Program that the longtime drivers, not the medallion holders, the drivers of the cabs other than the me doll i dont medallion holders will be left out of the deal. I suggest that you reissue those ramp taxi permits as they get turned in by the medallion holders to these longtime drivers. In a manner very similar to what you do with the s permits. This would be issued to drivers on a temporary basis who would then turn around and make their deal with the Cab Companies. Issuing the permits to these experienced and longtime drivers would serve to keep them involved and would reward their many long years of commitment. Lastly, the proposed changes are an opportunity for you to rebrand the ramp taxis. I suggest you start calling them ramp and bike taxis because these large vehicles are bike friendly and can easily hold two bicycles without taking off the wheels. That way you could recognize an expanded role for ramp taxis going forward. Thank you. Thank you, mr. [speaker not understood]. Ne
You how this all works that company, most of those 41 different sites in the world are leaving this disk under the ground. All were asking in north beach, to not interfere with the successful neighborhood church, residents, businesses adjacent to pagoda palace, is to write into the lease with the pagoda the possibility, should it become possible to do this in the future when the machines arrive in north beach, to leave this disk, not the train 300 feet long, but just this 15foot disk in the ground. And thats how its done in many places around the world. Thank you so much. Thank you, mr. Bruno. Anyone else care to address the board on this subject . If not, okay. Members, questions, comments . Let me speak to that, mr. Reiskin, the comment about leaving the disk in. Is this something we looked at, considered, would that be a viable possibility to try to build Something Like that into it at this point . The answer is yes and yes, it is something that we looked at i believe originally as
Sometime now. Ive addressed that with sfo people on how to handle that. Whats happening is now that we have the 8,000 series and these other vehicles that are being added and i believe youre probably going to see another spike in hybrid medallions, but you do need incentivized drivers who dont have a medallion down the road for them to Still Service that very important community. Ive given a suggestion previously, and im going to bring it again to you. You need to work with the para Transit Coordinating Council and the broker to subsidize the time and gas that is aped expended by the drivers who actually have a good heart. But its not economically feasible to do so because the medallion the price of the medallion holders are being paid by the Companies Wont be there for ever. Thats going to sunset like Everything Else is sunseting. And i believe if we subsidize those rides 5, 7 a ride, so, theres work being done on the front side and backside that is not being compensated for and with
Doesnt preclude the issuance of ramp taxi medallions to drivers in the future, its certainly, certainly points away from it. And i would urge you very strongly. Leave this door of opportunity open for drivers. Too many other doors have been closed to them. I also have to say that i oppose further leasing of medallions. I know that its in the agencys financial interest to do this, but i think that the agencys financial interests too often have been trumping the interest of drivers, the interest of companies and the interest of the public. So, id urge you not to do that. And lastly, let me just say on behalf of green cab that if medallions are issued to Cab Companies, these ramp medallionses, i hope theyre not. But if that happens, a reading of this legislation tells me that green cab will be forever precluded from getting any of them because we dont have any ramp medallions right now. Were fairly young company. We havent taken any in, i can explain various reasons for that. But the way
On our waiting list. So, whats going to happen is theyll all have the opportunity to purchase a half price medallion at 102,000 each. But when that occurs, those ramp medallions will come back to the city. And what we want to do is allow those grant medallions to keep operating to service our wheelchair clientele. So, what were proposing is and were looking at this for along the future, is the opportunity to allow the mta to lease these grant medallions directly to the companies to ensure that that service will continue and to ensure that our wheelchair customers maintain priority as part of our ramp program. [speaker not understood]. Thank you very much, mr. [speaker not understood]. Members of the public care to address the board on this matter . Yes, mr. Chairman. Well start with charles rathbone, kerry lam, and [speaker not understood]. I think mr. Oka is going to speak in this one, right . We dont have a speaker card from him. [laughter] he doesnt need one. Good afternoon. Good af