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 the death of sophie lou and i look forward to working with all of you as we move forward not only with the vision zero but also the stated goals of protecting our public and the safety of our residents. Colleagues are there any other comments . Supervisor yee . So, supervisor mar, thank you, for bringing this here and in front of this committee, and i am in not, new any more, but relatively new but the supervisors that this is the first time that i have
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 the death of sophie lou and i look forward to working with all of you as we move forward not only with the vision zero but also the stated goals of protecting our public and the safety of our residents. Colleagues are there any other comments . Supervisor yee . So, supervisor mar, thank you, for bringing this he
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
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