ll be -- there's a lots of information, i don't think i need to go through all of it. the access will remain open for emergency vehicles and transit vehicles, but it's still closing off van ness to general traffic is a pretty significant undercharging so we've been working with them to make sure that the streets where the traffic is going to be diverted to are ready to a company that spent a significant amount of outreach, they've been doing the cpmc contractor is hired an outreach firm to help them with this, so we'll help them in the lead-up to that first weekend where this will be happening, april 10th through 12th, there will be a lot of public information going out to ensure that people can adequately plan, so our folks have reviewed and are providing guidance on the traffic management plan, we'll be deploying extra parking control officers and facilitating the communications.

it is a cpmc private developer project but we are doing what we can to assist and making sure that the impacts to the transportation system will be minimized so you'll see -- you'll start to see that more publicly in the next few weeks but i just wanted to give you a heads-up that that's coming. >> do we have any public comment on the director's report. seeing no one, madam chair moving forward, item 8, this is citizens' advisory council pretender, mr. weaver is not here today moving on to general public comment, these are items to be presented are not on today's agenda but are within the jurisdiction of the sfmta members of the public are provided two minutes a piece we do have several speakers who wish to address you, starting with corey lamb followed by

tony lee and mike ritter. >> thank you, mr. lamb? >> good evening, or good afternoon, my name is corey lamb, i'm a cab driver here in san francisco and i sent an e-mail yesterday hopefully in the spirit of cooperation and not wagging my impinging e there was a significant change that was made at the caltrans system at 4th and townsend where a bicycle share machine was put in our taxi stand and we removed further down townsend toward 5th, i was upset because it was a couple of hundred feet, it was 20 feet, we should be inside the station, not away from the station for disability access, for just general purposes of the fight that we ao*f been fighting for the last couple of

years. since then, i've discovered that lift has decided that the corner of 4th and townsend is where they're going to do their lift line for $3 anywhere inside that area, where they can do stops of $3 or more per ride, there's definitely some impact that hasn't been considered, you're putting a bicycle machine where taxis normally pull in and out, they're standing in traffic swiping their card and getting bicycles out, it's a free flowing traffic, bicycles pedestrians, other things pulling out of that particular spot and to capsulate it all, you have proposals to item 10 to rescind or extend or implement a traffic and parking, and i would have you to reconsider the idea of putting a machine where the taxi stand is or at least investigate why that didn't get vetted before that change was implemented. thank you so much.

>> thank you, mr. lamb. >> tone lee followed by mike ritter and then mark gruberg. >> good afternoon, the board of the member, i didn't see the chairman today, it's bicycle chairman here, so the city is not only about the economy, it's about the liberalism is not good, next run is republican we're going to win, i don't talk to politics but as you know the cab drivers are very struggling, but don'tbacker don't forget, our interest and your interest isty tied today you are wholesale, we are retail, where we can make the money you are wholesale, you are going to get bundled also, we are going the

bundle very soon after the summer, you have a lot of [inaudible] to reset your policy to make a significant change for our business. you can do that, just what you had this kind of [inaudible] or not, men need courage, it's not about propaganda or anything we are direct under your leadership, please give up and bend the collar for the driver running our business, this is the only way we can more choice and more freedom to make a long fight with this uber or lift, they are the militia, they are not uniform, we are yuan format, so rethe very target. public like us but now it's changing, before you said you're going to spend money to promote driving in the city, but only you said, you never do you never do the buses or

anything, but i see lift advertised on a muni bus, you never do anything for us, but you're going the bundle also because you have 150 million loan is the cab driver, a lot of cab driver now trying to walk away from the business now. >> thank you, thank you, mr. lee. >> mike ritter, mark gruberg, robert chasana. >> good afternoon, thank you for letting me speak citizens business owner, lifetime voter in san francisco. i'm here to ask the board to exempt motorcycles and scooters from the rpp program. i recently am in a neighborhood that area q has added the rpp which will hopefully allow for a bit more park ining our neighborhood and everything else but then was to find out that the motorcycles were charged the same $110 that a car is charged and the rational for that is the cost of enforcement is the same. now, we all know that common

sense says you can stick 8 motorcycles in one car space so i'm hoping you guys can help invent advise mow cycle and scooter parking but taking the need for the rpp for motorcycles and scooters which clearly will allow for more parking, less congestion, less wear and tear in the city. the revenues that the rpp bring in from motorcycles, i haven't been able to find this 10 million that it puts out for the car, if motorcycles are included in that, it's a small number. motorcycles will help, gone are the days of the harley david sons, we have thousands of small scooters that just add to the transportation system, unfortunately, the mta doesn't really add motorcycles too, you lump them up as part of cars and everything else, so i hope you guys could consider that. i got a thousand signatures

together of people who are supporting it, i think it would be a great olive branch to give back to the people instead of constantly the people feel the sfmta is taking parking and making it difficult, people in motorcycles and scooters are trying to help the city, trying to get somewhere and enjoy the retail environment in the city and everything else, so i hope you guys would consider this and vote on it and thank you. shall i leave these petitions with you guys? >> (calling speaker names). >> could i have the overhead projector, please. thank you. so i also want to talk about the loss of the curb cut-out

spaces along the caltrans station. this is a photo of what it looks like and you can see that the no parking taxi zone sign has been moved from what was the front of the cut-out and we've lost about four spaces there, and they've been given over to bicycle racks for the bicycle share program, and which is totally unnecessary because you can't see it in the picture, but behind that bicycle facility on the right is a rather wide plaza-like area where there are already some bike stands and many more could have been located. taking away this zone, it's like kicking somebody when they're down. why did this happen? we weren't notified of it. i have been told this was not even agendized, maybe if i'm

mistaken about that, please excuse me but i've heard this was not on an agenda, it was just done. whether or not twitches, we should have been notified this was going to happen so we could weigh in on it. you'll see in the picture that there are already vehicles using that zone, maybe they're dropping off, but we believe that this is just going to be a staging area for tnc's maybe not coincidentally, lift had a little party across the street on the day that this happened to announce their $3 lift line rides from the cal-train station, how do we compete with this? this is going to be a virtual taxi stand for them and we're going to be pushed to the back and people are also going to come off those trains and get into those vehicles without our being able to do anything about it and there are larger issues

here of justice that i hope you're going to stand up, thank you. >> thank you, thank you, mr. gruber. >> (calling speaker names). >> could i have the -- good afternoon, commissioners, sooner or later you're going to have to decide if you want a taxi industry sti. i actually don't believe you do and i believe because of ed lee, everybody is afraid of their jobs so you don't care about it at all, but if you should care a little bit, you should look at the kind of letter that your people in the taxi offices send.

they've sent us a let and her they said medallion holders, now you've got to pay darkly to the taxicab industry and do you know why? because one of the companies bounced a few checks, and so what do they do? they send a letter to us and say, the only form of payment other than going to the credit union and saving up over next year so you wouldn't have any money for this year anyway is by check and they charge an administration fee of $3.50 for a check everywhere in the mta, you take credit cards. the mta says companies must accept credit cards from taxi driver, taxi drivers must accept credit cards from customers but you guys are

exempt. there are lots of people who don't have checking accounts, but they have a credit card and a debit card, and you don't take cash. i ordered from the bank a thousand dollars of pennies in order to pass a message, but you don't take cash. you take cash downstairs, you take credit cards i can renew my clipper account with a credit card. >> thank you. >> but, no. >> thank you. >> (calling speaker names). >> mcguire. >> mary mcguire, taxi driver, i'd like to also address the cal-train issue done without any hearing as far as we know, no public input i understand legislation created this cab stance, so don't you need legislation to remove it or give it to somebody else like

lift, they advertised on their website, it's the first step on the lift line and they had a party across the street to celebrate it. so, now, you know, i'm starting to reconsider everything now like those transit lanes you gave us think ear not for us are they, they're not created for us any more than the t line was created for the residents of the bayview it's for the lift, it's for uber and i found on the grapevine on transportation, polk street merchants, they were dinosaurs, they'll be out of business in a few years because everybody shops online now and i feel she may as well have been talking to us, we don't need you anymore, we don't want you but we'll take your money we'll take your thousand dollars, your hundred dollars for a card, but we don't want you, you're trying to destroy us, you advertise for these people on the buses on the bus shelters and there's no doubt in my mind now. do you want me to give back my

medallion, is that what you want me to do because i can't take it anymore, i'm not going to do that, and the residents of san francisco, believe it or not, they like cabs, there are a lot of people who like to take a cab and you're taking that away from them and you're giving it to these two bit billionaires or whatever it is that's running around time and talk about labor issues, yeah, they've got them, so this is our city, this is my city, i've been driving a cab and i'm not giving you back my medallion and we're not going to give back our city to these people or you either. >> thank you, ms. mcguire, next speaker. >> (calling speaker names). >> hi, thank you, so, this is the first year that the medallion holder renewal fee which is a thousand dollars is the sole responsibility of the me dap -- medallion holder, what should the amount be, you could say $10 or 10 thousand

dollars and our choice is either pay it or have our medallions revoked so in look to see what's reasonable in the current climate, i'll point out that i'm fortunate enough to have a medallion after working 20 years to get it a year ago, i was getting $2300 a month gross from the taxi company operating my medallion, it's tall way down to a thousand dollars, and many of us who are holder and disabled can work much if at all, so the thousand dollars becomes our monthly income, in con t*ebltion, in the five years we have a medallion sales program, you sold 500 medallions for 250 thousand dollars and 200 at a reduced cost of 125 thousand that adds up to 150 million over five years which is [inaudible] a year, i think the appropriate thing for you to do is waive the fee this year or cut it in half. i'll point out there are about 15 thousand lift in uber

ex-drivers performing taxi work without having a permit, they stone walled us and said informing us isn't our responsibility, it's to the public utility commission, the state laws is to have a commercial plate if you're doing commercial work, you have to have commercial insurance, so these people operating without overhead this is invisible rope from silicon valley that's tying everyone's hands, before than go off on a rant, i'll say that i hope you will discuss this and cut this in half, if not waive it this year. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> (calling speaker names). >> speak into the microphone. >> could i have the overhead before you start the clock. >> i don't control the overhead, that's sfgtv. >> got it, thank you. >> this is what was distributed

at the cab companies on the weekend, alright, this, what happened to giving us a hearing about the -- i'm done -- about this -- the proposal for this, what happened to that? i personally take offense at what happened here because i helped create this cab stand i volunteered my time when they remodeled the train station to make sure we had a decent space to pick up the disabled people and people with lots of luggage close to the entrance to the train station, now they can't even see us. who did this? i want to know who what, when, where and why you ought to ask that question too ed ris k*in should know this now, i think this happened because jerry robins is no longer working for you, i ask you to find another expert at taxi zones and taxi issues on the traffic engineering staff.

he was wonderful, he gave me warnings when things would come up and he would take action, when there were changes to the baseball game stands, he immediately called me, immediately sent me e-mails immediately so we were able to handle it right away. now we're at a case where we need to fight back. this is atrocious, you are destroying the cab industry little by little. this is really, really bad. i don't understand why you're doing this. next, i want to say you hold these driver appreciation parties, some of you attended them, you know, why, and this is how you show your appreciation, this is a very important cab stand lots of people have taken it more and more over the years, in close i want to say instead of spending money on a driver appreciation party, spend your money on water based lube ri cats like kw and put them in dispensers next to cab stands so it doesn't feel so bad. >> thank you, mr. toronto, next

speaker. >> (calling speaker names). >> herbert [inaudible] stakeholder, two issues, one is about the google buses. i believe that agreement for the google buses was built on a house of sand because it constituted a hand shake agreement between bowers intellectual transportation and the mta, and this issue came in the san francisco examiner several months ago and there's a contention about this that barbery coast is trying to resolve the issue with the mta i don't know if they have, but if you base the google buses on a hand shake agreement, i wonder how legal that is. if mta bases a lot of its

policies on hand shake agreements, this really throws a very horrible light on mta. i came in light to the -- late to the meeting today, i understand there's a renewal fee that's going to be charged for medallion, i want to ask the commission, what if the commissioners had to pay a renewal fee for serving on this commission, what would your reaction be? probably some of you would get up and leave. thank you. >> thank you, mr. winer. >> (calling speaker names). >> i think you guys are paying a [inaudible] like these cab people hold thing medallion, they work for 34 years to earn the medallion, now you are dividing, so i think you guys are not doing your job, so nester time, i will see you in the court, [inaudible] will sue

the city, 500 medallion orders will sue the city, we will see you in the court, thank you. >> thank you, mr. sing next speaker. >> tim, he's the last person who turned in a speaker card. >> my name is tim, i've been driving 7, 8 years trying to save money to buy a medallion, now it's $250, even if you give it to me for free i won't be able to afford it, i go to the airport, circle around four, five times, there's s medallion and 8 thousand, this is supposed to stay in the city to work. i make about $150 take home a day, now it's like $50, you know, you might as well give me the s medallion, i'll stay in the city, everything is slowly, slowly going down, people have a house payment, car payment, they're just trying to feed their families, and if it's like this another five years,

i'm probably going to have to do something else, it makes it worse, uber and lift, it takes 30 minutes to go in the city, now it takes about 50 minutes. the wait time at the airport is two hour, calculate that, two hours, 50 minutes, almost 3 hours, $50. and my shift, one hour pick up, one hour drop off, ten hours of work, i can't survive, you know, but you got to do what you got to do. thank you. >> thank you, tim. >> natashia dedric followed by b a, trichussein. >> i'm coming here to speak on the oversize vehicle issue but this enrages me so much, i can't help myself. i'm -- i occasionally ride a cab, i'm a bicyclist, but i can

say that as a bicyclist, i've noticed that change at the cal train station, it doesn't make any sense put those bikes on the sidewalk and i'm a serious cyclist and i'm just going to advocate for that, get the taxis back where they belong, also i had the experience a few days ago of somebody ordering an uber for me it was my first experience and i want you to know, i consider a serious safety risk in this city, it was a horrifying experience, the person grew up in san francisco nonetheless, she did not know where she was going at all, like no clue, what's a one-way street, we went way out of our way, it was completely insane and she nearly killed pedestrians, hit car, it was endless, it was outrageous, it took 20 extra minutes to go where we were going and that's -- i just don't understand why there's professionals, you don't go to like an amateur for things, you want a proper service, you know, you go to a

professional, taxi drivers are professionals and with the medallion situation, i don't understand why they have to -- i just don't understand the medallion situation at all and how other companies are able to avoid that and put these crazy people on the street. i'm sure some of them are good, but ultimately there's no regulation, you're putting people in harm's way and it's on you and i just really as a resident of san francisco want to -- i'm totally solid down with the taxi drivers. >> mr. hussein, the last person who turn ined a speaker's card. >> it seems to me there is so many times we've been attending these meetings and i've been talking. i don't see any doing things by you with my respect, but there is a serious issue and i keep talking, we are cab drivers, we have families, we need you to do something regarding those

guys over on lift and some other companies, i mean, i'm asking you two thing come over, see us at the airport, see us on the weekdays even on the weekend now is getting worse, we don't work. our business really dropped down. i mean, i don't know what we're waiting for, you know, and so many places, they've been doing things and they ao*f been looking for their own people but we are a part of your community, i mean, how many times do we need to attend, we need to improved things, you know, better. we have like some issues at the airport, they keep hassling us with too many cab, they keep us circling, circling, circling and one human right for us when we did strike, they start hassling us and they keep saying, okay, we'll see you, we'll this and that, you're

going to do strike, i mean, this is the land of freedom, and two freedom, we did the strike and we've been hassled, we did also things, you know, we keep feting for our right nothing to do, i mean, really serious problem, 85% even more our business to drop. we're not -- i'm talking about myself even, we all have families and kids. and regarding some friends, you know, or colleagues, they keep saying about us medallions and 8 thousand but there is -- you need to do something also for that and plus >> thank you, mr. hussein, i need to stop you there is there one mr. speaker card, i think it's right there, ms. boomer. >> i can't read her name. >> alright.

>> could you use the microphone please, the one to your left. >> okay, again good afternoon to everybody. >> what's your name. >> mariana fotio, and everybody said about everything except really at this point it is critical if you can reconsider the medallion fee for this year, it's really lousy and it's stiff and things are so bad, please reconsider and give us a waiver this year. >> thank you, thank you, mariana. before we move on director rise k*in, would it be possible to take a deeper look at the taxi stand at the cal train station? >> we absolutely will, i learned about it from the industry starting over the last couple of day, so we will do so, we'll have our sustainable streets folks look and also see

if there's something we can work out with cal-train, i concur with the sentiment of the driver, we are looking at the issue of the fees, the medallion fees generally, the issue of the payment methods was a new one is that tha* we will look at as well. >> i understand one of the beauty of those bike share stations is they are quite mobile, they literally can be sort of picked up and moved. director heinicke? >> the bike share program is something that you sort of have signed up for, so there's a little bit more knowledge in the bike share program whereas a whole of a visible taxi stand is to make the option of the taxi available to a rider who's getting a ride to the south bay, and i guess an important thing to say is thank you to corey lamb and the others who brought this to o our attention because without you, we wouldn't have known about it i don't go to the cal train station very often, so thank you for the e-mail that we all

read and we appreciate that. the other thing that i would ask to look in on this is the process, last time around, i quizzed the director on whether we need a number on the top of the casing i mean, we're getting now into the small thins, anything we can do to aid this industry which we've partnered with and to me moving a cab stand is pretty high on the list of impact things, that's definitely something if it happens the industry should be consulted and even frankly smaller things should get noticed and at least staff level comment back, so look, these things happen and it sounds like we're going to address it, i think the message to the taxi department has to be especially in these times anything that's going to affect the industry the industry has to have advanced notice. >> absolutely, we'll look at what happened with this. i think direct torx i think there's been a lot of good strides in terms of communication with the industry. this is one that was