mcguire. >>> good afternoon, mary mcguire, taxi driver. they are leasing the rent medallions to the cab companies. i'm concerned about how, how this will impact the service. now, it's a current standard of 8 wheelchair pick ups a month. that is not very many. if that is the standard, would that be for each driver or each medallion? and who is responsible for maintaining the standard applied to the ramp drivers themselves or the cab companies? currently the medallion holder is responsible for that. and what incentives would the drivers have to maintain this service, if they don't have the medallion any more? if the company is just going to hire lease drivers to do these -- to drive these ramp medallions, how will the standard be maintained if they're not employees? if they're independent contractors, they're unable to enforce, enforce any employee rules. so, i think you should consider that. and also the legislation mentions that -- about the current ramp drivers would be eligible to purchase this half price medallion, $150,000. it's not cl

it's not ride sharing if they have to have this kind of insurance. >> next speaker, please. >> mary mcguire, followed by barry corn gold. >> good afternoon, ms. mcguire. >>> mary mcguire, taxi driver. i'm going to follow-up what the others said about the lift. first of all, the passenger is unaware, they just go through [speaker not understood]. despite repeated requests from ed heely, [speaker not understood], they still have yet to produce any documentation proving they have insurance. as they claim, they have a 1 million supplemental excess liability insurance policy per occurrence to cover each driver. i don't know how they can do that. how can it be supplemental when the private vehicle, the insurance commissioner has ruled that it doesn't cover the private vehicle? so, $1 million, talk is cheap. today's new york times business section, i don't know whether you saw the story -- they ran the story about start ups. maybe 40 or more up to 100. they are heavily invested in venture capital side car uber. even the ceos of these companies are reluctant to go out and buy a new car because they

. >> paul mcmurdo followed by mary mcguire and barry corn gold. >> good afternoon, mr. mcmurdo. >>> good afternoon. i agree with the comments of the two previous speakers. most cities have a public convenience necessity type process and the idea is to do a balancing act to make sure there are enough taxis to serve the public. at the same time the taxi companies can make a reasonable profit and the drivers can earn a living. seattle, washington and washington, d.c. are among jurisdictions who attempted to have an open entry model to see how things would work and it was rather disastrous. there was chaos, poor service, unsafe driving, a lot of accidents. then they went back to [speaker not understood], there is an annual hearing to see how many taxis should be on the street. by way of analogy, you have a corner store market every three blocks. proprietor can make a living in the neighborhood [speaker not understood]. there happen to be 3 or 4 people on one block that want to [speaker not understood], they're going to drive each other out of business. that is the exact dyn