A petition was received from Cambridge Taxi Drivers Owners Association, regarding helping to support the Cambridge Taxi Industry and improve transportation in the City of Cambridge

CAMBRIDGE TAXI DRIVERS OWNERS 2019 FEB 25 AM IO: 57 ASSOCIATION OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS February 19, 2019 City of Cambridge 795 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 To: The Honorable Mayor Marc C. McGovern, The Honorable Vice Mayor Jan Devereux and License Commission Chairperson Nicole Murati Ferrer We have prepared this letter in response to an article that was published in Cambridge Day on February 12, 2019 regarding the possibility of TNC vehicles being granted access to taxi stands to pick up and drop off riders. (enclosed is a copy of the article. The statements made in this article are extremely disturbing and disappointing given that taxis licensed by the City of Cambridge are small business owners that have been serving the residents and visitors of the City for over 70 years. The City should find ways to work with and help support all of its small business owners, not tear them down. Taking away long standing cab stands will further the already struggling Cambridge Taxi Industry. These actions will only be proof of the City's complicity in the demise of this once thriving industry in exchange for supporting the large corporate TNCs. According to the article from February 12, 2019, here are the facts regarding the issues around the increased drop off and pick up related to TNCs and the safety around these activities. Creating designated drop off and pick up areas for TNCs is a band aid approach to fixing the real problem which is the uncontrolled growth of TNCs whose drivers continue to circle the streets (more than 50% of the time empty) within the 7.105 square miles of the Cambridge. • As of 2017, there were approximately 180,000 TNC drivers registered with le Commonwealth of Massachusetts and 70,000 TC drivers without o ate registrations working as TNC drivers in the Commonwealth o Massachusetts. • Most of these 250,000 drivers primarily pick up ehails in Boston and Cambridge. • In 2017, there was 6,782,366 TNC rides originated from Cambridge which represents 64.49 per person trips (based on 2010 Census population of 105,162). • This 64.49 per person trip is the highest in the state. • These numbers will continue to grow without intervention by the City to cap

this growth and to prevent irreparable harm to the city roads, environment, congestion and safety of all residents and visitors. Below is a list of actions that we would like the opportunity to discuss with you in order to help support the Cambridge Taxi Industry and improve transportation in the City of Cambridge. 1. File a Home Rule Petition to grant the power to the City of Cambridge to enact regulations where the City can control the number of drivers and vehicles registered to pick up and drop off in the City Cambridge. 2. Maintain all long standing cab stands in the City of Cambridge, including the stands in Kendall Square, Central Square and the Marriott. 3. Reinstall the taxi stand at MIT and Cambridge Hospital that were removed. 4. Install clearly marked new taxi stands at all new hotels S. Aggressive enforcement of live parking violations and of TNC vehicles that presently block taxi stands, bike lanes, cross walks and handicap ramps. 6. Support the roll out of a universal, citywide ehailing/booking application cell ›hone to cell phone, tabiet to tablet, that will provide firm upfront pricing ased on meter rates, current traffic conditions and distance from point A t point B. There is an app approved by NYC TLC that is looking to expand to the City of Cambridge to unify the cabs in the city. 7. Aggressive enforcement of all city ordinances and regulations pertaining to veries using tax tops as well a eries using ta tops as cal as prial seated kehiclest of or tops. These cabs pose a safety risk to the public and should be heavily fined or impounded. 8. Develop new Logo to be added to the exterior of all cabs licensed by the City of Cambridge. 9. Support the industry by providing grants or no interest loans to purchase vehicles to be used as licensed taxis in the City of Cambridge. 10. Promote and market the Cambridge Taxi Industry on Cambridge gov or any other city sponsored websites or social media. We represent the thousands of taxi medallion owners, taxi drivers as well as the members of their families that have been financially and emotionally harmed by the crisis that exists today within the taxi industry. We believe that if the City does not start taking the actions noted above and the number of TNC vehicles and gypsy cabs remain unchecked, years from now, the City will be faced with a failing public transportation system (the MBTA is also losing revenue due to competition from the TNCs), failing roadways (the cost of maintenance due to increased vehicles on the road will surpass any tax assessed to the INCs) and environmental issues (due to continued congestion and traffic in the City of Cambridge).

We are looking forward to meeting with City officials to work collaboratively to daress these proposed actions to provide improvements not only to the Cambridg axi Industry, but also to the Citv of Cambridoe itcel We look forward to hearing back on a date and time to meet. Respectfully and Best Regards, signatures The Cambridge Taxi Drivers Owners Association Mohannad [email removed]-[phone removed] Nelson [email removed]- [phone removed] Baldwinder Gill- [email removed]-[phone removed] cc: Councilor Dennis Carlone Councilor Craig A. Kelley Councilor Alanna M. Mallon Councilor Sumbul Siddiqui Councilor E. Denise Simmons Councilor Timothy J. Toorey, Jr. Councilor Quinton Y. Zondervan City Manager Louis A. DePasquale Director Joseph Barr 1

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mobile First name medallion # Last name Luc (Guerrser [phone removed] 90 :[phone removed] Serge Dorcelu Walid [phone removed] Nakhoul 91 92 Walid Nakhoul [phone removed] 94 Jean Gerard [phone removed] 94 Jean Larrame [phone removed] 95 96 97 Don Williams [phone removed] 98 Linda Garofalo |[phone removed] 99 100 101 102 103 Nakhoul Walid [phone removed] Kafal 104 Abdul [phone removed] 105 Jean a Louis [phone removed] Jean scheduled for auction on 11/29 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 scheduled for auction on 11/29 113 114 Bechwati George [phone removed] 115 116 Amir Sassine |[phone removed] 117 TWalid Nakhoul [phone removed] 118 Yves [phone removed] Fanfein 119 scheduled for auction on 11/29 120 121 Semee 122 Marie [phone removed] 123 124 125 Hana 126 Yoda [phone removed] 127 128 Hanon _Youla [phone removed] scheduled for auction on 11/29 129 130 Ernst 131 Tangar [phone removed]

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First name medallion # Last name mobile scheduled for auction on 11/29 219 Pierii Josph 220 [phone removed] Camill Andre [phone removed] 221 222 223 [Lelievre Tulysse [phone removed] 224 225 Bassam 226 Deeb [phone removed] 227 [phone removed] Alsaindor Damien 228 Pierre Chaperon [[phone removed] Jospeh [phone removed] LaSilver 228 229 scheduled for auction on 11/29 Pierre [phone removed] Samuet 230 231 232 233 [phone removed] Don Williams [phone removed] [Gerdip Singh 234 235 236 scheduled for auction on 11/29 237 Jenel 238 [phone removed] Cherilus 239 Miratel 240 [phone removed] Guerrier 241 Gill /Baldwinder 242 [phone removed] 243 Walid Nakhoul [phone removed] Saint 244 Lesly [phone removed] 245 246 -scheduled for auction on 11/29 247 [phone removed] Walid Nakhoul 248 (Kuljit [phone removed] |Kaikit 249 249 [phone removed] /Suramant Singh 250 251 252 253 scheduled for auction on 11/29 Gustavo Hernandez ([phone removed] 254 [phone removed] Salah Muriv 255 256 Sukhwaiant [phone removed] 257 Singh