Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the art and social change weve been on the edge after all were at the meeting of land and sea worldclass style it is the burn of blew jeans where the rock holds court over the harbor the citys Information Technology xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring patient state of at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house Senate Regional wearout system your our employees joy excessive salaries but working for the city and county of San Francisco give us employees the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the citys future but for considering a career with the city and county of san francisc mta and Parking Commission ms. Bloomer commissioner singh commissioner borden director heinecke director ramos director rubke mr. Chairman director we have quorum item 3 electronic devices. Any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. Set cell phones on vibrate, the vibration could cause an interruption in the proceedings. Please note that cells cause trefrnsz item 4 approval of the minutes and motion to all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. So okay under communication lets talk about a lot about of rearranging of the situation due to a closed session at a certain 7, 8, 9 ill proposing we go through the would hear from the introduction of new Unfinished Business and he is directors report for special recognition then we will postpone Public Comment and consent until after the call consent after that and item 12 then the closed session so something on a short break while we will do the closed session 10 or 15 minutes. Mr. Chairman item 12 and the consent calendar will be heard before the closed session general Public Comment the rest of the directors report will be heard after the closed session. Thank you. Directors please be advised that item 11 has an removed at the request of staff item 6 introduction of new or urban finished business by Board Members. Board. The election of board chair and having to the rules of order. Nomination for board chair. I nominate tom nolan. Elaborate on that a second. Im second that nomination any further. All in favor, say i. I. The is have it. So thank you is there a nomination for vice chair. Yes. I nominate chair Cheryl Brinkman to serve ill elaborate with you i think that weve all committed this things are approving at muni with the professionalism and the service were delivering to our customers not perfect but those of us on the board see it Getting Better and appreciate that there are a lot of people that desire the credit i cant see any reason to change the leadership i see many reasons to keep above you i wholeheartedly support the election. Nomination. All in favor, say i. I. Congratulations maam, chair this officially makes me a lame duck. If you want to give on openly speech okay and go ahead. I was part of meeting with the travel and tourism meeting took place in confronting o congresswoman and thanks to roberta and others pulling together 9 notes i dlashtd on the transbay and the speeches office has been briefed by director reiskin but was very, very supportive of what theyve asked at the meeting the head of golden gate parks someone is from the rec and park and someone from the Presidio Trust and the congresswoman asked us to talk about the transportation to and from the presidio they made that request im not not the right person but wanted to pass that on this is access to the presidio a big issue not just to people that work in the presidio but people around the city this is of concern to the congresswoman. Members of the board. Im sorry. Ill ask the Board Members to adjourn in memory of two individuals a cable car briefr or driver that died he lost his life struck by a modify he came to gary in 2014 and dedicated City Employee that is part of San Francisco cable car and franco a police have committed he passed away during surgery so thank you directors report. Item 7 directors report. Good afternoon director reiskin. Good afternoon Board Members i didnt get up and run because of election congratulations to both of you i said to give a special recognition myself id like to ask patricia if she would come forward after serving for 10 years with the sfmta patricia is moving on to bigger and Better Things actually moving to the School District sorry to lose her and happy her talents will be put to work on the School District but we wanted to take the opportunity to recognize patricia to the agency and the people of San Francisco she worked mostly in the streets decision a i 0 moved to the office of the chief of staff the founding leader of talent a division it is similar to what she is doing in the School District patricia has done a lot of things for the agency but in the last few years led the effort to implement the goals for the Strategic Plan about approving the Work Environment and Cultural Agency for all the folks folks to deliver on the 3 goals you know some shes been really the kind of person that folks from around the agency felt very comfortable to talk to a bounce idea and seek mentorship and generally because she was an open attitude and extremely knowledgeable about how the city works and the knowledge to come back by and very much can do attitude that is something people appreciate but shes easy going really can get things done a few of things shes done through the corroborate to improve hiring and Personnel Management it is critically important to how were efficient and Many Services brigitte people together to get things done no one is a great listener focused on building the riderships and trust and correlate within an agency but helping outside the to establish that we actually asked people to kind of make mimentsz on her and supportive an inspirational colleague honest and accurate assessment of and listens and celebrates successes and helps to brainstorm the strategic approaches we decided riccardo 0 wins the aware for she loves the Government Service and getting things done she does all that and did it really well, so we said to take the opportunity to pub recognize her for her years of service to wish her the best and office this certificate of appreciation clapping. on behalf of the board of directors thank you for your outstanding work i know youll be used in your industry. Thank you so much director reiskin as great to have you done here and thank you to the board for recognizing me today and thanks to my outstanding cheerleader for coming glad youre here im or ive cabin here under 10 years with 7 titles and 6 bosses and so many amazing opportunities my most memorable is working with the mta i dont think that is a Single Division that is greater in my first seven years i was in the division i want to give special attention to them and at the my time i had the pleasure of working with the engineers and planners to 2k3we78 confidence it San Francisco streets have been excellent and more recently in the staffs office through any management work had the great opportunity to work with folks without them not been able to accomplish what we did i want to mention tim and christen and on the incredible ann and chavez and i cant forgot the super transplanted people that helped us to move forward thank you for your hard work and denomination can i want to thank the mta the superintendant one thing ill knew theyll them what is on their minds and it helped me i want to say thanks for the Division Heads that worked with those folks one a mentor and also always tells me what is on her mind i want to say thank you to the team i worked with in the staffs office now the office of Talent Management lead by patricia who is an amazing leader and sophie and others what have joined us recently youre doing great work ill be cheering you on from affair as i move to the San Francisco unified School District as the director of the Talent Management im wiser for working at the sfmta thank you. Ill be cheering from down the street clapping. so mr. Chairman per your distribution on item 8 the Advisory Committee report mr. Wherever is not here in report but followup with the consent calendar the only item thats been removed from the consent calendar is 10. 3. So members a motion on the consent calendar motion to second. Any further discussion . All in favor, say i. I. The is have it. 10. 3. Approving the program for 5. 5 million for the fund from the Municipal Transportation Agency from the light rail project to the hybrid bus 5. 5 million of general fund set aside in fiscal year 2018, 2019 for the llp project the members of the office o good morning, mr. Straus as. We thought the general fund was flush here we go. inaudible when. Hold on to the microphone thank you. When prop b was passed it included the provision that the fund had flexibility to be used for capital or operating fund. What is happening with the general fund this year already underscores the value and the risk of the vat i pulled this item from the agenda because i want to caution you about using prop b fund capitol hill for Capital Projects including to date inaudible . Thank you. Members of the board its a pleasure number 3. Motion to approve second. Per discussion. All in favor, say i. I. The is have it. Down the road. We thought about in terms of how we have the system and prioritize the plans for the Strategic Plan is that how we appropriate the fund. Absolutely we may touch on it at the workshop but a part of Larger Development do i need to stop. laughter . As the Capital Budget and looking at the prop b revenues were currently targeting them towards early developing a program ton on the capital side but as we do the budget on the operating side well do it parallel and be mindful the fact the legislation of legislation the voter legislation gave us the flexibility should we want to recommend them on the operating side that will be factored into this next week starting with the workshop. Ms. Bloomer. And mr. Item 11 is off the just not u junked and 12 the Division Section to spent transit and 16th street and Church Street and bryant and it castro and third street to 7 in the westbound and eastbound subjecting t t r public works an approving the proposed modified project and various traffic modifications along the fillmore corridor. Mr. Chair the project manager for this mini will be talking about the item. Good afternoon. Good afternoon director. I was who will be joining me also assisting in the planning and outreach as was mentioned the realignment of the ongoing muni Forward Initiative that brilliance it up. Did you load it. Yes. Okay. The overall goal of the transit reliability and operation throughout the city the networking streets on the opposite projects were moving forward with again here is the map that pretty much everyone is aware of the 22 first name is currently experiences much congestion along and focuses the liability of mission and commercial corridor so the goal again is to inaudible all this improved inaudible . Outreach we have meetings often the inaudible on the corridor the meetings were held on the corridor thats where we have a wide variety of people in attendance and not only the meetings 25 hundred flyers with 10 thousand inaudible and also online we created an Online Survey for people to provide their input what they thought about the project and parking improvements not only a transit corridor but on the sides inaudible develop those theyre welcome inaudible the project will be a political approach to look at the transit and see what we can do to improve the impacts el especially on the safety part so from some or serving i have a summary on some of the summaries are here and maybe on the power point but almsly we asked about the transit only lane where people live and how they commute to the neighborhood their impacts on the projects like this and over bundy there was a transit only lane along the corridors that go through 80 percent of people inaudible on the survey inaudible also as i mentioned weve also have submitted ourn june of last year, we committed an application the application that the city submitted for federal funding with that, we received a variety of support letters if neighborhood organizations weve been working with as we made our way through the project so what are we are doing our proposal as we look at third street and again, the limits are 16th street between terrace and third street and currently it is two lanes westbound and third street two lanes going westbound direction and one eastbound our proposal to take one of the traffic lanes and convert it into the corridor in eastbound from shorts to bryant street physically narrower and unable to fit into both transit only lanes and be a commercial corridor if 0 approximately bryant streetcar towards third street it widen two transit only lanes in both directions so, now the consequences of this looking at the usage of 16th street between castro and 16th street two bike lanes were fast with the relocatef transit to those we dont have bike lanes only to shift the lanes if 16th street on the 17th street it will create the lanes continue mission and 17th street so mission fire station. Along the transit only lane were looking to update some of the traffic infrastructure fiber options and creating a series of the new traffic stops and were moving the transit to near side to the far side and working with the community we with got their feedback in the corridor and made adjustment to our plan this is just a snapshot of what it looks like it shows did transit lane in the commercial corridor and towards the bryant to 7th street and two transit only lanes were expecting improvements up to 25 percent along with improved safety within the corridors and also by having a more efficient system will be at this point, ill to thank my team members to bringing us where we are today and ann ive mentioned for the work hard and to others and theyre also with the community and j. J. R the support chair of loourtd and provided valuable input for this project inaudible thank you. Questions or comments director ramos. I had a quick question the area between church and bryant where we will not go with the westbouor space two dedicate lanes can you talk about that. We inaudible street wide. Uhhuh. And the corridor a high demand for input with the two transit only lanes and the parking within inaudible . Got it okay. No, i understand i wanted to make sure it was clear there is space we want to protect the parking okay. Thank you. Members of the public. Ms. Bloomer. Several members of the public who wish to address the board well swap out the microphone here well start with calling names . Real quick. Mute it. Mute it . Okay. Check, check. calling names . Good afternoon mr. Frank. Thank you board i appreciate your time im with the Church Association and wanted to express the concerns theyve provided me on Church Street stop traffic is stopped for the red lane and families cant get safely in and out of their driveways and mta zoning result 57 percent decrease in mere seconds compared to the 10 minute traffic con skating spaces will drive away tourist and for car shares is unfair for the public streets with all the road diets on santa fe and chavez and bayshore and future spreadsheets and masonic and the raising of i 2 the fruition and danger is reached Epic Proportions pushing the families and commuters is no solution so we propose we really think big long term San Francisco deserves a visionary regional acholic beverage approach we think we need citywide underground to accommodate the density and bring it into the future put our energy into incentive based positive instead of negative carrageenans we can do this thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Thank you Peter Straus Puc importantly the transit rider were very much in support of this project and urge to approve it today, the dpranz with the best invasions weve started to implement and were glad to see them expanded to the location in 60 years we might think the subway on 16th street im pleased part of proposal in the center the streets fiscal along the curbs and the center were better for reliability and urge the agency to be bold and visiony to look for center lanes and late night want to lastly want to expedite this project especially the electrification i understand is stretching out certainly years we wanted to see this fast tracked and in exclusion to support this is the sort of thing we want to see thank you. Thank you, mr. Straus. Christopher calling names the last person to fill in a speaker. Im christophers ill special hr o n e s thank you. And ill also speaking on behavior the San Francisco rider a planner and a residents of San Francisco and i ride the 22 bus i want to briefly state my support for the project prior to moving here to selfSan Francisco i worked on similar transit prioritization projects in new york city and brooklyn ive heard about the benefits theyre real real benefits in brooklyn and here the muni estimates 5 minute costs savings in the corridor for rider that didnt maintained seem like much efficiently the borders nerk a real differences in peoples lives and the safety benefits in the corridor that were briefly alluded to make this a worthwhile and important project and want to reiterate my support thank you for the opportunity. calling names the last person to address. Thank you, president and commissioners mark taxi Works Alliance the sfmta generally supports the transit lanes is not taken examined overseeing changes because we were not aware this will will be coming up now but i confidentially speak for the board to say we do support those transit lanes, however, i have a few comments one of which is under the resolution i believe on the agenda although the description of the lines describes them as taxi transit lanes the discrepancy in the Resolution Says establish buses only lanes and therefore, for the purpose of clarification important to note those would and should also include taxis so the other comments i have is that left turns are going to be restricted under this plan along 16th street and as you did with the changes but made on Mission Street i approved the changes but also committed to look at expectations for taxis for left turns that make that commitment along 16th street and really take into account those intrshthsz when taxis cant make left turns especially on the long blocks we have to take people a long ways out of their ways and costs the passersby more money with the levels of traffic, you know, it really would be helpful to have those left turns and the last thing ill say is that i simple emphasize those who you are concerned with the traffic and not look far to see what is probable the main trust the tmcs. We have one more speaker card. We have one more too. Please do. I already sent a letter to the board so im not going to read my letter ill read a letter from someone that couldnt have made it so, please know im going to read one of my condominiums with the development in the pipeline with the warriors stadium not been an adequate independent traffic study for the cumulative impacts for this project it is a dangers plan that needs serious consideration for a multitude of reasons diane i live in the Outer Mission and need muni and my car to get around town especially with the in increment weather i sometimes ride a bicycle recreation usually on a bike path but im beyond any acknowledge so street changes were out of traffic like the bus lanes and the major corridors for 16th street and van ness and geary boulevard will limit any mobility rather than promote my use of busy appreciate and utility lists the bus lanes proposed bus lanes from my prospective are ageless and they propose new design to make room for private buses alongside accident curve side lanes by physically challenged commuter most of older or less reading passersby prefer the curve side feel safer and much easier than the center lanes if youll help to move the bus i might put them in the middle or so otherwise the other people keep them curb e curve side. David schneider is the last person. Good afternoon. Congratulations on the location past the aspirin. Regarding this particular item i think there might be a way of achieving the battle between public yours and cars so therefore i wonder if any study that is all has been given to reengineering 16th street and 17th street streets as one way to accommodate the way of traffic flow for private automobiles i on a balance might be a good thing in this city sure im part of Public Transportation im a taxi driver i appreciate those red carpeted lanes for the cabs to help us get through i appreciate getting into handicap zones with the decalifornias to pick up those folks i think in order to strike a balance to Public Traffic and cars and muni and so forth instead of just a super carpenter lane for great no one else o congestion make 16th street and 17th street to flow in one direction. Thank you very much. Anyone else . Who worries about to address the board the pleasure of the board. Director first. So i had a question for staff about the one of the members of the public brought it up in the center the broadly during the outreach weve seen the Disability Community i realize it is good to support the center lane but the people with disabilities it is challenging to center broadly islands. Yes. My apologies i failed to mention we provided a presentation to mac so the presenter couldnt be here today great. We get the details in terms of all the stuff were working with that and anyone else in the community you outreach to theyre here to talk about their concerns so thank you to the member of the public for bringing that up. Ill be supportive of this item he commend staff for the good work and the tuesday to the public for all the comments i feel the transit only lanes are needed to accommodate the lanes by so many yours in the city and people often say things like it only saves 5 minutes so the transit rider that 5 minutes twice a day 5 times a week turns into quibble an hour when but multiply that by the amount of people only a third, that is like 5 hundred hours per day the stuff adds up and the constraint as a aide we is it have to doing everything we can with the limited resources this is one of the ways to speed traffic and save money as we run the system when we get our coaches in the dedicated lanes it is less accidents and in the long run everyone from my prospective wins thats a saves put into the system to benefit everyone regarding the safety concerns i appreciate the vigilance that staff has shown as the director and at member of the public brought up the reason why i permanent like the center lanes is because you never have to cross the length of the street at one time if youre trying to go the opposite direction youve got to get to the other side of the street thats cross the whole thing but in any one direction only the middle i think outside the box is welcomed for a lot of folks and indeed also the transit only lanes actually calm traffic and make it safer by the way, less cars traveling in those option lanes with respect to the people backing out of their driveway i live on judah train goes by on a dedicate rightofway during the peak times my neighbors and i have to back up into a lane the only lane there are cars that can travel along and if not a train coming in the other lanes if youre not careful but that corridor is a safer corridor because of the traffic calming nature the dedicated lanes and the way it constrains the speed sulfate as a result of so staff did a grook i want to see it go further out the 22 is an important line of connectivity a lot of workers that dont think that line to get the jobs up there it is painful to ride it line because it is so slow it is my great pleasure to make a motion to approve this. Motion is there a second. I just wanted to be clear for the record to mr. Director rubkeers points the red carpet lanes will be open to the taxicabs im not sure we need to change the legislation but as long as were clear on the outstanding their clear and that will address mr. God bless berries point but make sure were there. Shawn kennedy and, yes, that is correct and. Thank you to staff the outreach was quite exhaust and i think you got a lot of good feedback and appreciate the corridor data in pdf which stops should go and what one stays and a as director ramos pointed out for people not to use their cars every single trip and we need to move more people a lot more development with more people and jobs the only way to move the people with the 16th street to move them on transit make it safer for walking and biking on the biking note id like to point out were moving the bike lane off 16th street on the 17th street it is an awkward connection between the Railroad Tracks and the uc building im not the in some note in the bike Program Going forward thats an awful contribution e transition it is challenging to make the transition across the Railroad Tracks but excited to support this. So we have a motion and all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Thank you. Now well go into closed session i mentioned earlier it is a 10 or 15 minute break and the room has to be prepared for that. Mr. Chairman the discussion to vote whether or not to conduct a closed session. Second. Any further discussion. Theyd. Decorations please be advised no discussion announcem session the directors met to discuss first of all, well wait for sfgov good the brooshgz met in closed session to talk about the jack case for the recolleagues of t line the board of directors voted to settle the jack case and no discussion of anticipated litigation directors an appropriate for the disclose or not disclose. Move not to disclose the information. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. Directors moving back up through the agenda back to item 8 an opportunity for the members of the public to talk about the matters not on to todays agenda calling names . Yes. Good afternoon my name is Robert Miller i hold a medallion that was grand to me and my colleagues in july of 2012 i work at yellow cab it was a great dune the purpose of the medallion was for granting the part time explanations to have experienced drivers out there at peek Times Driving a cab or the limited to 90 hours a week that purpose is kind of gone cue to the change Playing Field with the tmcs wiping out the fleet business is sitting on the lot at any given time the other purpose for the medallions to regard are experienced cab drivers for some reason didnt get a fulltime medallion and didnt want to purchase one at my age 63 purposing was was not on the horizon im still an experienced cab driver since 1979 i need the medallion director ran has determined the programs purposes that is gone, however, i still deserve the medallion and like to keep it and director reiskin to perhaps confer within director rahaim and see if you will reverse your decision and have the board consider it we didnt have much in the way of hearing on this of director rahaim he made the decision and we had discussion afterwards id like to see the decision restored i need the money nine hundred bucks a month thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Good morning. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your listening ive been here before on s 23 im robert freed beggar driven since 1979 like my friend bob miller a medallion and varix medical care and he rentcontrolled part time i come home on the 22 at 11 and 12 oclock at night im 66 this year you saved my life when i gave me that medallion these companies were lobbying me and i never believed a system like this if you got everything and a few worked i changed that ive told her this story is a great story the mta gave us those s medallions and out of blew your articulating them away of us ive driven people for a long, long time in this city none of my passengers have been injured im good at what i do im limit 10 hours on the operating tackle i have to go up there in a couple of weeks well not survive and seems like kate made this decision because of things we have no control i have to go to the companies not take it on your own they broke the rules i apologize but we shouldnt be punished we cant go back to being gate drivers i know we id like to take this o time if i say the right word before im dead he wish you change for us thank you. Thank you calling names . Hello good afternoon. Some of this will be represent tush im in support of medallion the decision to take away the s medallion is a california lose had you midmarket and useful it we were issued because of merit now all of a sudden after driving four years nowhere else it gains along with the drastic loss of t n t competition the loss is 10,000 a year well be completely crushing to our income at our age is it impossible to work a a drastically increased amount to make up for that the income one of my passengers i was telling about this story likened it to throwing salt on open wound the Taxi Companies support it and the large Taxi Companies support it were 60 percent of fleet it is difficult to see how the s medallion will hurt anything wild a public forum some kind of a public forum and i dont know how that works in support of this issue. Thank you tech sf. calling names and then joe. Hello my name is ed, i want to say thank you very much for this s Medallion Program this what was created to help the driefrdz that have been driving thirty plus years it is the great work at yellow came back, we get 8 days out of thirty that supplement our income and serving the public for thirty years and thirty plus years i want to say that it is great to have this program and i hope that either the board will look at continuing the program or kate can be help to look at it further in a dive way that will enable us to serve the public and be cab drivers thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Mr. Schneider. Again once again belated afternoon may not for obvious permit holders if i understand right to asset manner for a hearing on the sfmta agenda two people can do that officially one is that director of transportation and the other is the City Attorney i think certainly hell correct me in any instance, the director of transportation id like to formally request that the interest be a full review the s permit program and considering taxi distributors torres decision to revoke that you can currently dba go back to the legislative history to see what the s permits were created nothing precludes you from considering operating realities right now and perhaps the chief operating reality right now is that if this program is killed off for seats one and thirty from the professional senior drivers the quality of service to the taxi driving public will be coo dwe allowed do you want that chair is man set this up for thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. My name is joe im with the green cab have a s medallion it makes no sense doing away with taking any taxis over the street the s medallions wall were doing is glow a tahoe take off experienced drivers i dont know how many will stay in the industry and earner to money now the doing away with the medallions means were decreasing the amount of cabs on the street and giving uber and lyft the opportunity for more cab takes jobs fewer cabs and push them towards the right share of services im not normally a paranoid individual but im wondering in the mta is trying to do away with the cab industry firstrate cab takers if youre anything in the 8 thousand series and the s medallions that is exactly what youre doing your sdainl the industry San Francisco has been a leader requiring the taxis they lower the Carbon Footprint in favor of ride Share Services that closing the streets with the type of vehicle they used to derivative the city can regulate not choosing to San Francisco as retreated from their goals and perhaps scrape the cab industry in 1990 the each one taxi omitted 59 tons of Green House Gas emissions and the average taxi has half as much thirty times your time is up. calling names . Again director nolan and members of the board im greening i was here two weeks ago the idea of taking away s medallions which is a miss not only s medallions the document we signed when those were handed out single operators taxi medallions to be a single driver as the name applies is single operators you can operate thirty hours a week, 5, 8 hour shifts or up to 90 hours a week, 6, 15 hour shifts the name shouldnt be single operate senior operator we feel special operators were special people ive been driving a taxi for 35 years my consumers are near may age they call me their friends not just consumers at the least this program of the s medallion is part of the standard for other 12 years this is isnt right to 0 with benefits from the change there is a lyft for many years then the lyft created we had a lyft every working driver was on the list in the exact order and created prop k well according to this printout from the website today, there were over 3 thousand people on the list in 2011 so they aggressively weighed those people out no cars to drive and they were the medallions now forget it leave the medallions with the people that run them and go on from there when their next needed thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Thank you, again mark speaking for the San Francisco taxicab alliance in support of s Medallion Program and just to speak personally i have a regular medallion ive been like overseeing drivers been a driver for more than thirty years about 5 years ago i was awarded a widen fall of 200,000 when they made the male not paid for worth it hundred and 50,000 minus the mta cut my fellow drivers with the same or better experience have the s medallions find those about to be pulled out from there them wheres the fairness in that i believe those medallions serve a good public purpose there are times that every single one of those cabs is needed because theyre only on the street a number of limit hours theyre not out there competing against you know other cabs and other drivers at the slowest times i can also is on behalf of green cab where i work that these medallions allow for flexible scheduling of drivers i dont know how other Companies Work if an s medallion or green cab want to work a 8 or 6 hour shift we craft other shifts around that because they dont have to be on the street all the time so it really allows for a lot of flexibility it is why companies are still paying s medallion holders inform their medallions and why other companies and most as been said the larger keypads most of smaller Companies Support the continuation of is