calling names). >> thank you. carl speaking for myself i'm not an orientation. i want to thank the doctor the city does need more cabs we're seeing 15 hundred illegal operators and the drivers are not making intuitive money. i want to thank two others for their support. a lot of us are surprised we're looking at illegal cars that are operating as taxi.

and if 2 hundred thousand madalinas can be issued in the next two years i hope this group is ready to do battle with the law judge and the vehicles are going to be legal listed i want to say we disagree with the issues. there are 3 hundred and 70 madalinas coming out. i would promote 50 more single operators to be given permits some of the older drivers some of them should have gotten the mcintelligence. of the remaining madalinas i hope many of the half priced one

will go out with a priority. you're going to have a color scheme and out of control situation >> (calling names). >> afternoon. i represent a cab company. in regards to the solution of the ma intelligence by the affiliate cabs is outlined in the proposal. those voldz lae - they can't hae driving their own car and to make sure the car is safe including parking, accident etc.

they can't do the job for the whole color scheme. right now, i'm aware of a single operator permit that has numerous problems. they have non-standard equipment in the cars and this permit is currently under investigation with the mta. in short members of the board they have little experience in running cabs and let us do our jobs. if the lease companies should make sure all the drivers are provided with health care just like the muni companies are. we have formatted a proposal and if your willing to reduce the

fees wire willing to make up the rest. our legal counselor is going to try to schedule an appointment with you to go over the details >> (calling names). >> coming here i was crossing the walkway to come up and a young kids were holding up the walls and this car with a mustache was waving at them he came close to hitting me i think this is an important subject. this leads me to the subject that i write an article from time to time in a small newspapers and i wrote about regulatory failure this year,

the transportation industry is failing to regulate the taxi industry otherwise for san francisco the cabs will disappear. no, in this context mainly yellow i prepared this document i had a lot of help. we used a lot of data driven information we tested the statistical information. but we came to a different type of report. i think you should allow someone from the cab companies to present this report. you'll have a report be it the cabs the colors or the drivers to do this.

i think this is a lot of good information and the public should hear it and you should too. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon >> i'll be brief. i would like you to know that my book is to be printed. you might see new year's that book. i came in late i don't know the doctor they call him, dr. read a report now i'd like to if they had if the doctor has the information about the nature of this industry. the first inclination of the driver in the cab is to have a job start to have a jump start

they have to go to the airport. now if you increase the number of cabs by 1 hundred to two hundred you have to expand parking space of the cab. that will go there. otherwise they come back back and forth to the city and the driver will get mad at you are think about this and one thing more to the night time between the hours of 10 o'clock at night to 12 o'clock there is hardly a cab that goes home with a load i myself have been driven out and gone home incompetent and we're not given reimbursement for the

$4 we pay for parking. this is not good. and one thing more i think that this parking lot tenant should not be given authority to run us out. my son was driven out of the airport because one one of his bolts was missing. >> (calling names). and those are the last two who have turned in a speaker card >> thank you for the opportunity to speak. obviously it would be as expected i support more cabs but it isn't all directed at tis