everyone and you have heard that there are three areas and i think is safety, and the liability and the insurance that we talked about and congestion. and these are all things that should be and i think that obviously are from your remarks, or concerns of the city, and i hope that this will carry forth after today that things change and we want to keep this taxi company viable and we are not afraid of competition but we need a little playing field and that we have direly need your support, thank you very much. thank you. john hann, dave snyder, tony slay, seth berm an, david smith, walter durly and david barlow. i am a yellow cab driver and i have been driving in the city for 18 years and i waited to get a free med dallon for 16 years and the city did decide to sell it for $250,000. and i borrowed money from all over to get this down payment to pay it for the federal credit bank and then unfortunately, you know, our business is not really protected from the city. and we
out here. and if new york and new orleans and all of these other cities can shut them down, why can t 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 don t get it confused we are not blind, you are not blind, and tnc drivers do not have this. this is what a taxi driver has to have on top of everything else, experience and skills. don t get it confused. the industry is dying, and it is gapsing for its last breath and be regulating an unregulated business, if you regulate us, regulate them exactly the same, no difference. thank you. thank you supervisor, mar for having this meeting, we appreciate it very much. i am a medallion holder in san francisco and i have been driving a cab for 24 years. and i am going tell you something now that the taxi industry that the companies will go out of business within a year if you don t stop these people. they are driving around with no. and i seen them l
yeah, thanks for holding the meeting what i am here just now to response of the puc lady in which she said that we have been waiting for 25 years to implement the regulation, and the speaker, and now she has the courage to stand here, and to say that we will look at the regulations she is not. but if we have to wait and we have 25 years, for that, no, it is that 30, and it is within your authority to implement the regulation and not the state. what she sees in the book she does not go in the state and see how much, and how many cabs, and okay? and the same, same driver, in the driving taxi and the driving for x, okay? and the lower (inaudible) ten hours, because i said, that (inaudible) and it starts and at 8:00 in the morning and they go, to ten at night and so that it is 18 hours or 19 hours a day and then you figure out how safe that is. and thank you. supervisors, jim galespie general manager of yellow cab cooperative and i am encouraged by this hearing and we need th
no problem. about insuring a lot of people told already that there was a cap between the revolution stops and uber, insurance starts and so there is no insurance and those cars driving around, and as we know are killing people and so we don t 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 don t come to work, they don t 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 can t we? tmc is just another name for taxi and they do exa
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