service did not in must way serve it it only protects larger services the question the department the sf mta says that the failure of companies to meet even though service goals that the consumer dispatchers called for services that required is caused the increase of the serviced as lyft and uber it is a different business model there's equivalence but the conveniences offered by the serviced we should stamp out the conditional model it takes time to adapt 1107 forces all too much infrastructure on a very xetsdz base it protects larger organizations to the detriment of smaller organizations i'd like to have mr. phillip president of the sf american taxi share on what we're trying to meet demands of section 1107. >> hi commissioners we had numerous complaints from medallion holders that tried to move to our company and they were discouraged by sfmta staff to not to come to our company to go to another company we feel that that probably it is one of the reasons we'll not be able to grow as fast our drivers independent contractors and some of them you know don't take calls only prepared to work

we mean, sf mta has done a pretty poor job the last decade of hiring and training enough operators to keep up with attrition. because of that, 6 months ago, we were only operating about 93% of our daily scheduled service. you know, 93% is sounds like an a if you don't know about transit in general, but on a reality 93% is horrible. it's semi embarrassment. if you look at what that means to a daily customer, that's about 30-400 trips a day that we have not put out on the streets because we didn't have enough operators. what we are focusing on operator hiring and training. i'm super happy to report that last month, we have met our standard which is 98.5% service delivery everyday. we have a full compliment of operators now which has loud us allowed us to improve in our service. that's exciting stuff. service levels same thing, we want to match transit service with demand allowing that corridor and we have not been able to meet that with budgetary and staffing resource. our bus fleet averages about 14 years of age which is old. our fleet is not that much better. with the work of the boar

transportation planner at the transportation authority as a background some people often have not heard of the sf mta agency we have a role in the planning and funding of transportation we serve as the counties fields task action we administer prop k the we're up to one hundred million dollars a year to fund the transportation improvements by the voters and we coordinate san francisco with the rest of the region and we report to the board of supervisors as our board so it is really in that role we were asked by supervisor wiener to come in and play the transportation role with this process with ben and jocelyn with the stakeholders so. >> can it interject supervisor wiener walked in do you want him to go go ahead of you. >> why. >> thanks for being here thank you sorry i wasn't here earlier you guys are started. >> we're efficient. >> we were at the mta board earlier that is great we're not just putting out a report and let it collect dust open the shelf but making sure that all the decision making bodies especially the transit agencies understand what the representations are so you know we as you kn

sf mta is favoring a highly and illegal fashion the.com community at mission bay over -- seniors and low income who use the health services and general. to add insult to injury, san francisco health department staff have gone on record that there is a parking crisis at general cutting the 33 lean to general will exacerbate general's parking crisis. all of this at a time when san francisco general hospital is under going an unprecedented expansion. why not support that expansion by keeping the service lines including for all city san franciscans. thank you. >> thank you, next we have jerry grace. >> good afternoon, everyone. we talk about the buses. there is a question and i really don't understand this. it really surprises me san francisco is changing and i wasn't surprised by this. i wonder about the 26 bus, he didn't say anything about 26 bus or 18 bus. he never said anything about 74 bus or towards the bart station on 29 bus. he never said none of those bus. he never said nothing about those buses yes, it's more crowded on that buses too, but later the nighttime i don't know what