supervisor haney, any questions from miss toran? because i know we have a lot of public comment. >> supervisor safai: can i make one last comment? >> chair peskin: and i'm going to have to find a substitute for me because i have to leave in 28 minutes. >> supervisor safai: i have three minutes. you brought up price predictablity. i think it's not the airport in general, but it's a good conversation to have. it's one of those aspects that makes the taxi market less competitive, but also, it's the knowledge of which -- accessibility, so if you're in a more remote location, and you have the ability to track when and where you're going to be picked up, that's an asset. i just wanted to point that out. i know there's within some attempts in the past, like flywheel and all that, but if we're going to make an attempt and encourage this industry to thrive, there has to be a real step to ensure that it's not just price predictability, but it's accessibility. >> yeah. and i agree, getting on an app would be the first step. we have flywheel, b

miss toran, come back up. >> and that was great. we would like to look to new york as a model we can use. >> chair peskin: thank you for that. i really appreciated seeing it at a global level. in your presentation, you had indicated that you had reduced fees to the industry by a little over $10 million, $10.2 million. are you contemplating for the coming year any reduction or waiver of fees? >> not for this budget cycle. we reduced it for the last budget cycle, and we reduced the post-k medallion renewal by 50%. >> chair peskin: thank you for that answer. and in the area of what i call price predictability -- by the way, i will say for the record i do not have an uber or lyft application on my phone, and i have never been in an uber or lyft or sidecar or wyngs -- i think sidecar is no more. but i think predictability is part of what motivates users. i will tell you i have sat in the back of a taxi cab as my heart rate continued to increase from $38 to $42, and the taxi driver was getting happier with the increase. if there's some wa

next speaker is miss toran. >> chair peskin: kate toran, thank you. >> my name is kate toran, and i want to thank sfmta for the implementation of these new taxi rules. and i'm here today to report on the -- our progress related to our new taxi rules at s.f.o. which were implemented on february 1. and before doing that, i'm just going to give some background just to make sure we all have the same context. okay. i want to start off with the important role of the taxi industry? the taxi industry has a lot of pride and has been part of our paratransit program for many years. it's actually been part of paratransit since 1981. we've had wheelchair accessible ramp taxi service since 1994. taxis provide the only level of on-demand service where you can have a street hail. there are a higher level of safety in the taxi industry. drug and alcohol checks, background checks. our background investigators review and investigate every sing single complaint that comes in through 311. we have professional drivers. we're proud of our clean air fleet. we have 95% clean air vehicles at this time, and taxis

what is sfmta's response. >> hi, kate toran. yeah, this is something we've heard as well.d the price tag on that is $161 million. and as i mentioned earlier at the start of the presentation, earlier on in the presentation, that in the medallion sale program, most of the money went back into the taxi industry, so so you can understand the money flow. [interjections] >> please allow her to speak. >> when a medallion was surrendered for consideration, that means that the individuals pre- -- >> we understand you disagree, but -- you can thumb's down, that's fine. >> so the medallion holder, the pre-k holder or post k holder was able to surrender for consideration. the consideration was $200,000, so when that transaction happened, the holder of that program, they netted the $200,000 and the mta received 50,000 out of that. so most of the money that was generated through the medallion sale program went back into the taxi industry. $110 million. so it's not like there is a pool of money available. and these are very challenging tradeoffs. i wish i had a magic wand. i understand t

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