is a great industry, do you want to lose that. is this just the idea or these companies will shut down and they are not sustainable. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> we have another card, ray sloan, please come forward, next speaker? >> jeffrey rosen, vice president of san francisco cab driver association 20 year cab driver, these companies, are guied in a deceitful manner and they are operating in the same manner, and our group is sphere headed the collection of data over 4,000 license plates and, that is just a sample, and we don't know how many are out there but there are thousands and thousands, approximately 1900 cabs only. and and we are talking about the liability insurance background checks and vehicle inspection and they are

operating without any proper commercial liability. if i work in a store and no one is in the store does that mean that i am not covered in the insurance? it is the same thing as being in the transportation service and the price, surging, i mean, pardon me, and they have neighborhoods that are changing from hour it hour as far as costs. and they are discriminating against the public, this is a public safety, issue, and >> it has. >> and let me just finish by saying. >> wrap up quickly. >> taxi cab transportation service it is your duty as regulators. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> high my name is bary corn gold and i have been driving a cab in the city for over 25 years and this is not a new industry, it is a new technology at one time taxi cabs used to line up at taxi

stands and there will be one stand and they will get up and do the call and this taxi industry has been around hundreds of years. california government code requires cities and counties to regulate this taxi service. and we all need to be regulated equally in this violation of the equal protection clauses in the u.s. and in the california cons constitutions to do otherwise and we were active participants in the proceeding and it was not done in the fair way, they opened the flood gates and allowed them to operate without inadequate insurance and they had an excess insurance policy that relies on the personal insurance coverage first and the personal insurance federation in california stated that the puc proceedings that personal insurance does not cover vehicles operating as gnc and yet they allowed them to operate.

please take the responsibility and regulate them as us and we are all taxi cabs. >> next speaker? >> peter whit, yellow cab, and 26 years, and native san franciscan and i would refer these lettered e-mails to the board of supervisors, and five, as far as taxi safety is concerned, and i would also, as far as hard data, and taxi service is concerned, would i also submit, this survey that i have done this year and i have also 15 years previously and one in each and every year, and consist of 1,000 customers. and with a 90 over 90 percent return rate and when it comes to taxi, excuse me, limousine enforcement, and i would like a show of hands of cpu c does not regulate... and that is obvious, and when you look at a hotel, and a door man and a limousine that stands out front and i would like to city a show of hands that

drivers regular that realize that they are not regulated in front of hotels so when it comes to the non-technology, and taxi, and excuse me, non-technology network companies. because they are not... >> thank you. >> they are not technical they are transportation. >> that is the name. >> thank you very much. >> ray sloan, i was one of the founders of the ride share association with the shuttle companies that shuttle people to and from td hotels and the neighborhoods. we have formed the ride share association in 1993 to protect the interests of the drivers, which are or were at the time were 300 and now are 400. and going to and from the airport and there is a highly

regulated industry. and the uber cabs have had affected it to the ex-at the present time of about 30 percent, fall off and some, some believe as high as 40 percent and they now hold control over the internet and if you google, ride share to the airport, they are the ones that show up the uber cabs show up and not the traditional ride share shuttle companies. and that founded this, and pushed this business, and it needs to be, it needs to be regulated and something needs to be done, thank you. >> thank you, mr. sloan, next speaker? >> hi, my name is avy langer and i have been a taxi cab driver off and on since 2006 here in san francisco. and the few issues that i kind of wanted to raise or bring up, starting salary for muni bus cleaners and parking

enforcement and muni pavement is close to $50,000 in benefit and that is starting salary, a full time taxi cab driver working 45 to 60 hours a week can make that much, does the driver want a raise in benefits? yes. how is it possible when anyone can drive and make dollars on the street? the city needs to protect the long term interests by keeping the limit on the amount of money making vehicles on its streets, in 1988 i got cited for selling carpets off i fence for conducting unlicensed business and today there is a parking lot there, if i showed shots of booze for a buck or two what would happen? would the city later issue license to under selling bars, at license to sell alcohol? someone should write a book about the evolution of transportation for higher business in northern california and the usa. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> if there is anyone else that would like to speak, we are going to close this hearing in a few minutes, next speaker?

>> good afternoon, sir, it is me again and i did not have enough time. >> we can't let you speak again. >> i am sorry. >> but, our office will be available if you want to give your testimony to our office. >> next speaker. >> my name is andrew mathia and i am a cab driver in san francisco and i would like to say that in my lifetime tabies have been regulated by the bodies, the regulations in place have been fought out over decades and the tncs come in and start to operate illegally, and are ordered to stop, and now they are just allowed to continue on with their business model which is basically dangerous to people. taxi cabs are limited in number in san francisco because they are a limited number of passengers we don't issue the permits based on how busy it is, we base it on how slow it is. if it is more often slow than it is busy. and when you allow these companies whose only interest

is making money because they make money off of the number of people so they put on the streets, their incentive and to put more and more vehicles on the streets so they can make more money and it is not safe because the drivers have to live and make a living and so they are encouraged to drive faster, uber and lift business model encourages them to drive unsafely. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hi. >> my name is katherine baker and i have been a cab driver since 1974 when i graduated from the university. and i make these days, less than i did when i started. and it is because of this unfair competition. so, i think that something should be done and i hope that you hear what people are saying to you and take you know get rid of these guys who are so illegal, and unsafe. and their pink mustaches tell me if i am wrong they were

created by the mayor to give us his daughter a job so she regulated that? is there any truth to that? >> i don't think that is true. >> the mayor does not have anything to do the pink mustaches or his daughter? >> no? >> i don't think that that is true, ma'am. >> okay. >> next speaker? >> thank you. >> i have been driving the taxi for the last six years and i would like to also cpu c what kind of this shedding is it, and the drivers that call, and they are down reaching it and (inaudible) from me and more over, (inaudible) if we taxi drivers go to (inaudible) pick up a customer, we have been... they can pick them from anywhere in the area and remote anywhere and so in that case,

also, (inaudible) customers too much and because of all of these things and illegal things. (inaudible). >> thank you, sir. >> is there anyone else that would like to speak that has not spoken yet? no, you already spoke. >> we are going to close the public comment and let me, or before i close the public comment, let me withdraw that without objection? is there anyone from uber lift, or their representatives from the so-called tncs that we invited several times to this hearing, i am going to give them an opportunity for them to speak is there anyone here that would like to speak? >> then i see none, so let me say that we are going to close public comment. >> thank you. >> colleagues, i know that there may be a couple of other closing comments, but let me be brief. it has been a great learning experience, thank you so much to the drivers and the

companies and the disabled advocates and the pedestrian safety and the other advocates that have come out today and this hearing has been focused on insurancing the public's safety and insurancing access, and looking at a new wild west of an industry that is sprouted up without adequate state regulation, and then definitely not enough attention from our local government. and i wanted to say that and i wanted to thank, sophie lou's family for being here mr. dolan and my intent following up with this hearing as a first step is to look at working with some of my colleagues, and stake holders that have been here to draft a board of supervisors resolution, coming up detailing the shortcomings of the policy and making strong suggestions that as we work with the state's puc to fix those gaps, and to address the unfair playing field that currently exists that many have brought

up, the issues of discrimination and especially for the disabled community and other issues, and i know that we have look at it with our attorneys and the disabled community as well and i also intend to work with our budget and legislative analyst office to look at the economic harm of a new industry, and look at how we as a city address the economics of this new industry, and i am not even going to call it tncs as many suggested, and start to look to a more appropriate term of a new private sector that is unregulated currently, and as others said really is a potential threat to the safety on the streets, and lastly, as i stated at the beginning of this hearing, we locally, in san francisco, we have a responsibility to avoid the preventable tragedies like the death of sophie lou and i look forward to working with all of you as we move forward not only with the vision zero but also the stated goals of protecting

our public and the safety of our residents. colleagues are there any other comments? >> supervisor yee? >> so, supervisor mar, thank you, for bringing this here and in front of this committee, and i am in not, new any more, but relatively new but the supervisors that this is the first time that i have been in the hearing to listen to the concerns and so forth, and so that was very educational process for myself. the presentation, it looks like there are suggestions in there that would i like to have the discussion with my colleagues to see what we can do to have the san francisco be a much more balanced approach to who is providing services. >> thank you. >> supervisor avalos? >> so i wanted to thank supervisor mar for holding this hearing. all too often the board of supervisors has not weighed in on issues related to taxis.

and because it is under the mta, we don't have direct jurisdiction but i think that we have gotten into a crisis mode where we actually do have to discuss how we can weigh in. i have actually was very happy to here that supervisor mar was working on these issues because it made me feel that i am not alone in looking at it and i want to work collaborativively with my colleagues to see if there are jurisdictional issues that we can apply and can we have it severed from the cpuc and we can actually make the streets safer and have the regulation here locally? and so i have been working with the people from the stake holders related to the taxi industry and to see, if we can do just that, and i have been working with supervisor mar to ask our city attorney if we could explore what jurisdiction we can have, and for the regulation and for bringing those forward, and so, i am, i think that it is time for that to happen. and the stories, from taxi drivers, about how you have

lost so much after your years of service, is just incredible to me and we cannot let this industry fail and we have to bring it up to to the same standard for anyone who is providing the service in san francisco and so i look forward to working with my colleagues on that. and working with the taxi industry, to help to make that happen as well. >> thank you, supervisor avalos. >> and so, we have finished our comments on this, could ask if we could continue this to the call of the chair and we will alert the stake holders, could we do that without objection? thank you. >> mr. evans could you call item 2? >> are we going to call two and three together? >> yes, please call two and three together. if i could ask the people to

leave the room as quietly as you can. >> item 2, is a resolution urging the mayor the chief of police, and director of municipal transportation agency to adopt the vision zero three point plan to expedite the goals of the san francisco pedestrian an and bicycle strategies. and item three is a resolution urging the transportation authority to convene and coordinate a pedestrian safety public awareness working group and to develop an action plan within 90 days of the first meeting. >> thank you and i would like to hand the meeting over to the sponsor, kim, avalos and yee. >> thank you. first of all i do want to thank all of the members of the public and our departments who waited very patiently, and so thank you for sticking around for this really important hearing. but, for many of you folks that could not stay, i should just emphasize, that this will not be the first hearing on this issue and this will not be the

last as many of you know that are here in the room today, we called for the city to make changes and that is zero traffic fatalities and more cyclist and drivers to share our existing infrastructure, we are interesting san francisco to create vision zero. engineering enforcement and education. we believe that a focus on these three areas will make it a safer place to walk and bike.

our district, of course is the 6th street, where we have put in a pilot curve out to make it safer on 6 and market and 6 and howard, number one and number three on the list of the most dangerous intersections to cross, and of course, late last year, when we were able to implement, the pilot bike lanes after the tragic death of

24-year-old, amalie maluac, these low costs, safety initiatives are what we are asking sfmta to commit to and we are asking them to commit to 24 over the next two years. and focusing on our high injury corridors. now when we talk about committing to zero fatality its seems like an ambitious goal until you understand that 60 percent of the death occur on only 6 percent of our streets and when you think about that way, the goal seems a lot more manageable if we are able to focus or engineering and redesign and our traffic enforcement to 6 percent of our roads, and we can cut our injuries and deaths by over half. and so we are really looking forward to this discussion today.

and also, to supervisor avalos who chairs our transportation authority and who has been very committed through the ta to find other funding, and but also to help coordinate our departments and so that we can more effectively get projects out, on a quicker time line. when funding is not the issue. >> thank you, i am glad that we are having the hearing on both resolutions together because they are so related and the piece that i would want to focus on, and it was, and

co-sponsored by myself and supervisor kim, and avalos, and so, we are actually approaching this as a team, but the education, piece, and i did not, we did not want to wait necessarily to pass a resolution and then to pass another >> the departments in the city are having their own education out reach, and that i would also realize that had not been coordinated throughout the city, and, whether we have a similar message from each department, and so, it was important for me, that as a

city, we approached this and we could leverage each other's resource and so we are not wasteful for that and thank you for allowing this to happen today. >> i want to thank you for their leadership on vision zero, and above all, i want to make sure that we are working together, to encourage the greatest level of collaboration that we can have as a that is n case, and but i think he that given what is at stake in terms of people's lives and our goals around reducing fatalities to zero, we really have pull up our sleeves and really make the collaboration happen and be effective and i would like to see though that we could be a model for the other cities around the country and i think that right now we are a model for the first things around the country of how not to do things and we have a ways to go and

but, given that the mayor today had a press conference that we all attended around supporting walk first and initiating the walk first to use data to look at how we can build our infrastructure to support the pedestrians and there is a great deal of focus in the city and we have to make sure that we share the same focus in moving forward and i am happy to be part of the hearing and i have an appointment at two and i will not be able to stay i will be watching and my staff will be involved and i want to say thank you for supervisors for bringing this hearing, and this work together and i want to thank the departments already for your work of collaboration and that has happened in the past few months. >> we will lose quorum at 2:00 and many of us were not anticipating that it would go as long. we had asked them to shorten it

to 15 minutes collectively and so, let's see what we can do. so, i know that we first have megan wier from san francisco department of public health and then we have timothy from sfmta who are co-chairing the task force to speak first and then we do have falita ren olds from sfmta, and commander alli and i see rebecca from the district attorney office and then john white to speak on the education piece. i asked to not have a closing, and so we will take that out and we will try to do that concisely and i know that many members of the public were not able to stay this among for the hearing so we might have a

shorter public comment section, but we will be bringing this item back. and after the resolution, because we plan to codify the aspects into the ordinance so there will be many more opportunities to have a robust and significant discussion on this item. but again, thank you for your patience, and i appreciate our department staff members understanding our time constraints today. i appreciate to to make it to the point. >> i am with the department of public hel and this co-chairing with the pedestrian an safety now, vision zero city wide task force.

>> it is about saving life as the highest priority and as we move forward, to address us as a city, we are also going to be addressing existing inequities in traffic deaths and injuries and that includes, the six percent of streets that account for 60 percent of the severe and fatal injuries and these streets are concentrated in communities where the people are reliant on walking on the public transit and i also more likely to be low income seniors and youth and people with disabilities and non-english speakers. transportation mode and i can see that while walking accounts for approximately 18 percent of trips, pedestrians are 60 percent of our fatalities, and simply, cyclists for 3.5 and 9 percent of fatalities and we are moving toward having the

vision zero task force which will include all transportation mode includes drivers and passengers. and our pedestrian safety initiatives have really been a strong foundation and dph and mta have been co-chairing and i just shared with you the progress report that we presented at the end of 2012, to the task force and we have made a lot of progress with increasing collaboration and having, evidence based data driven and initiatives that are really targeting our resources to reduce, the severe and fatal injuries, and we have subsequent city staff presenting more on those efforts and i would also like to stress that there are co-benefits for bicycling and driving and the strong foundation that we have for the pedestrian safety, and so speed is a high predicter of fatality for all of our modes and we are reducing the speeds through initiatives and including enforcement as well as engineering, and we also have coordinated education campaigns

that help to shape the larger cultural shift. and i want to end, briefly with the force e, on being from dph and doing a lot of work with respect to data and analysis, and e, evaluation and monitoring and i think that it is important that we analyze the distribution and the cause of death and injury and monitoring our progress and reporting, it to you and also, evaluating this. and it is a bottom of this slide and so in the interest of brevity, i can provide the follow up information that the department is spear heading. >> we are going to invite more

people to the task fores because there are other people who are involved with this and initially a pedestrian task force and it will encompass all of the modes so that there will be a larger set of stake holders to participate and attend and our goal is to initially meet bi monthly to this vision zero authority board with progress updates and the first, committee is going to be held later on this month without our city team and we have already been meeting

before this, on how to physically structure this and who should be involved. and so, we are asking all of our city team to fully engage, and to fully prioritize their time to get to the deliverables that we see are urgent. and then, we are also, starting the stake holder engagement to try to get the input on the task force itself and the key areas that we need to focus on. the first meeting is schedule for june 10th and the reason is that for dph and mta are putting together a lot of data analysis and we need to get that ready to prioritize the projects have them out of the gate. with that, now, within mta and the streets, we have started the process of identifying what those 24 projects could look like and we will talk about that in a moment. but, we are committed to design, deliver and fund, and implement these projects if not