reisking's statement about being on the corner of vaness and what? one of the greatest problems in the industry is which corner are you talking about and how is a taxi going to be on the southwest corner when he doesn't know which corner the passenger is on? so it's a little more complicated than you think, but the main thing is you have to allow us to take credit cards and i would suggest that mr. heinicke look into it isn't just a pilot program before you approve all the apps so that we could have a program just for advanced calls that we could accept, credit cards, and start fighting fire with fire because that is where the success is. thank you. (applause) >> next speaker please. >> (calling names) >> my point about the subject is that i have been calling for a central dispatch for 20 years now and finally something is happening in that regard. i am all for a citywide taxi app, the people who showed us that this works is uber cab and so on and so forth, they have been doing it for years but there is one requirement there should be a fee when they

about the construction plans in north beach and when my constituents learned about this -- director reisk and many other staff from the mta met numerous times to hear concerns raised between last summer and the last few weeks. and to recap the sfmta began considering a number of alternatives to the columbus avenue extraction, that were raised by my office and the community. and presented four options at a community meeting last november. the pagota optioned was welcomed by most attendees, as well as leaving the tbms in the ground north of the chinatown station. i want to thank the sfmta staff for studying the option we're looking at today and presenting it an alternative. the board directed its staff to pursue the pagota a option. first the pagota theater option is far less disruptive to the community. secondly, we will be tearing down a 15 plus-year blighted eyesore that the neighborhood has wanted to move forward for many, many years and thirdly, this is an option that leaves open the possibility of extending the central subway to north beach and beyond. now part of the reason why we ha