also, uber and the other tnc's cannot be discerned from any other private car as we've already found out, you can buy the markings of an uber or a lift vehicle and put it in your car and thereby try to get around the rules. tnc drivers are not trained, i know this for a fact, they're not trained, the only training they do have is how to operate the app, that's training they're not trained to drive and negotiate through the cities of san francisco or anywhere else they operate, the tnc's are impacting our san francisco traffic, they're making taxi fares higher for the people who do still use taxis because we have to drive in the congestion where we're out numbered by 8 to 1 and this is counter to the city of san francisco's goal for traffic reduction. all the work that you all do to try to reduce traffic congestion, you undermine it by giving any sort of preference to uber and lift. please do not let the tnc's have any preferabler treatment to market street or any of our major corridors and i also ask that you enforce the muni and taxi zones because i'm having to negotiate around priva

the success of this project is in the education and the enforcement and allowing is tnc exemption as one company has lobbied for will make the project practically unenforceable and it is critical on any driver on market street be regulated, accountable and receive proper education and we thank you for your support in moving this critical and long awaited project forward. we've been waiting for this for decades. thank you. >> ( calling speaker names ). >> thank you, good evening, my name is ahwani air ra i'm from taxi alliance i'm here to support the bicycle coalition and walk sf. i think it's very important you guys are trying to make the market street safer and i really support that. i think the safer market street zone should be a little bigger. i mean, there's a loot of accidents happening on market and van ness that's important too and all the way to market and drum in front of like [inaudible] that whole area, so it's a good idea but it should be a little bigger because there's a lot of traffic on market everywhere, not just between 8th and 3rd. thank you. >> thank you, sir, next

should focus on the policy issues the two main issues are these if we expand the exemption to allow the tnc's we will have an unknown number of car and is that will defeat the very safety and ancillary transit goals of this project and number two, as many people have stated very well, it creates enforcement issues that i just done see a great solution to with that, mr. nolan and thank you for your recognition of my personal work on this and also i'll recognize my colleague, cheryl brinkman for her work on this, i would like to move the item as it is. >> is there a second? >> i'll second it. >> before we vote, last eve nij i i talk today director ramos would couldn't be here, he's on a business commitment, he wanted me to express his enthusiastic support on the proposal as is, and i appreciate the staff work, the huge amount of outreach that's going into this so i will support it as well, we have a motion and a second, a ul in favor, say aye. >> aye. opposed? no. the motion passes. [applause]. >> chairman, moving on, item 13, adopting ceqa find x for the balboa park station area plan, amending

sorry, encouraging the tnc companies will just encourage reducing the working conditions back to the 1900's where the drivers had to own their own vehicles own their own insurance and canter covered by workman's comp, that's not the san francisco way we want to make sure the drivers are covered no matter what company they work for and the only thing that is shared by these transportation network companies, the thing that's shared is the risk and the public safety. they're not sharing their [inaudible]. thank you. >> okay, thank you. >> next speaker , please. >> ( calling speaker names ). >> good afternoon, nicole fer rar ra with walk san francisco i want to thank the mta for putting forward this project, as you all know, market street is one of the 6% of street that is accounts for over 60% of severe and fatal injuries in san francisco for pedestrian and is the market street project will use quick low cost effective treatments to get to those most dangerous traffic behaviors that lead to people losing their lives losing their limbs in san francisco so walk sf fully supports these feb

smith. >> good afternoon, commissioners, as far as making the turns on allows the tnc's to do that >> these are about thing that is are not on the agenda. >> i thought we could just come up. >> mr. chairman that's the last person who turned in a speaker card to address you on this matter. >> mover on to con sen calendar, mr. chairman, these ie tens are considered routine unless a member of the public, a member of the board wishes to have an item severed and considered separately, please be aware that several of the traffic modifications under 10.2 have been severed as follows 10.2n which has to do with no left turn on 20th street 10.2r and s concerning the establishment of a bus zone on lincoln way and then 10.2t regarding various tow away zones nr the vicinity of oak and stel and laguna and that is it as far as your consent calendar goes. >> so members, is there a motion to approve the consent calendar with the exception of -- >> i'm sorry, 10. .3f as well has been severed. >> i guess we'll just approve the one that is were not severed. >> a motion to approve those not severed? >> se

let you know, we're add tog the headaches we have to deal with out there every day especially with the tnc's parking and the taxis. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. anyone else? >> ( calling speaker name ). >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, commissioner tom, executive director of [inaudible] here to speak in favor of this item and a along with the others, 10.3, these are all a related set of items if anybody have been to the gym that i should be more often, it's missing a sidewalk on 9th street, so it is now one way, the sidewalk is gone, there's a huge messy intersection at division and 9th so this project will restore that two-way traffic, it's going to do some curb extensions to shorten intersections at that intersection it's going to provide buffered bike lanes in what's turned out to be a good cycle route and wi hope you will continue those cycling all the way to fourth street and beyond because more and more resident ares moving down there, more and more businesses are moving down there and the pedestrian infrastruck which you are is terrible, we're supportive o*f this proje

the tom line. >> i showed apple but you leak tnc bank and that general no material toes, though, with all of theoversy with the admission switches you're sticking with gm. is it because it is cheap? >> it is that you can say it has always been cheap but starting to push issues behind ceo doing a great job of trying to address those issues. in addition to that that's why stock is as cheap as it is because so much of it is based into the company's share price giving no consideration for perhaps maybe that more rear-view mirror item than it was forward looking. in addition to that it pays four and a half to had.6 dividend yield and committed to keeping but raising it. that is a plus that allows investor have a handsome coupon treated for fairly. >> i agree with you she's done a really good job and stuck with it and tried to stay poses. you're to overweighed equities, european equity i was going to you people are nervous about the stock market the second half the of the year but staying overweight and pushing equities through 2015? >> we are, one is, of course, the fact that there's no alternative.