Driving around, and as we know are killing people and so we dont want to pay for it they should pay for it. That is first, second just one thing that i want to let you know, inaudible people is here and there are some medallions in the company that are not taken and the drivers not coming so when the heavy rain comes, those uberlift and side car people dont come to work, they dont like the rain they are afraid. The only people who work us. These are the taxi cabs fees, downloaded from the sfmta website. We paid thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars in fees, we are struggling, we are dying out here. And the cab business is dying out here. And if new york and new orleans and all of these other cities can shut them down, why cant we . Tmc is just another name for taxi and they do exactly what we do we pick them up and we charge them and we drop them off. Please dont get it confused we are not blind, you are not blind, and tnc drivers do not have this. This is what a taxi driver
Good evening, welcome to kqed newsroom. The battle for city college of San Francisco to maintain its accreditation is heating up. Today protesters staged a rally and attended a meeting in downtown sacramento. The fight has mobilized state and federal politicians, fall cu and students to keep the Largest College in california from closing its doors. Community is what this is about. Nearly two years ago, the accrediting committee ordered a number of but a lawsuit filed will prevent the school from closure in 22 months. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Paint a picture for us about what happened today at the state capital. We had a semiannual meeting. As you may know, they had put in a decision last year to disaccredit city college as of july 21st 2014. We rallied people from all around the state, maybe half from San Francisco, demanding they rescind last years decision. Our college is in compliance with accreditation standards. We went there making demands of the
Warning violent packs of people are attacking people at random. They are calling it wilding, a dangerous trend that made headlines more than 20 years ago. Im dan ashley. These attacks happened over the past few days in san leandro on east 14th street and near the bay fair mall. Abc7 News Reporter alan wang is live at the mall with the story tonight. Alan . Dan, this has been taking place every weekend for the past month. The bay fair mall has been dealing with a lot of these problems, but it is starting to happen more often including an incident yesterday afternoon. Yesterday i was driving down southbound on east 14th street and all of a sudden a gang of juveniles were right in front of my car. He was witnessing a mop of teenagers surrounding this restaurant in san leandro. Police caught two of them. One of the kids we arrested tried to take a car from the victim. He had a baby in the car. We arrested him with kid p thatting. For the past month San Leandro Police say mops of teens and
Operating without any proper commercial liability. If i work in a store and no one is in the store does that mean that i am not covered in the insurance . It is the same thing as being in the Transportation Service and the price, surging, i mean, pardon me, and they have neighborhoods that are changing from hour it hour as far as costs. And they are discriminating against the public, this is a public safety, issue, and it has. And let me just finish by saying. Wrap up quickly. Taxi cab Transportation Service it is your duty as regulators. Thank you. Thank you. High my name is bary corn gold and i have been driving a cab in the city for over 25 years and this is not a new industry, it is a new technology at one time taxi cabs used to line up at taxi stands and there will be one stand and they will get up and do the call and this taxi industry has been around hundreds of years. California government code requires cities and counties to regulate this taxi service. And we all need to be re
And you are traders to your country and your city. Thank you sir. Next speaker. Definitely agree with that. My name is Trevor Johnson and i am the technical director for the San Francisco Cab Driver Association and we are the ones collecting the license plate data on the tnc vehicles but i would like to let you guys know that as a dispatcher i can say that with the solid authority of the 30 odd accessible vehicles in the fleet only about 4 to 6 are going on per shift. That is horrendous, that is, very shameful. We have collected over 4,000 plates, over the last six months, and Major Insurance Companies are actually accessing our data to Research Insurance fraud. Start investigating and prosecuting it. And some of the tnc drivers like the guy earlier was saying that you know, we are seeing these guys with multiple phones on the window, we are talking four phones on the window, isnt textsing and driving illegal . Do we really need thousands of largely unmarked questionablely insured vehi