thank you local level from is subway we appreciate the staff work as well as the california transportation commission for advancing state fund for the central subway project and mta will stay on schedule for the large construction project to insure we will be protected from any freeze from the high funds. one area bay grant area from our programming direct examination division thank you to ann draw and other for working with the california transportation commission we were able to do some great work to insure that over subscription doesn't harm the one bay area grant this projects are a reminder of the second street project and the masonic streets project. there had been a proposal to ship those out but working with mta we've keep the the year of programming intact on the transbay center we congratulate the city on the establishment of the ma la recuse and supervisor kim with who chairs the ma la rose district that will help complete and support of the phase one terminal project and the caltrain extension into the transbay center. the cf defense is financing and funding mechanism that will help to pr

according to the california public utilities commission which are connected with the transportation services whether or not their fulfilled on the platform. we have introduce a new profile setting that you will see today under the lyft services. if you go to the user profile you will see an option to select access. anyone can enable that for their account and they can see a new access mode as well as the traditional mode. when a user has enabled the access mode it's possible to request one of the existing lines of service which includes classic lift, lift line which combines the carpool options and helps to take cars off the road or plus which is a larger vehicle that has 6 seats and able to accommodate wheelchairs. the request will be dispatched as a standard request for passengers, but the passenger will also receive a text message communicating that they may ask for extra serves they have. these vehicles are not ramp or lift vehicles. they drawn from the full lift driver population. however when an individual with an access enabled profile request a ride as an additional option that perso

night i had the privilege of attending the california public utilities commission, one of the opportunities to have a public forum about the issue of transportation network companies. we had the commissioner there from the c puc as well as two other members and we had good attendance from the public. we had members speaking on behalf of lyft and ride share as well as members of the taxi driving community. i myself gave a comment regarding some of the issues that we have seen at our meetings from presentations and ways we feel that needs that need to be addressed better. i'm ha epito say that i was asked back up to provide more questions for the commissioner as well as help council create an analysis report in depth for the c puc so that will be something that we can look into further. and for those who are interested in going to the second opportunity for providing public comment there will be another one in ovenlth -- october. you can contact the mayor's office on disability for more information about this opportunity. >> thank you. councilmember senhaux? >> the workgroup for seniors and people with disabilities and single room occupancy hotels

california public utilities commission that's important to know. the regulatory framework is currently quite misaligned as you have been hearing there's very structured regulations transportation code full of regulations and the cpuc regulates the tmc's a service very similar to our taxis and very different regulations and framework. i'm going to give one example -- here on the insurance which has been a hot topic of conversation and for example taxis are required to provide liability insurance and recently in sacramento a bill has been passed we're expecting it will be signed by the governor that requires a very different set of insurance standards for the tmc's starting july 1st during period one when there's no passenger on board a tmc the insurance requirement is fifty $50,000 for death and injury per person and a hundred thousand dollars per incident and 30 $30,000 for property damage and 200 thousand excess coverage and again that's period 1, no passenger on board and period 2 a million dollars coverage that's when a passenger is on board. so the -- thereof been a lot of impacts on the taxi industry related to the tmc's and some of them are hard to quantify i've if i've