and barrie toronto going to -- hello, barrie. can you hear us? >> yes. >> you have two minutes. thank you, very much. >> thank you. first, the most important thing is everybody should congratulate laura thom a for all of her work, service work, working with the aids foundation and her role. one of my best cab customers. everybody should download the app and do what she does and thank you, laura. there's a problem with some of the bigger nightclubs. they are blocking off a lot of curb space with cones. not just the parking lane but part the traffic lane and you may need to deal with the permit of the operations of the club itself but i think you should be concerned they are taking away street space so i am raising this issue and i've done this before and i'm coming out of a pandemic with having the shared spaces and they're not supposed to go into the traffic lanes and they have a lot of solicitors and temple at 540 howard street. go down at night and you will see what a mess it is down there and it has to be called on the carpet how they allow the solicitors in the black s.u.v.s

barry toronto. barry, if you want to unmute yourself.you have two minutes for public comment. >> hey, yeah. i know -- first time i've been able to follow a meeting in a long time and participating. i think mr. rennie should know better than to leave out taxis. people are taking taxis late at night and increasing frequency because people are tired of uber and lyft, not knowing where they're going and their surge pricing is out of this world. so i don't know why he left out that taxis should also be included as part of the transportation to and from the new nightclub. because 181 has a big -- i used to go and watch in the early 80s, i used to watch live music there. it was a great place for transgender people to go for entertainment as well. so it was a big loss when that original nightclub closed. so it would be great to see a good use for that space. but i am concerned about whether they're going to allow for the white zone to pick up and drop off. it is a challenging block. and it would be best they make sure they have a space rather th

this is barry toronto. we talked about the outside lands transportation service. i want to let you know that you [inaudible] from serving that event. we had a wonderful e-mail blast sent by phil inkarenna. great job. excellent information. but it was false. because on sunday they took away our [inaudible]. they put buses there. we had no place to queue up during the event. they put buses there. and i think i got a double parking ticket and i was talking to a -- an inspector who was extremely rude to me. you don't want us serving these event because i will talk about it later in public xhefnlt but i want to let you know regarding the outside lands, we -- people were being faced with pricing that was out of this world. and what did you do? you barred taxis from serving the event. you barred taxis. what happened? there should be a complete investigation as to why you removed our cab stand that made it easy for people to get cabs and not pay surge pricing. i want to let you know that this -- this -- this organi

this is barry toronto. it's nice to be able to do public comment before 5:00 p.m. on a tuesday.in solidarity with the purchased medallion holders. there needs to be some debt relief for them. the deputy city attorney and his closing statement on the jury trial with the credit union said that sfmta never not had the taxi industry's back. [please stand by] >> i beg of you to help get this taken care of. thank you. >> thank you. operations do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> this is mark. i'm a taxi driver and a board member of the san francisco taxi worker's alliance. when the san francisco federal credit union lost the lawsuit, they said this was good news for.agency. the agency. it wasn't good news for the taxi drivers. many of them are faltering on the loans and many of them are facing financial ruin. there may not be a legal obligation and i believe there's a moral obligation. many who waited years for a medallion and it was striped away from them and made to them to buy for $250,000. these holders need to be compensated and redeemed. the mta is not going to do

this is barry toronto. can you hear me? >> president: yes. >> caller: yes. i'm an activist taxi driver and i've been following the issue of access to golden gate park and the issue of continued closure of jfk drive. we're not going to get involved in the taxi driver. we are going to get involved in being able to have access to the concourse. i have not been in golden gate park for almost two years and because of lack of access from golden gate park. it would be great if we could expedite the access to golden gate park from 8th and fullton so that we can help transport seniors and disabled and tourists through the amenities of the park and be able to take it safely going from the lincoln end of the park is not an option at this point due to the time consumption required to do that and the cost to the passenger. so it would be great if you could make this happen sooner than later. i hope you expedite this because it's your decision and the board of supervisors' decision alone. also to take families from parts of the city that are not easily accessible by those

this is barry toronto. it's nice to be able to do public comment before 5:00 p.m. on a tuesday. i am in solidarity with the purchased medallion holders. there needs to be some debt relief for them. the deputy city attorney and his closing statement on the jury trial with the credit union said that sfmta never not had the taxi industry's back. [please stand by] >> i beg of you to help get this taken care of. thank you. >> thank you. operations do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> this is mark. i'm a taxi driver and a board member of the san francisco taxi worker's alliance. when the san francisco federal credit union lost the lawsuit, they said this was good news for.agency. the agency. it wasn't good news for the taxi drivers. many of them are faltering on the loans and many of them are facing financial ruin. there may not be a legal obligation and i believe there's a moral obligation. many who waited years for a medallion and it was striped away from them and made to them to buy for $250,000. these holders need to be compensated and redeemed. the mta is not going

this is barry toronto. my heartfelt condolences to supervisor ronen. now i know where she her spunk and her energy. what an amazing man your father was. may his memory be a blessing. also, happy hanukkah and [speaking native language] . i beg you to put this off for a hearing. also, mentioning the new york taxi workers alliance, they got involved in the regulations. how it was phrased was false, misleading, and doesn't represent the drivers' participation in negotiations. i ask you to at least amend it to make sure -- please, i know that supervisor peskin did the best he can with his staff to write this resolution, but we ask that it go to a committee hearing. thank you very much for your time. >> clerk: thank you, mr. toronto, for your comments. all right. operations, let's hear from our next commenter, please. >> thank you, supervisors. this is mark gruberg. also a member of the san francisco taxi workers alliance, and i also send my condolences to supervisor ronen. this really needs to go to committee. the resolution does not -- the only parties in