that's why people like luxor cab. i want to support your effort to consolidate the efforts, that's very important. but the particular thing that's on the table doesn't seem right to me. i sure hope i don't regret saying this because if you decide not to do what she is asking and the deviciveness continues, that won't be good. taxi magic is the best. >> thank you, senior. mr. lamb ?oo ?a good afternoon again. my concern has to do with, i'm all for regulation and i think if there's a problem with regulation then the hammer needs to be thrown upon those companies that aren't following those regulations. as a person who is monitored on everything i do including stretching in the cab and drinking in the cab or whatever else i do in the cab, more regulation is not (inaudible) i don't want another one, another piece of technology that i have no idea who fti is. they have a bunch of employees in nevada but i'm not one of their employees and i don't think there's ever been a time that sfmta has contacted me anyway but they can

my name is john lazar, president of luxor company. sorry to say, we oppose this contract, either you reject the contract or table the item for future consideration. staff has proposed a $6 million contract that is both unnecessary and unwise. this would not provide sfmta the tools to better regulate the industry. the contract will give a las vegas transportation company a virtual monopoly over taxi operations in the city, cannibalize existing taxi brands and cause companies like luxor to consider legal remedies. we at luxor have cooperated at every level, every step to advance the goal and purpose of the sfmta, including this attempt to create the eta, in fact we provided our data to fti in early may and signed a letter sent to the sfmta that gave permission to the sfmta and sei work with our vendors. we have acted with good faith and yet we face another expenditure of public funds that would be insbrues intrusive of our business prrp fti has never provided to us or our vendors precisely what date of data is required in what format or

that's why people like luxor cab. i want to support your effort to consolidate the efforts, that's very important. but the particular thing that's on the table doesn't seem right to me. i sure hope i don't regret saying this because if you decide not to do what she is asking

i was privileged to know dave and through him i was privileged to know other great drivers at luxor who remember him as a kind and generous person who liked to smoke a big cigar. even younger drivers remember him who took the time to teach them the tricks of the trade. he will be affectionately remembered by a lot of people for many years to come. thank you for this opportunity to remember this ciefer. >> with members' consent we will adjourn the meeting in memory of mr. deforest. >> items 11 and 16 beth call for the board to take approval actions within the meaning of chapter 31 of the san francisco administrative code as it was amended by ordinance 161-13. as to each of these items the planning department has issued a determination that the items are categorically exempt from the california quality act. the exemptions are posted on the planning department's web site. these exemptions determinations are subject to appeal within the time frame specified in the admin code section 31.16, which is typically 30 days. for information on filing an appeal a member of the public should contact

dave drove a taxicab for nearly 50 years for the city, first for desoto, later as a driver for the luxor company. at this time i'd like to ask director i'd like if you'd like to say a few words about mr. deforest. >> i'll be brief. dave deforest was a high school basketball star, he held a business degree, he held a degree in computing before anyone knew what computing was. this january 3rd he would have celebrated 50 years as a tax driver, almost all of which he spent in the city of san francisco. i was privileged to know dave and through him i was privileged to know other great drivers at luxor who remember him as a kind and generous person who liked to smoke a big cigar. even younger drivers remember him who took the time to teach them the tricks of the trade. he will be affectionately remembered by a lot of people for many years to come. thank you for this opportunity to remember this ciefer. >> with members' consent we will adjourn the meeting in memory of mr. deforest. >> items 11 and 16 beth call for the board to take approval actions within the meaning of chapter 31 of the san fr

we also have desoto and luxor coming out with their own apps. the public is already used to using these apps and the market has shifted in this direction whether we like it or not, so we're better off not disrupting it because it is keeping people in taxis and bringing new people into the taxi industry. it's normal for a driver now to have his dispatch from his company as well as their fly wheel app or the other app that we will not mention because i'm against it, of course, and i see why the companies don't want this, i don't blame them in any way shape or form. i would prefer personally that you use this money to enforce, for enforcement against rogue limousines and taxis at the ballpark and hotels and at nightclubs where limo vultures are aggressive to both drivers and passengers. we need signs at the golden gate bridge letting them know what numbers they can call so they are not stranded in the cold. it's not right that tourists don't have not even one phone number at the golden gate bridge, the biggest land mark maybe in the country as well

dave drove a taxicab for nearly 50 years for the city, first for desoto, later as a driver for the luxor company. at this time i'd like to ask director i'd like if you'd like to say a few words about mr. deforest. >> i'll be brief. dave deforest was a high school basketball star, he held a business degree, he held a degree in computing before anyone knew what computing was. this january 3rd he would have celebrated 50 years as a tax driver, almost all of which he spent in the city of san francisco. i was privileged to know dave and through him i was privileged to know

. >>> right now the luxor hotel in las vegas, the one shaped like a pyramid, is housing the largest collection of "titanic" memorabilia ever assembled anywhere. but there's a problem. a sign at the exhibit captures on twitter announced without irony it's been closed due to water damage. no word on when it will reopen. >>> when we come back here tonight, a man who has given hope to so many when they needed it most. >>> finally tonight the power of one man to save lives and lift spirits. the golden gate bridge is a landmark of the west, one of the most popular places in the world for tourists to visit and, sadly, it's also a place where people go because they have lost all hope and wish to end it all. few know it better than kevin briggs, a sergeant with the california highway patrol, and a guardian of the golden gate. his very unique and moving story tonight from our national correspondent kate snow. >> reporter: sunrise over the golden gate bridge. the anticipation of a new day. how many times do you think you have been on this bridge? >> thousands of times. thousands. >> reporter: after 23 ye

. >> good afternoon, commissioners, charles rathbone, dave deforest worked at luxor cab, a very long career, we were grateful to have his services. dave was much loved and much missed and your comments, director and the kind comments of miss hiashi are much appreciated. >> eric williams and then ed healy and then han sue kim. >> good afternoon, board members, director ruskin. i want to thank you for putting on the event sunday. as you very well know operators have been taking the brunt of the ridicule about the system for many, many years. i have expressed this to ed, many people, anybody that has anything to do with the sfmta that we need to regain at any cost the image that we're doing out there, the hard work they are putting in day in and day out, the men and women should be recognized. and we're not asking for anything special. but if we're talking about building morale, we're talking about having employees ready and willing to come to work, it's a good thing. like i said at the event, sports events, after the game, everybody gets a game ball. no matter what office you go into,

when protests against him from in full swing he appointed a man as governor of luxor, who was someoneho was part of the killings there. he won the election latter year with 52% of the vote after the up rising that got rid of hosni mubarak. but the street power that brought him into the country's highighest office would in the d see him deposed. the samal jazeera. >> earlier we heard from an egyptian judge and constitutional researcher in cairo. he believes morsi's decision to represent himself in court may have been ill-advised but the belief that the legal process is invalid. >> this trial reflects the political strife, and that this is not a trial by law. anmorsi and the muslim brotherhd should admit to the new situation. they were a force on the street. the trial is beginning, and he has to admit the whole process and defend himself. he is not any more the president of egypt. this is the reality. he has to admit the assistance of a legal team. my main concern is that this trial is de stabilizing the country and i do not want it to take a long time because the egyptian society is at

were in egypt, there were very, very few tourists there because not shortly before, the tourists in luxor had been mowed down by machine guns. and what's fueling this, of course, is the quest by fundamentalist, traditionalist muslims to overthrew what they perceive as the secular regime of mombaric. and more and more, akmad, this young person, is feeling that pressure- the pressure of the old, the old traditional, those very rigid ethical patterns of action that come out and are guided by the sharia and define the social dimension, he feels that pressure. so let's hear here from akmad, a young student we interviewed in cairo. >> we've explored interfaith tensions between jews, christians, and muslims in the middle east, but there are also intrafaith tensions- that means tensions within a single faith; in this case, islam. we spoke with a young student, akmad, who describes his frustrations being a young person- a muslim- living in a decidedly religious society. could you give us just a couple of examples of things you'd like to do on your own time in cairo that you can't do because islami