COME IF YOU CAN

TAXI DRIVERS NEED TO SHOW UP AND FIGHT

Tomorrow Thursday August 13, 2015

9:15 AM to sign in to speak - must be on time

9:30 Hearing begins

Public comment is first on the agenda

505 Van Ness

PUC Hearing on TNC carpooling

(they could not get their legislation passed in Sacramento to legalize what they are already doing – so they want the PUC to make it all right)

Talking points:

Based on 2014 data collected by GPS developer TomTom, San Francisco is home to the country's second most congested roadways with a 34 percent congestion level — a four percent increase since 2012.  

Lung Association’s annual list of polluted cities

San Francisco as the seventh most polluted city for year round particle pollution in 2015, when only two years earlier, in 2013 it was not even listed in the top 25.he many known gaps in insurance, public safety and consumer protection still exist. 

Privileges for these questionable services should not be expanded, as many known gaps in insurance, public safety and consumer protection still exist. 

The PUC role is not to provide cover for corporations operating illegally, who come up after the fact to make their operations legal retroactively.

Uber has added 22,000 cars to the streets of San Francisco alone. With Lyft and Sidecar, the total is over 30,000.