coming in right now here in san francisco we have the first of what will be the 60 new trolley coaches with are being tested expected to have it in service in may if they're one of the next two board meetings it ask for the authority to purchase 98 buses an additional 60 and 40 foot buses the first 60 buses were coming off the plant in minnesota and 61 will be in service by the end of september of 2015 so we're photocopying following through and delivering on the program and continuing to improve the maintenance practices that's a huge difference not only buying the new equipment but how we're doing the business and maintain our vehicles just a quick

reference to something that's our sunday best we were beginning to notice we were losing a couple of coaches three or four or 5 coaches on a sunday to mechanical failure that's unacceptable you should have their best buses on particularly on a weekend when the delays are longer than so we started a process to begin to reconfigure the yard so on friday night the best vehicles the best mechanic histories are lined up to go out there so part of this not only building on the foundation to deliver the service but more reliable and more consumer friendly part of the effort is rebranding part of what we've been able to do with adding the red lines like the a

x and the 14 to pick up the pace and instructions the travel time we want to recognize the rapid service so what ear doing is adjusting the name clasp on some of the systems what you see is some of the new names where the exits where about a simpleer cleaner system as question move forward with the numerous changes take place over the next several weeks pursue part of this with our help again going through a rebranding effort that is the shelter that will be one of 3 hundred or so that will go up over the next couple of years as we introduce those with to customer amenities better enhancements and visibility like bicycle racks and new system map that will be helping people to

see where the lines go and some of the signage to reflect that the red is the rapid signs and the blue so for the more local lines although certainly, if you look at the 14 mission line you know the amount of people it carries and how important it is as well and the orange for the historic lines so part of this is an effort to make the consumer be able to see which line to take and which stop to go to so this is part of the rebraind efforts this is some of the shelter combachls we'll be talking about this is a quick snapshot of one part of the red lines to designate rapid so it is easy to see meaning skip stops and blue for local for all your stops part of the effort to

better inform people to let them know where to make connections those it some of the features of the rest of the bicycle racks on the new buses we're testing a 3 bus excuse me. 3 bus - 3 bike rack so part of the with whole moving forward program we've taken a comprehensive look this is to look cross the system and 3 service increases that pretty much touch all the riders across the system in the next several months so there's an outreach effort to let people know it won't be only signage but ambassadors and others on the street to explain to people what the changes mean for them and where they'll be take place so this is truly an exciting

time for us and again, we appreciate our continued support and we want to thank you because it is not often you're in a position as a organization to increase our service and be able to have the solid foundation to be able to sustain it because we are getting better we've got a long way to go and appreciate all the help you've given us to get there. >> thank you exciting is the right word this certainly has the ability to make dramatic changes thank you for your leadership. >> mr. chairman you have. >> that concludes my report. >> this is the opportunity for members of the public to address the board an matters discussed

by director reiskin and mr. haley only two speakers herbert wiener and another person. >> good afternoon. >> herbert wiener moving forward forward over seniors of disabilities folks and with limited access to city services accident san francisco general and the hall of justice get on board it's hard to do if you're under the wheels now i appreciate the service improvement but where are the neighborhoods where do they fit if have buses been taken from the neighborhoods to implement those improvements? or is there simply or have buses been added to the fleet you know this is something that needs to be clarified in addition you still expect senior citizen

seniors to walk a quarter of a mile to a bus stop i've heard from the mta management and people from the board what is walk is good for you or take par trait or 3 public transportation is not for everyone now if this continues public transportation won't be for everyone and public transportation should be for everyone not for certain routes but the whole of the city this is not happening within the plan so those are my concerns and by the way, ed please answer my e-mail >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> he's the last person to address this by director reiskin or mr. haley. >> good afternoon directors. >> one of the items that was better transit recognition we used to have one hundred taxis

for the area where are the ramps i don't see more than 10 really moving in the city the numbers maybe there and the thought but the books maybe there but really not there would you, please get all the data in front of the the public there is 90 rams almost missing and some on regular taxis and the second item highway some mr. director mentioned but your city streets at bay bridge area are gridlocked so much it is more than horrible not only here but all over the planet but what are you doing for that there's a solution for that, yes. >> block the freeway traffic

for 5 minutes and move the city streets gridlock anti first every 5 minute every hour and you have your 20 blocks cleared in 5 minutes that's the second thing about this seniority list i've seen the name of the person who's vehicle was taken back when director malcolm heinecke can i was there i've seen the people who have received the medallion and their names are on the list and seeing none please. moving is scheduled the citizens advisory committee report i don't see mr. murphy e.r. many whatever here item 9 public

comment mr. chairman there are 25 people some of them in the overflow room i'll read several names at once (calling names). >> good afternoon i've sent several e-mails over the last week regarding driver safety we had a driver that was hit in the back of the head with a lock doing his job and another driver that was assaulted and hijacked in oakland back in february a driver that was eucost in the daily city we need to work together as policymakers and as members of the industry to understand that is unacceptable to assault a cab

driver the job is hard and we're not employees of the city but part of the city's transit system we demand roll call protection so this is not the right venue to make that request we urge i urge i'm sure my friends in the back urge direction we're working with the taxi testifying that's great but we need someone in the city to go to the state and make changes we're dealing with people that have been hurt and we as drivers can help ourselves it's only a few dollars led them go away i've spent 9 hours of my easter in the hospital it's really important so we all need to work together to figure out policies

new york has a hammer san francisco and california is a little bit different but make enhancements that take this serious so we need to make that happen >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon directors i'm richard wiener i'm here to ask you to wait for the medallion renewal fees for 2015 it comes as no surprises the taxi sdriz industry is facing difficult connection from the clerk among other things have a flat rate no limited to how many cars their literally nobody knows how many thousands of cars they're

operating and one help might be to require them to get a business license everyone that operates a business in san francisco needs a business license i'm not talking about the tmcs getting a car but if you get a law degree you need a business license to operate in san francisco there are many other things to the tmcs but those are the things that come to mind we're fatiguing a decrease in income and an increase in fines we need your help the taxi industry needs the city's help i'm i am mror you to wave the medallion fees for this year thank you. >> >> thank you. next speaker please. >> (clapping.)

(calling names). >> good afternoon. >> thank you. i agree that the fees should be wavered for the medallion renewable but have a separate hearing to see what the proper amount of the fee should be going forward there's 0 only two resources one is a form we give a fingertip every year the former 1095 and the other to produce a medallion with the metal plate so so $250 to recovery this over the time the reason the fee got how the city considers the medallion is property but now seven hundred people have bought the medallions and several paid $250 with heavier loan payments it is not reasonable to have this not related to the impact on the

staff the other things that director reiskin and director nolan and director heinecke will work with the mayors and convince them there's 15 thousand tmcs if those were not around you'd have a lot of revenue the city is losing because of the this stubborn policy (clapping.) >> before we get to the next speaker i assume that a lot of people are here to talk about that exact issue can i see a show of hands for people that are in support thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> good afternoon mr. haas. >> i'm david haas a long time can be driver 35 or 40 years losing track and hoping you'll

resend the annual medallion fee it happens in today is paper the business section an oral uber jumping far ahead ever san francisco in the expense reports one statistic sums up that 71 percent of rides go through an expense management company during the first quarter 71 percent of rides were certified were for uber 29 percent used taxis obviously an unleveled applying in the can be industry is hemorrhaging shifts are going unfiled and medallion owners can't be paid because their cab drivers not will i belittling to work for low wages we'll urge to

resend the medallion fee thank you (clapping.) thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> (calling names.) >> who's the next one. >> rick arena (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir and good afternoon. i'm rick arena i'm here to try to figure out with the mta is going with last august i put my medallion up for transfer and i was told at the time i was if i was to pass away from the transfer the monies will go to my wife and child recently, i respect to the mta and talked with the staff she said that's no longer the case now in i pass away the medallion

the fees go back to the city i don't understand that is what they mean to do hurt the families that are in this room there's a lot of old-timers here it didn't make sense i thought you gave us an out i don't see it thank you. >> please. >> (calling names.) (clapping.) >> good afternoon, everyone. >> good afternoon, everyone. i drive for a yellow cab i want to speak about this i want to talk about the fee for the medallion fee every year our income dropped over 50 percent

you have 20 thousand tmc running all over the city with no regulations at all there's no regulations at all for them to do business no way you can rent a regulate bus and an unregulate business seattle has limited to 6 hundred and other cities take action i don't know san francisco let's everything under the sun now we're charging $5 a ride for customers and uber is contemplating the drivers this is - there's no way knot with tmc they can do anything they like why we're regulated by the city so something has to be done

again with the tmc companies that's all (clapping.) (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon director nolan march with the san francisco taxi workers alliance the sf t w a will be issues of importance to you and the rest of the city including the tmc and safeties issues i want to thank you dave and others for keeping the safety issues afloat it is really, really important i wanted to talk about the medallion renewable fee and other fees because this agency is collecting according to the budget about $10 million a year

from the taxi striate a time when drivers are suffering, our industry reeling you're using this is a cash cow for other projects but i note that your birthing budget is increased by 24 percent over the past 4 so that you are engaging in large increases in transit service we're paying for that that's not right to be taking it from an industry who's been hurt so badly and the city refuses to do anything to help what i'm saying you should no longer be charging those medallion fees you should no longer be charging drivers a card fees giving a break to the medallion holders is called for

but the ordinary driver needs a break they're hurting and suffering you're not doing anything but taking money from our industry i'm pleading with you to change that policy all taxi revenues collections go back for taxi purposes thank you (clapping) (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> my name is jim temple tony started driving a cab in 1973 the last thing we should be pleading with those people those people don't give a damn about us cab drivers don't give a damn you've got 15 thousand completely deregulated cars running around the city a no insurance (clapping.) you people regulate every nut and bolt in this city not you but the powers that be in the

city are getting paid off not with an envelope of money but called examining i heard your son and daughter is out of stanford yeah, we'll get them into google i have friends you regulate apartment buildings and everything how big the dents in the cabs are going to be and you've got to be one of the president a be silicon valley person running a business and not charging him a dime (clapping.) and your cowards you better start we need some of those ubers okay. we can't handle everything on friday night and when it's raining where seattle maybe a thousand they need commercial plates and commercial insurance

(clapping.) and don't beg those ass holes they don't care a thing about you. >> thank you. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> hello, i'm ving the holder a medallion member 744 been a taxi driver in the city for 41 years i want to point out the transportation services have dramatically cut into the taxi services the services are allowed to work without the training the licensing and the criminal background check and the things that did at the scene drivers have because of the this and unfair best practices lib uber give rides for less than they're operating costs the

workers restraining order struggling to make a woermdz i've asked to eliminate the medallion fee as well as the lack of regulation and oversight and the unfair best practices thanks for letting me speak. >> (clapping) (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. my name is it ron collins a yellow cab driver and medallion holder on behalf of of the guys that are here and those who canned because they're working i'm asking you to waiver at medallion fees not only for this year and next year but the a card fees cab drivers take a 50

persecute in pay i remember talking to you director i said if those cabs keep coming out and uber comes they can drive a yellow cab mushroom and uber can drive a yellow car those cars don't have medallion fees or a cards yet those guys have a million dollar insurance for every cab i'm asking you, sir in the words of harry truman the buck stops here you can stop the medallion fees now do what harry truman did the buck stops here (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir.

>> i'm ron walter driver for san francisco green can be urge you to wave the medallion fee and wave the a card fee it westbound a small amount to help us after what we've endured in the newspaper they've published an article rides for medallion based on our numbers we're down by 60 percent in the last two years and wanted to say about the stress since the tmcs came out one driver mentioned the expedition composition where people are in a level the playing field this is not competition in game is rigged (clapping.) we have been disappointed over the last few years by your action and inaction i think this

is a good time a few years back they were under the tmc order to cease and desit no one directed enforcement you need permits to hire now we see those people out here not business licenses as someone pointed out they're commenting insurance fraud why not directing your attention to that i expect it i told high passengers they've talked about it the other people end up with similar costs no they're lying and cheating you know please we need help thank you (clapping.) (calling names). >> herbert wiener now there's been talk about the

shuttles and the marina they charge of dollars a pop to take people downtown they're a weather - those shuttles are like red aunts attacking a corps and unfortunately, the corps is mta you should go over after those shuttles for fees they're a symptom of a serious problem of public transportation as to the medallions i have a proposal i think each mta board member should pay a renewable fee of goiblt of $100 a year for serving on the board what applies to the taxi drivers should apply to the board now $100 is not much you owe it to the public you're so money

hunger your socking to the public you pass prop a and the public is $5 million poorer for it with no guarantee of service now you guys don't take an uber or lift or others but you sock to the taxi drivers you you know what mta stand for more trouble ahead (clapping) (calling names). >> good afternoon. >> hi madeline on another note i want to thank the mta more quickly implementing the near term improvements only polk street they're effective not one hundred percent but ami i've seen the changes in