mr. gillespie. next speaker, please. phil ward, john loewsar, kevin carroll. >> good afternoon, mr. ward. >> good afternoon, my name is philip ward. i'm an attorney for yellow cab and luxor cab and have been involved as an attorney and advisory since 1989. in the report that supports this particular item, staff reached the conclusion based on various data that there was a significant unmet demand for taxi cab services in san francisco that cannot be met by the current size of the fleet. with my letter of august the 31st to the board and the director of transportation, we submitted additional data, current data from yellow cab and from luxor cab that independently updates supplements and coner firms the conclusions reached by staff in the report that supports this item. if anything, there is a huge unmet underestimated the size of the demand and if anything, the current data through june of this year demonstrates that that demand is literally huge and there are more taxi cabs needed in san francisco than even staff has identified in its report. our data shows that telephone orders ar