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
Our district, of course is the 6th street, where we have put in a pilot curve out to make it safer on 6 and market and 6 and howard, number one and number three on the list of the most dangerous intersections to cross, and of course, late last year, when we were able to implement, the pilot bike lanes after the tragic death of 24yearold, amalie maluac, these low costs, Safety Initiatives are what we are asking sfmta to commit to and we are asking them to commit to 24 over the next two years. And focusing on our high injury corridors. Now when we talk about committing to zero fatality its seems like an ambitious goal until you understand that 60 percent of the death occur on only 6 percent of our streets and when you think about that way, the goal seems a lot more manageable if we are able to focus or engineering and redesign and our Traffic Enforcement to 6 percent of our roads, and we can cut our injuries and deaths by over half. And so we are really looking forward to this discussion
Relatively new but the supervisors that this is the first time that i have been in the hearing to listen to the concerns and so forth, and so that was very educational process for myself. The presentation, it looks like there are suggestions in there that would i like to have the discussion with my colleagues to see what we can do to have the San Francisco be a much more balanced approach to who is providing services. Thank you. Supervisor avalos . So i wanted to thank supervisor mar for holding this hearing. All too often the board of supervisors has not weighed in on issues related to taxis. And because it is under the mta, we dont have direct jurisdiction but i think that we have gotten into a crisis mode where we actually do have to discuss how we can weigh in. I have actually was very happy to here that supervisor mar was working on these issues because it made me feel that i am not alone in looking at it and i want to work collaborativively with my colleagues to see if there are
Resolution, coming up detailing the shortcomings of the policy and making strong suggestions that as we work with the states puc to fix those gaps, and to address the unfair Playing Field that currently exists that many have brought up, the issues of discrimination and especially for the disabled community and other issues, and i know that we have look at it with our attorneys and the disabled community as well and i also intend to work with our budget and legislative Analyst Office to look at the economic harm of a new industry, and look at how we as a city address the economics of this new industry, and i am not even going to call it tncs as many suggested, and start to look to a more appropriate term of a new private sector that is unregulated currently, and as others said really is a potential threat to the safety on the streets, and lastly, as i stated at the beginning of this hearing, we locally, in San Francisco, we have a responsibility to avoid the preventable tragedies like t
That was incorporated for the transit effectiveness project. Thats going through its process right now being designed at least for the transit component and looking at Pedestrian Safety as well. The folsom corridor that were identified in the project were focused on the central corridor in the Environmental Impact report that was looking on how to manage and improve the Street Network through so many so soma. Its been named central soma. A two and one way alternative will be used in terms of their lanes. We are going to widen the sidewalks and dedicate bicycle facilities and look at different transit options through there. One thing we have done recently because the eir process looks like it wont be completed until 2013, we looked at pilot on folsom street as a bicycle lane as part of that pilot and we are going to kick that off during this holiday season. We would like to see how it does. Before putting it into the eir, we are not able to see how these informed and this will help this