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Sometime now. Ive addressed that with sfo people on how to handle that. Whats happening is now that we have the 8,000 series and these other vehicles that are being added and i believe youre probably going to see another spike in hybrid medallions, but you do need incentivized drivers who dont have a medallion down the road for them to Still Service that very important community. Ive given a suggestion previously, and im going to bring it again to you. You need to work with the para Transit Coordinating Council and the broker to subsidize the time and gas that is aped expended by the drivers w...

Doesnt preclude the issuance of ramp taxi medallions to drivers in the future, its certainly, certainly points away from it. And i would urge you very strongly. Leave this door of opportunity open for drivers. Too many other doors have been closed to them. I also have to say that i oppose further leasing of medallions. I know that its in the agencys financial interest to do this, but i think that the agencys financial interests too often have been trumping the interest of drivers, the interest of companies and the interest of the public. So, id urge you not to do that. And lastly, let me just ...

Theyre essentially his property, his tool or his equipment. And he anticipates retrieving within the contract, he anticipated retrieving the machines, using the machines for his future projects or reselling them on the open market. So, there is a salvage value owe yes. These machines the machines that will be used to build the central subway are essentially new machines. Oh, these machines have a fairly, very they can be reused and refurbished and theyre used throughout the world in other projects that would use that same diameter. Great. The one final question while i have you here, the north...

Drive the ramp taxi, to continue driving a ramp taxi is the possibility of gaining a ramp taxi medallion. And although this legislation doesnt preclude the issuance of ramp taxi medallions to drivers in the future, its certainly, certainly points away from it. And i would urge you very strongly. Leave this door of opportunity open for drivers. Too many other doors have been closed to them. I also have to say that i oppose further leasing of medallions. I know that its in the agencys financial interest to do this, but i think that the agencys financial interests too often have been trumping the...

Times. There are many, many examples of this. Thank you. And finally, as to the approvals themselves that are before us, i think they seem to be fairly formulated for the project owner who would want to move forward at this time, as everybody else is in san francisco, because this is the time to build and hes at a disadvantage in hes had to wait two to three years. So, he he needs to be compensated obviously. And the changes that were approving, for example, the height change only is allowing for a new structure 55 feet rather than before we didnt have to do that because the existing building ...