for the taxi industry is that right now there is a battle waging between the taxi industry and the tncks and also among the tncs themselves, over driver supply. the magic of this mode is coming down to driver supply. if you don't have the drivers, you can't get the vehicles out onto the streets and the taxi industry, it's the wheelchair-accessible vehicles that suffer first, because a taxi driver, if given a choice is always going to choose a vehicle that is easier to drive; that is less mechanically prone to problems, and that doesn't cost as much to refuel and that isn't required to be in service to people who take a particularly long time to be able to service. there may be personal motivations and dedication we see that in a lot of our wheel-chair accessible taxi drivers, but as a purely economic proposition, it just doesn't pan out. so if you don't have enough drivers, then your wheelchair-accessible fleet gets left behind in the parking lot and that is exactly what happened. in fact, conditions are such that the ramp medallions that companies have held have been given back to us an

you have heard the indications, the evidence that these tncks, they are not accessible through their communications, their vehicles do not provide universal service. they are public accommodations, but somehow, that has been overlooked by cpuc. they should have been accessible from the beginning. somehow nobody in this city is able to call attention to that or has mentioned that. the mayor is silent about the lack of accessibility. the city attorney doesn't mention it in interviews, comments about tncs. the president of the board of supervisors says nothing. the two supervisors who are mtc commissioners and ostensibly knowledge about transportation, are silent, the rest of the supervisors are silent. what is evident and obvious is lost on these public officials. a major public interest law firm, disability rights advocate is seeking instances now of people who are denied service. the very fact thater that open in public says there is a problem and yet the mayor is silent and these other officials. now this is listed as an information item, but you still individually could call and sa