carry valuable instruments to and from work maybe more designated parking on the street for van pools we have a lot of employees that carpool and if they have a place to park that would be open to anybody involved in carpool. so i'm here to express any views as an employee and i've seen stress happen thank you very much >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi i'm treber i'm with the cab association at the technical director. i've been a proponent for late night activities in the city both in the night life industry

and taxi industry if bart had a twenty-four hours service and the railway service was expanded we'll have wonderful things happening we're seeing thousands and thousands of vehicles on the streets that are not licensed to be there that are making it dangerous for pedestrians especially. it's - they are closing the congested areas to taxis 4 to 1 if you need a taxi you're looking at down the street at the 50 cars and only a future of them are taxis. drink folks what weight another 15 minutes to get to their

bootie call a 6 years old isn't going to lose her life by watching something >> thank you, supervisors. i am here to speak as a business owner and the expansion for bart and muni across the city would be extremely important as you know parking is hard to come by and the cost of living in the city has gotten up and for a city that don't a great job of flat the playing field it as the people that are leaving our businesses late at night they have to take a cab or drive and those who are coming early in

the more than for clean up they're forced to drive. the police department being understaffed but we're not talking about late night transit being turned off overnight bs but as the police department grows thank you for supporting that legislation we want to see the options increased as the police department grows. one others thing i want to say is the cable car runs twenty-four hours it starts up at the 5:00 a.m. actually 2:00 p.m. if you want to talk about a waste of city resources because nobody t is on that thing from maintained to 2:00 a.m.

>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm a taxi driver 90 in san francisco. taxis are violate to the first and late mile of any transportation mix. as far as the cable cars going go if the cable cars can run that late and they have more maintenance issues than bay area rapid transit can find a way it didn't have to be by 0 train bart is saying they're in the train business and not cars they should get some for friday and saturday night. they and ac transit they should have a bart system they need to have outreach they need to have more mrublt and help people to

use their service and see how their service fits into their lives and pamphlets at bars and twenty-four hours restaurants and an easy we are talking about simple enough for a drunk to figure out. that's not sensitive if they have a reliable service many people defenders their trips while the bay bridge was closed. the f line it would be wonderful to do late night in modern buses not on the village cars and may i suggest that muni right now provides for gay pride week and has the metro going at the church street station and

service station don't cut it off you leave people straighten and they get weary and hostile >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> i'm colby michael's i live in district 6 near the entertainment district. a couple of notes the speaker before me stole my thundered. i want to mention ac transit our south bay people are not neither since i live near van ness and market when i tend to come home i see the connection and i know from the budget point of view you have 0 analysis per cost how many people use it. i think it's a good service identify only seen two people

get on it on fridays and saturday nights. that needs to be looked at. with bart i also proposes keeping them open during pride weekend and chinese new years eve which we could have used this year. as the last speaker said we need a promotional tag no counterpart left behind. i was glad to see that ac is big on that and my last thing is people need to even the employees like dog patch and south of market and castro so you do have a better monitoring exactly who is using this and in addition to the late night

schedule i've had to endure at the castro and market at the 3:00 a.m. to add express shuttles to run in addition to the current service that will alleviate a lot of the problems we have >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> first of all, i want to thank ac transit for not going on attack the city would have shut down. i lived in the east bay i take bart and ac transit and muni four days a week. i think if there were better condominium conversion between the systems we could make-do with what we have the perfect world is dowel immaterial and drop another tube in the bay so with, have duplication of

services. i would love 24 system. during the city when you have our last bart train is at 12:20 a.m. we need to do limited l these on the 90 and up mission to feeding all the muni's to the last bart train which we have now in the system we have regular muni buses taking their regular routes and a person can't come out of the their job and make it to the last bart on time. if you ran ls throughout the city they can get to the last bart >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi i'm barry i'm president of

the san francisco can be drivers association and i've been driving a cab in san francisco over 25 years i take great office of those companies calling themselves peer to peer they're full of deception and they're really taxis state and federal codes described them that charges by distance. you have a regulated cab story your charring thousands of discolors for medallion and nobody is enforcing any rules. who do they have enforcing that this is san francisco sfmta investigators. we don't mind competition but fair competition that's it let's have everybody play by the same

rules they're all community investment & infrastructure commission insurance fraud by relying on their own personal insurance when they're they don't have a customer. if taxis were allowed to do that only being insured when on calls we do have big problems. we need to all play by the same rules. there's a big problems are taxi dispatch we have had those and you c you can bypass the so-called t nc they call themselves anything but taxis to avoid regulations >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm the president of the pride parade and celebration

i've helped a lot of my firstborns with marketing and fund rising. i have two points but i will audio that the experience and decisions to come to san francisco is effected by how much it costs when you look at the cost of hotels and food and transportation a lot of those people on vacation want to come and be out after midnight they're forced to take private cab service but no public option after midnight and pride parade had a lot of clfls in traffics so the second point i'm lucky enough to have a car but since 87 a lot of any friends working in the castro industry i notice

a decline in business at bars and restaurants some have closed early in the castro and admiring the midnight hours a lot of you restaurants are closed people having to leave to catch a bus. you can either forward a car the high cost and the congestion or the high parking and if you walk it's dangerous if you take your car it's not safe and not good for the rest of the community. this is a huge step in the right direction it will help everyone in san francisco. thank you >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> mary maguire taxi industry

who is going to pay for the increased late invite service. over the last 4 years the taxi rates $40 million just in the medallions and 15 millions in fees yet nothing is being done to protect us from the unregulated taxis. how much did they give the city from using our roads and parks and it's documents over 4 thousand. when the taxis can't operate anymore who is going to take folks to the hospital. and i'd also like to bring up the issue of public safety.

the t nc have been required to purchase insurance they've taken their license plates off you'll see that so how can traffic laws or bridge tolls or parking violations they're a big question of who's driving the vehicles as hoover and lift sidecars are being rented out. so i see young woman hoping in the cars they don't even look to see who the derivative is and how are the taxis supposed to service the ball park when black cars and limos are blocking and we pay for the after hours club

90 the fifth block is blocked so we can't get there to serve the patrons >> before i call the next speakers i have two cards. yeah. go ahead. >> good afternoon supervisors taxi driver. i'm not going to say that is a cab driver association because cab driver are only cab driver but some people that are medallion pretend to the cab drivers. cab companies are suffering from hoover and medallion are suffering the ones that have go into hoover and the ones that have gone tape recorders hover

they're happy. when i started to drive 12 years ago i would pick somebody from the hunters point and bring them to the town and go back empty looking for my next customer people are - i've been waiting cab 45 minutes or two hours i missed my doctors appointment i did my best i could do and i 90 percent drove into the neighborhood. but it was my dream that a new system should come. i bet the cab companies to do it i wrote e-mail after e-mail after e-mail to do it they never did it hoover came and the game plan changed. completely changed the plan.

now people are talking about they have the best service in the zone. cab companies be ready to close their doors and medallion holders be rode to scrap their metal pieces no one is going to pay only $20 to drive and make $300 with cabs you pay $300 >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm elizabeth simon i'm a local promoter and computer for any day job which is what i do to afford in live in san francisco. i took two buses to get to caltrain it takes an hour to get to castro and mcallister i took another train and i take

caltrain and barton and muni to get home and i work in oakland at the oakland opera house and work in the late night industry so i'm taking another 5 to bart and there are no taxis in the taxi line because the taxis refuse to pick people up on western and bart so i wait for a 5 minute late. i work and leave any job with cash and take off any staff to leave to get to catch the last bart train if you miss it you have no options and as a solo female with cash i'm looking like i do at the end of the night it's not a safe situation.

the only option is to take a taxi over the bring back to my house which wipes out what i earner to hustle to make my situation in san francisco work for me. that's unacceptable when i'm utilizing he ever form of public transportation and still not able to make this work i can't book oakland fans because they're not going to come out because they can't get back home on bart. thank you. i'm at our disposal on a promotional level i'm willing to spread the news thank you very much mr. grover and.

>> i'm with the taxiing drivers but the remarks are my own. i'm talking to the widen like a lot of other people but all night bart service would be a world-class - this needs world-class regional transportation swirl local transportation. somehow bart has to step up. this is really in a sense the reserve side of the coin of the affordability problem in san francisco in terms of housing. there are people who would probably prefer to live in the east bay because it's cheaper but they can't get back there so they work in san francisco in the bars and you free up housing to allow people to live where

they want to live. as far as bart goes but as far as the taxis i invite you to go out to polk street on friday night i drive frintsz i try to avoid that the traffic is end to end and going from block to block is a matter of light after light after light. 90 percent of them are transportation either taxis or t nc and 90 percent are empty. there's one riders in one vehicle for every 10 of those vehicles on that street. and this is an incredible irony we have this transportation blockage and there so much more to say but my time is up thank

you very much >> thank you very much, sir. >> hi i'm jerry i've been driving in san francisco for 5 years and i'm talking about the people i work with my employees when we're done at the end of the night they have cash i load up my car and drive them home and one of my employees got robbed and gunshot. i think the late night transportation is a safety issue all the bars get out at the 2 clock in the morning and their liquid up and your stlechl to come down from a rage and they've been partying.

they're waiting and they have no place to go they're waiting on a cab. we're unsafe after the bars closed people waiting for the rides. i'll end on that and say the t ncs there's 0 thousands of them out there there's obviously a market for that i think there's 14 medallions in the city anti night the cabs would put hoover out of service. there's a support for the market and the t ncs. i've had equally scary rides they can talk about unsafe

chiropractors but i've put people in cabs the cabs could put hoover and lift out of business >> thank you very much. any additional - yeah. those are more pins than normal i like it >> i'm laurie live in district of castro district and i go to church in your district supervisor cowen. i'm here everyone is talking about safety if you look at this article how lgbt struggle that the bias and that's in the bar paper this is how we see love of those parties vans we can't go to sleep we also of the those people should pay their fair share and stress we are on

safety. look at me right here on february 22nd i was at jashgsz at the complex i get home and look someone's in my room and tied a noose you talk about public safety. i don't get it when you talk about safety on people coming into getting drunk and leave out the city we know that it should be 24 hours transportation. think of frankie conjectures we don't get to loan to his microscopic we hear people coming her i go out to el revises and the mission and castro and lubricate and dave in the mission i know what it's

like to catch the busy do karaoke you'll see i get to perform from 12 to two because people leave because they won't be out there without a bus >> is there any public comment item 3. seeing none, public comment is closed. so i would like to thank both the presenters and the members of the public for coming out here i thought that was really an informative hearing in terms of hearing a lot of different angles and the last speakers we've heard in terms of the struggles of workers to be actively able to get home it's

not only workers but patrons it's a significant challenge that we have not only as a city and region i we need more and better and more reliable late night transportation service. you know, ultimately in terms of affordability that is where we need to go. and i was heart end e he lived by muni they're working on frequency and it will continue the eternal dialog with bart about expanding the services there. i think it's unfortunate that new york apparently knew something a hundred years ago when it built their system that muni and bart seem to forget

when they built our systems you can't even do 24 service because it's outrage but i'm hoping we'll move in a positive direction. i would like for us to work toward comprehensive late night processes like the transit operations and the transit and various business and worker labor union groups and so forth to try to come up with some ideas. that some which might be challenging to implement in the

short-term but more straightforward solutions to you looked forward to doing the work. i also want to say it's unfortunate but leave public focused on the cab industry. i've been a cab driver and have a lot of respect for the companies and drivers for the providing of services. i also know as something i'm focusing on late night i can't count the number of times going back to 1997 when i moved here long, long before or lift exist i can't count the number ever timeha