mr. gilberte. >> thank you. a bunch of changes. electric -- >> chairman brinkman: give us your name for the record. >> tom gilberte. how about the daytime energy packs to rejuvenate the bus cells in the bus? panels on the roof of the garage of the warehouses, wherever we can get some. it's on the battery size, the battery itself, it's easy transfer of the batteries in and out. a universal standard, what battery is going to hold up the longest and after five years do we have to replace these batteries with other batteries. that is going to be major question when you go forward on this. it's going to be quiet electric buses oh -- on the outside but please relatively quickly find out if these buses rattle on the inside. that is still unacceptable, you know, to let buses rattle on the inside. thank you. good luck. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. do i have any other pun comment? -- public comment? seeing none public comment is closed. director reiskin, the green zones that mr. haley mentioned, do we have a program about where those wou

mr. gilberte. >> tom gilberte. numbers matter. i heard just recently that it's 6,000 uber lifts on the road at one time versus 35,000 uber on the road at some point. numbers matter. again, quality of life. do we want 6,000 more cars downtown? even if they're giving another government will take a nice profit or tax or, you know -- but do we want them? is that where we want to go? insurance, if a scooter with a helmet hits a person in a wheelchair or a little kid or an old folk, we get broken a whole lot easier. the uber lit insurance pattern, if there's no one in the car, they have a different set of insurance, what they'll pay. this is a billion dollar -- billions of dollars corporation. i'm sitting here thinking that if you had children and they were going to spend the rest of their life paralyzed, duh. and 6,000 or 40,000 or 30,000 cars are going to add more tension to drivers that are on the street. that includes the tourist drivers that don't know what they're doing. if you're driving in the city and you're making money in the

mr. gilberte. >> thank you. apologize for getting here late and missing the director's report.er on the ground reminds me of people laid out on the ground. it's just bad. coming here i asked one in front of the department of education and that's a narrow -- with the trees and planting there, that's a narrow walkway now. you throw a scooter in and it's bad. on saturday i was boarding the e-line at the 30 building and at the bottom of the ramp two scooter people were just leaving their scooters at the bottom of the ramp for the wheelchair to go up. i said i hope you're not leaving them here. yes, they did. it's a tough play. sidewalk walk, we don't require helmets to walk on the sidewalk, especially if you're in a wheelchair or a low but people who we are allowing to roll on the sidewalk require a helmet. so there's a mismash of danger here. civic center, i want to thank you for trying something with people in the elevators. i came out of civic center last wednesday. the person inside greeted me and outside the doors on the walkway not knowing very much about your -- urine, i'm w

[applause] gilbert: thank you very much, mr. ambassador. you upheld the irish tradition of great eloquence. as i am the historian of the club, and when the club needs someone to talk about its 110 year history, they come to me, and i am certainly honored to be in such august company this evening. over the course of our history, every president since theodore roosevelt has visited the club, either before he was president, while he was president, or after he was president, and often all three. presidential contenders often use the club's famous luncheon speakers program to address the press and through them the nation, as they lay out their ideas for their campaigns. john kennedy spoke to the club in january 1960, shortly after he announced his candidacy. that event took place in this very room, and he was probably standing right here. which kind of sends a little shiver down my spine, to think i will be quoting what he said in 1960. the new candidate struck some of the themes that ran through the campaign. he indirectly compared president ei