asper formance for yarding taxis i wonder if taxis shouldn't be severed from the jurisdiction of m.t.a >> i'm going to take a pause in the line and ask, i am sorry i forgot your name. >> we have achieved good evening, ladies and gentlemen. this is amazing. my name is ru i've been a cab driver for 40 years. now retired. i taught the taxi driver institute for 25 years on top of that. i've seen a lot. the streets have their own kind of honesty but i'd have to say, the politics i've seen in the 40 years i've driven a cab have not had the same kind of honesty. the city has sold cab drivers and the cabin does tre cab indue river, over and over again. this series of proposals is frankly the worst. this thing at the airport, is astounding. maybe we should have seen it coming but frankly i didn't. i'm sort of reminded of the scene in "a man for all seasons." thomas moore is leaving the castle, the king's castle at windsor and is going up river to his home and he asked the boatman and the boatman says how much will you pay. and moore says the price is set. >> thank you. i'm sorry. next speaker.

we have provisions for legal non com formance. we don't penalize someone for having something that doesn't meet our standards of the code. in this case, this provides an opportunity for the adjacent parcel to have a rear yard that extends further out. the planning code provides for the provisions to allow for that and in this case the calculation of the rear yard currently ends is appropriate and meets all-pro visions of what the code would allow. >> final question, um, one of the appellants requested the largest windows -- i heard two things. thethey wanted a reduction on se on the back side. they want

numbers, you will see today, first on analyst radar is rates and how rates are affecting bank better formance. a higher interest rate environment is good for banks. so long as they're able to pass those rates through and translate that to higher profitability. a lot comes down to whether higher rates have come in a steady slow fashion or whether they have come in a sharp, more unpredictable fashion. analysts and investors focus on how banks have behaved the second loan growth now loan growth in the u.s. has been decelerating for several quarters now this quarter is expected to be no different analysts looking for 2% loan growth that is a step down from the 5% to 7% loan growth we were seeing a few years ago. thirdly, trading revenues. now capital markets have become a lot more difficult and management teams of several of the banks have good morning through and gudided the market when it comes to trading revenues investment banking revenues will be weaker and this will only partially offset higher equity trading numbers. lastly, arguably most importantly, outlook investors will be listening ve

com formance. we don't penalize someone for having something that doesn't meet our standards of the code. in this case, this provides an opportunity for the adjacent parcel to have a rear yard that extends further out. the planning code provides for the provisions to allow for that and in this case the calculation of the rear yard currently ends is appropriate and meets all-pro visions of what the code would allow. >> final question, um, one of the appellants requested the largest windows -- i heard two things. thethey wanted a reduction on se on the back side. they want a reduction on the windows on the front side. what does that mean to the project and to the neighborhood in general? >> windows or massing? >> just windows. all i heard was windows. >> the reduction of windows either in the back or on the side wouldn't necessarily have any effect upon the neighborhood. >> the front windows and the back windows were mentioned. >> correct. >> are there ones that i would think would have the most sign