i don't know why we are considering it and-the cpuc-(inaudible) >> your time has lapsed. chair preston there are no additional callers in the queue. >> thank you, public comment is closed, and i have a couple other questions. you have amendments to make. we'll move those after. i want to check a comment i third mr. gruber made at least two other callers. the statement i think someone said that we currently dont have enough cabs to cover the demand and there is a shift from a hundred-dollarful of months where that might not have been the case. is that accurate and how does it create concerns this pilot will make it where there are not sufficient cabs to meet demand of those trying to book a cab outside of uber? >> so, we are going to pull up a slide to show during the pandemic the medallions on the street plummeted. we'll show first the trips. just to see obviously had a big plunge down with trips and they started coming back up and then the next slide show the average taxi medallions in service per month and similar trends. you will see that there were over 1200 medallion

initial analysis like joe mentioned that the data from the tnc side has been hard to come by and the cpuc just released the one year of the annual report, so as i understand it, our colleagues at the sfcta have been doing some data analysis. there is some initial but i don't have any of that to show and that isn't my area of expertise, that is your staff over at all the ta, joe and drew and their team. but we do have some-we do track it on the taxi side of the house. i could show you we track the median taxi fare on a bi-weekly basis so if that is helpful to see and once we get the data in, again for those pilot trips then we can do that type of comparison. there will be a bit of lag time and before the data enters into our system, but- >> i don't think i need to see the median tax fare i'm interested as it relates to the wisdom of the policy the only relevant thing is comparison to what we expect. it is hard to know do we expect generallyal the uber fare will be significantly higher, significantly lower, 50/50 because each has different policy concerns or implications. if it is lower we

initial analysis like joe mentioned that the data from the tnc side has been hard to come by and the cpuc just released the one year of the annual report, so as i understand it, our colleagues at the sfcta have been doing some data analysis. there is some initial but i don't have any of that to show and that isn't my area of expertise, that is your staff over at all the ta, joe and drew and their team. but we do have some-we do track it on the taxi side of the house. i could show you we track the median taxi fare on a bi-weekly basis so if that is helpful to see and once we get the data in, again for those pilot trips then we can do that type of comparison. there will be a bit of lag time and before the data enters into our system, but- >> i don't think i need to see the median tax fare i'm interested as it relates to the wisdom of the policy the only relevant thing is comparison to what we expect. it is hard to know do we expect generallyal the uber fare will be significantly higher, significantly lower, 50/50 because each has different policy concerns or implications. if it is lower we

i don't know why we are considering it and-the cpuc-(inaudible) >> your time has lapsed. chair preston there are no additional callers in the queue. >> thank you, public comment is closed, and i have a couple other questions. you have amendments to make. we'll move those after. i want to check a comment i third mr. gruber made at least two other callers. the statement i think someone said that we currently dont have enough cabs to cover the demand and there is a shift from a hundred-dollarful of months where that might not have been the case. is that accurate and how does it create concerns this pilot will make it where there are not sufficient cabs to meet demand of those trying to book a cab outside of uber? >> so, we are going to pull up a slide to show during the pandemic the medallions on the street plummeted. we'll show first the trips. just to see obviously had a big plunge down with trips and they started coming back up and then the next slide show the average taxi medallions in service per month and similar trends. you will see that there were over 1200 medallion

it says they are investigating, and the only submitted the report to the cpuc quote at end of abundance of caution. meanwhile firefighters have been struggling to contain the mosquito fire, which is burning in mountainous terrain and triple digit temperatures. this canyon, the 3/4 of the american river. and the rubicon drainage are three of the most unforgiving pieces of country we have in in northern california. black smoke has been seen filling the sky in the sierra stretching all the way to lake tahoe. the fire jumping the american river yesterday, forcing mandatory evacuation orders in the communities of volcano ville, bottle hill and georgetown. four o'clock in the morning. we got the door knocked you need to get out. the sheriff came and picked us up. and he had to drive through fire to get us out. we don't know what's going to happen with if our trailer burns down. where are we going to live? um you know, it's just it's very scary, scary. indeed, the fire is also forced the closure of the pacific crest trail, which at this time of year as hikers going along it from mexico to cana