pilpal. next speaker, please. >> our last speaker is barry corngold. >> hi. i'm barry corngold. i've been driving a cab in this city since 1987. getting a medallion, earning a medallion used to be a reason for people to stay in the industry, and so some of your best cab drivers became medallion holders. you guys funded your budget, some $70 million off the backs of taxi drivers who then had to buy their medallions, basically giving up whatever extra income they would get by getting their medallion after a 15-year wait. now something like 90 of those drivers have had to default on their loans. you've waived their fees, rightly so because they're not making any money, but now, it's somehow devalued our medallions, where you feel like you can makeup for your short comings by charging us more. and this has become a minimum wage job or less. it's very hard to make it, and very frustrating, when we're surrounded by what used to be illegal gypsy cabs. now they're considered ethical entrepreneur. you're making special stands for them. why don't you charge people more, fine people more f

. >> david pilpal. >> david pillpal. i did not hear in this discussion about coordination with caltrans. the intersection of 8th and bryant is a major on ramp for i-80 and the solving it, so again, i oppose the parking removal that's proposed for this project. >> hi. i'm here to offer my support for the 8th street project with a giant caveat pointed at director ramos. i've been at several of these meetings where you've asked director reiskin why don't we have protected intersections? why don't we paint bike lanes through intersections so people know they can expect bicyclists to be in that space? and in fact, this great staff created designs for this project that included protected bike lanes. i'd like to show you what it looks like when the protected intersection, and how it's proposed today, and how much less safe you would feel as a bicycle rider. so if i could use the overhead. so this is the protected design for brannan at 8th. you see that little curb area that would keep highway minded vehicles from clipping a bic