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
So, that i think summarizes what we have before you. I just want to thank the many staff and the mayor and the board president for their work to get this done, and happy to take questions either now or after public comment. We can certainly ask members of the public to come forward at this point. Do we have some names . Yes, for item 11 greg gi ber, howard wong [speaker not understood]. Those are the first three. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. Thank you for allowing me to speak here. Just now and again at the january Public Meeting on north beach, director reiskin assured us that this boring site, this would only be for the removal of the tunnel Boring Machines. With that restriction, i support this project, but really only as the better of two not so attractive options. I dont think its particularly difficult for one to figure out that the economics of taking this thing out of north beach versus the more traditional methods of backing the machine out, bearing, cutting the heads
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
So, thats the item before you. As the board president referenced, there have been various concerns by various members of the community, surrounding various aspects about this. I think theres one category of folks who have consistently not supported the general project and theyve raised a number of concerns that we have been able to address in writing and i sent you a copy of that last wednesday night. There are i think some very legitimate concerns of the immediately abutting Property Owners. Now that were not on the public rightofway, the impact, construction impact to the great majority of north beach residents and merchants is very, very small, but the people who are directly abutting the site, you know, they will be abutting a construction site, as it would have been whether or not we came there presuming this project would go forward, but they will additionally have the impacts of our project. Well be working closely with them, with the office of economic and Work Force Developmen