card as a vendor of cta and it would be your card. >> correct. >> that is huge for you. or any of your competitors. he who gets the big anchor company -- >> yeah. >> starts to be the currency of that city. >> it is a great anchor client in a network business. you have to pick your side and get it big fast. mass transit lined up well, it is unbanked, big ticket, small item. those are things that visa and mastercard don't do well. we will rip off tens of millions of operating expense. >> i have seen paypal and they have experimented with palo a o alto. what a company ought to be doing is what you are doing. what is the biggest darn thing we can think of, make that the currency of every transaction and come off of that. >> yeah. when you go into the brick and mortar world, it is a more efficient world. the prices of credit cards are drastically less in the brick and mortar world. the retailer he is sensitive to that. retailers run within very thin margins. walmart is 3% margin on $400 billion. 50 basis point differential you need to mark up on a credit card is huge. >> paym

the mta is not a serious part of the conversation with specific improvements that we can consider, ctanot serious about this proposal. supervisor mirkarimi: i want to remind people that if you have not spoken yet on items 13 and 14, please come up the aisle. we will be closing public comment soon. >> hello. in the chair of the city government of san mateo county. the first thing i would like to say is that we acknowledge and agree that congestion is a regional issue. it does not start at the border of san francisco and is not confined to downtown san francisco. if you want to go to the airport around commuter hours, you will see some of our congestion. want to get to silicon valley during those same hours? you will be in congestion. the city county association of governments is the management agency for the county. we also understand that this is a study. but honestly of felt like solutions were already being crawford before the study was conducted. san mateo county feels singled out on this and we wonder if we understand the underlying causes and current impact, regional patterns and

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