i want to be clear this is not just a tnc issue.rivate cars, delivery trucks, taxis, they all occupy the bike lane. i want to partner with those marine chants -- merchants. we need to find a way that accommodates them. there should never be a reason for a car or delivery truck to have to cross through a bike lane to access a curb. pedestrianses do not wear armor. bicycles do not wear armor. we are pedestrians on wheels. cars need to be next to cars. thank you for listening today. >> chairman peskin: thank you. let me just call a few mr. speaker cards. paul valdez, chris, jeremy and kelsey roader. >> commissioners, i'm a 33-year commuter in san francisco. thank you for taking our testimony. i like to urge the passage of this item, item eight. bimding alarms -- building alarms and curb cuts are useful things. when we are teaching kids how to ride bikes it would be bondsful if as they move -- wonderful if they see people riding bicycles in a relack laxed manner. -- relaxed manner. you may have noticed as you ride down valencia street,

this will be a big year for tnc and policies at the state level. you have expressed strong interest and leadership in pushing for the right policy framework around technology services. thank you for your leadership which is at a national scale given all of the different folks interested in this topic and looking at san francisco as a center of these types of issues. promoting staff and agency development is a continual process. we want to remain a workplace of excellence. we updated the mission, vision and values, implemented various training and coaching programs and ensured we have staff working groups to address topics of interest to the staff. improving communications is a top priority. we launched a communications plan which we will hopefully be able to bring a culminate of that will be a new website in 2018. we are excited about that. beyond that, 2018 will bring a new set of goals to continue the work that we are working on underway and we spoke about today, updating the strategic plan sets the next five years of priority for the prop k prog

one is out the tnc came out that did address those and raised a lot of the congestion information and that has recently come up. next up will be the regulatory framework document. and then there are -- i don't remember the exact number, but it is not an insignificant number of reports that are going to be quickly following dealing with accessibility for people with disabilities, safety, effect on transit, etc., and from those documents as those documents are coming out on policies, policy prescriptions where we have that ability, will fill in, to hopefully where we can regulate issues that are identified and regulate those issues. >> just a quick follow-up. so when the data is updated, will we have a sense of the emissions impact of those services here? >> warren, do you know -- i'm sorry, warren from the ta is one of the people heading up the work for the transportation. is that one of the -- >> i am warren logan from the transportation authority. just like john said, we have a coordinated series of studies to address a lot of the issues that you are bringing up. some of them are lit

to be displayed on the front and rear passenger side of the car's windshields along with this green tnchich is also required makes it so ride hail drivers can be easily identified so you don't accidentally jump into the wrong vehicle. however, it's not had to find raid hail drivers meeting even the minimum requirements uber or lyft (uber) how am i supposed oi know that if you don't have your trade dress in the back window you know you have to have it in the airport right front and back yup you don't have it (sorry i don't speak english) you don't speak english oh the logos yes oh because i don't want to get into it with the taxis, so it's kinda one of these things the story i always tell the second week i was doing this thing two taxis were getting into it with two of the lyfts are you uber or lygt where's your stickers. and while he's looking keep this in mind not only does he not have hid trade dress he is also has no license plates. so i aske him to put them in the window now how is anyone suppose to know who you are when you don't have stickers on your carthis driver was posted up i

our tnc today website and my street.com. to turn the data out to the public to make it easy to use. behind the scenes it is making the on-line allocation request form in 2018 to help sponsors and administering these grant requests. working in collaboration with agents to work together with support on rail yard and alternative boulevard study and rail plan sets up an important moment in the coming year for rail planning. this is intense interest on the part of a lot of folks to set up the next generation of rail improvements to fund what we have in the works particularly in the 101, bart in the south. for our city and county we are very much focused on ensuring the transbay terminal is the term us of high-speed rail to collaborate with santa chair are on the freeway moving forward and allows us to move across the bay to the east bay and tackle the transbay corridor that andy spoke about earlier the number one congested ling in the entire region. working with our agencies means the state,

to be displayed on the front and rear passenger side of the car's windshields along with this green tnco required makes it so ride hail drivers can be easily identified so you don't accidentally jump into the wrong vehicle. however, it's not had to find raid hail drivers meeting even the minimum requirements uber or lyft (uber) how am i supposed oi know that if you don't have your trade dress in the back window you know you have to have it in the airport right front and back yup you don't have it (sorry i don't speak english) you don't speak english oh the logos yes oh because i don't want to get into it with the taxis, so it's kinda one of these things the story i always tell the second week i was doing this thing two taxis were getting into it with two of the lyfts are you uber or lygt where's your stickers. and while he's looking keep this in mind not only does he not have hid trade dress he is also has no license plates. so i aske him to put them in the window now how is anyone suppose to know who you are when you don't have stickers on your carthis driver was posted up in the white

there was an open letter to city agencies about the concern on safety and traffic implications of how tncs and ride-hailing vehicles block lanes. in his letter the mayor called on mta and the companies like uber and lyft to work together on a pilot project. under the mayor's direction we had the meeting to determine how such a pilot could be developed and importantly how it could be implemented and evaluated. no decisions have been made about a pilot program yet. we have made progress on goals and how data can be shared. the goal is to eliminate stopping in transit lanes and bike lanes and eliminate double parking and impacts on bus lanes and crosswalks and areas of high pick up and drop-off. our initial hypothesis on the mta side was by promoting and enforcing the safe and reliable curb space we can increase public safety for all modes on the street. the city has not determined when, where or how many locations such a pilot might take place. we do know that consistent with instruction we've gotten clearly from this board it must be in an area where there's community support. we're conduct

to be displayed on the front and rear passenger side of the car's windshields along with this green tnc which is also required makes it so ride hail drivers can be easily identified so you don't accidentally jump into the wrong vehicle. however, it's not had to find raid hail drivers meeting even the minimum requirements uber or lyft (uber) how am i supposed oi know that if you don't have your trade dress in the back window you know you have to have it in the airport right front and back yup you don't have it (sorry i don't speak english) you don't speak english oh the logos yes oh because i don't want to get into it with the taxis, so it's kinda one of these things the story i always tell the second week i was doing this thing two taxis were getting into it with two of the lyfts are you uber or lygt where's your stickers. and while he's looking keep this in mind not only does he not have hid trade dress he is also has no license plates. so i aske him to put them in the window now how is anyone suppose to know who you are when you don't have stickers on your carthis driver was posted up

to be displayed on the front and rear passenger side of the car's windshields along with this green tncalso required makes it so ride hail drivers can be easily identified so you don't accidentally jump into the wrong vehicle. however, it's not had to find raid hail drivers meeting even the minimum requirements uber or lyft (uber) how am i supposed oi know that if you don't have your trade dress in the back window you know you have to have it in the airport right front and back yup you don't have it (sorry i don't speak english) you don't speak english oh the logos yes oh because i don't want to get into it with the taxis, so it's kinda one of these things the story i always tell the second week i was doing this thing two taxis were getting into it with two of the lyfts are you uber or lygt where's your stickers. and while he's looking keep this in mind not only does he not have hid trade dress he is also has no license plates. so i aske him to put them in the window now how is anyone suppose to know who you are when you don't have stickers on your carthis driver was posted up in the wh