Thank you. Concerning uber. Big gad in yahoo showing three Different Levels of taxis. Uber vehicles. Outrageously expensive as far as not accepting credit cards. What about the para transit cards that we get, would that be something that would be accepted. It also gives us a discount and i know several cab drivers whose lives and livelihood are being imperiled beyond is survival. So please bear that in mind like charles pointed out. I think charles, i know the vehicles, less and less. Thats all. The cards. Thank you. Really quickly to check in with anyone on the line have any questions or comments . Okay. Then we will go for a 10 minute break. Again i would like to thank our speaker today. I did not see a number next to these cards. Okay. Well take one more comment and then well go to break. My name is rue grapis i have been a cab driver for 40 years and im a member of the transit coordinating council. I have several questions for you, ms. Caitlin oneil. You said the drivers have some
Your interest in this. And i know that technology is totally changing the world, and impact just expect to go backwards when the wheel has been invented. But we have to make sure that things are equal when they move forward. Thank you, with that well be going into a 10 minute starting here shortly. Please take your seats. Thank you. All right. Next on our agenda we have item no. 7. Information item. Draft Building Blocks for accessible bicycle facilities. San francisco municipal transportationation, sf mta will present and draft set of guidelines for preserving and improving accessibility in protected bike way projects presentation by annette williams, Accessible Services manager, sf mta miriam sorelli, transportation planner, sf mta livable streets and sandra padilla. Thank you for making time on this agenda. My name is sandra padilla. Specifically my rule is to ensure that all sustain able street projects coming out of sf mta improve for people and seniors with disabilities. Today i
Not including that part of this life in a video about his womens rights record. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on q a, and to mark ten years of q a, were airing one program from each year starting dem 22nd at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Energy secretary ernest nooneys and his counterparts from mexico and canada met monday to discuss north Americas Energy needs. Following the meeting the three leaders signed a memorandum of understanding and spoke to reporters. Here are secretary mooneys remarks. [inaudible conversations] well, let me open things up and i have to say its been an enormous pleasure and very productive to have mr. Joaquin caldwell, from mexico, and mr. Rick ford from canada. It struck us alling a remarkable we have not met, ministers, in seven years. This is something we have every intention of changing to get into a more regular meeting schedule, and that has only been encouraged by the highly productive meeting that we have had. I might say that i think we als
Cincinnati, toledo, buffalo, and all across the midwest. There are literally almost a dozen. Its exciting work and its important work and its really focussed on kind of national and regional and local economic policy. Great. Im going to follow up with you again, steve, for a minute. Director rodriguez said that absent federal action, congressional action, we cannot do it all. So, with employmentbased visas, you cant create them or other types of visas. What strategies do you use to overcome those types of challenges . Sure. Make no mistake that the biggest economic boost would be a more sense kal and higher performing federal immigration policy that works for local economies. And maybe even as localized, clearly the challenges that we face in detroit are very different than long beach or new york city. And our skill sets and needs are very different. And probably one size fit all policy might not work as well, but absent that, were trying to do everything we can to take advantage of th
Regional and local economic policy. Great. Im going to follow up with you again, steve, for a minute. Director rodriguez said that absent federal action, congressional action, we cannot do it all. So, with employmentbased visas, you cant create them or other types of visas. What strategies do you use to overcome those types of challenges . Sure. Make no mistake that the biggest economic boost would be a more sense kal and higher performing federal immigration policy that works for local economies. And maybe even as localized, clearly the challenges that we face in detroit are very different than long beach or new york city. And our skill sets and needs are very different. And probably one size fit all policy might not work as well, but absent that, were trying to do everything we can to take advantage of the opportunities that we have. And frankly, a lot of that work would repair us well if some kind of Immigration Reform policy was passed. So what do we do . One is i mentioned Interna