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Dozens of San Francisco taxi drivers urge supervisors to block MTA medallion leasing, demand protections
Summary
Scores of taxi drivers, medallion applicants and advocates used public comment to press the Board of Supervisors to block the SFMTA from leasing or otherwise diverting medallions to companies, and to ensure taxi revenues are reinvested in the taxi industry.
A long series of public commenters at Tuesday’s San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting pressed elected officials to intervene in a brewing dispute over the Municipal Transportation Agency’s handling of taxicab medallions and revenues.
Speakers — many identified as long-time drivers, medallion applicants and small medallion-holding operators — urged the board to prevent the MTA from leasing or selling medallions to corporate entities rather than issuing them to qualified individual drivers on the waiting list. Commenters…
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