a report from Vice Mayor Jan Devereux, Chair of the Transportation & Public Utilities Committee, for a public hearing held on April 3, 2019 to discuss Applications and Petitions # 4 of March 4, 2019, submitted by the Cambridge Taxi Drivers Owners Association on whether additional regulations on Transit Network Companies (TNC) could be implemented in Cambridge

A ATTACHMENT CAMBRIDGE TAXI DRIVERS OWNERS 2019 FEB 25 AM 10: 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 INCs. 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 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and 70,000 TNC drivers without of state registrations working as INC drivers in the Commonwealth of 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 5. Aggressive enforcement of live parking violations and of TNC vehicles that presently block taxi stands, bike lanes, cross walks and handicap ramps. O. Support the roll out of a universal, citywide ehailing/booking application cell the City of Cambridge to unify the cabs in the city. 7. Aggressive enforcement of all city ordinances and regulations pertaining to the proliferation of Gypsy cabs, illegal street pickups, out of town taxis, liveries using taxi tops as well as private plated vehicles with taxi 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 TNCs) 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 ddress these proposed actions to provide improvements not only to the Cambridg axi Industry, but also to the City of Cambridge itsell 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. Toomey, Jr. Councilor Quinton Y. Zondervan City Manager Louis A. DePasquale Director Joseph Barr 1

First name mobile medallion # Last name 1 2019 FEB 25 AMIO: 57 Nakhoul Walid [phone removed] 2 OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK 3 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 4 5 Walid [phone removed] Nakhoul Elie Rachmani [phone removed] 7 8 Piara [phone removed] Pabla 9 Walid [phone removed] Nakhoul 10 Bechwati Tony [phone removed] • 1[phone removed] 12 Walid Nakhoul Dib 13 [phone removed] Issam Walid Nakhoul [phone removed] 14 Simon [phone removed] 15 Yasmine 16 17 [phone removed] Piara Pabla 18 19 20 Walid 2[phone removed] Nakhoul [phone removed] Mahmood Rezaei 23 Thinis Jacob [phone removed] 24 25 [phone removed] Joujoute Joseph Glezil Jean [phone removed] Nelson Hernandez [phone removed] 28 29 Walid [phone removed] 30 Nakhoul Jean Glezil [phone removed] 34 (Ferjuste Jack [phone removed] 35 Pierre Joujoute [phone removed] 36 [phone removed] Bein Aime Jacques Chaperon [phone removed] Pierre [phone removed] Gill Baldwinder 38 39 40 41 42 43 Rene [phone removed] 44 Flerime

... .. mobile medallion # Last name First name 45 46 47 scheduled for auction on 11/29 48 Bechwati George [phone removed] 49 Cadet [phone removed] Alan 50 Pabla Piara [phone removed] 51 Gerardo Thomas [phone removed] 52 53 54 Ahmad 55 Mallak [phone removed] 56 57 Nakhoul Walid 58 [phone removed] 59 60 61 62 Nakhoul Walid [phone removed] 63 64 Bechwati [phone removed] George Walid Nakhoul [phone removed] 65 ... 66 67 68 [phone removed] | Fiefie Joseph 69 Joseph [phone removed] Chaperon 71 Bechwati Raymond [phone removed] 72 Walid [phone removed] Nakhoul 73 74 [phone removed] Satnam Singh Walid 75 Nakhoul [phone removed] Guillaime 76 Odieu [phone removed] /Walid Nakhoul 77 [phone removed] Jean 78 Larrame [phone removed] Kalkit 79 [phone removed] Kuljit 80 Walid Nakhoul [phone removed] 8[phone removed] Oscar 82 Rosemarie 83 84 [phone removed] Whitney Stephen 85 86 Walid [phone removed] 87 Nakhoul Emmanuel Jean 88 |[phone removed]

=. = mobile medallion # Last name First name Thuc 89 [phone removed] Guerrser Dorcelu 90 [phone removed] Serge Walid [phone removed] Nakhoul 91 92 Walid 93 [phone removed] Nakhoul Jean 94 Gerard [phone removed] 94 Jean Larrame [phone removed] 95 96 Don [phone removed] Williams Linda Garofalo 98 [phone removed] 99 100 101 102 [phone removed] 103 Walid Nakhoul 104 Kafal [phone removed] Abdul Jean a Louis Jean 105 [phone removed] 106 scheduled for auction on 11/29 107 108 109 110 111 scheduled for auction on 11/29 112 113 Bechwati 114 George [phone removed] 115 Amir [phone removed] 116 Sassine 117 Walid Nakhoul [phone removed] 118 119 ]Yves Fanfein [[phone removed] scheduled for auction on 11/29 120 121 122 Marie Semee [phone removed] 123 124 125 Hana Yoda 126 [phone removed] 127 128 Youla [phone removed] Hanon 129 scheduled for auction on 11/29 130 Ernst 13[phone removed] Tangar

First name medallion # Last name mobile 132 [phone removed] Oles 133 Berleus 134 135 scheduled for auction on 11/29 136 137 scheduled for auction on 11/29 Yahia Ali [phone removed] 138 139 140 Miranda Sergio [phone removed] 141 Basile Mathurin [phone removed] Abdallah 142 [phone removed] Hajje 143 Amir 144 Sassine [phone removed] 145 Baldwinder Gill 146 [phone removed] Pabla Piara 147 [phone removed] Piara Pabla 148 [phone removed] 149 150 scheduled for auction on 11/29 151 152 Kiet Le 153 [phone removed] [Tibor Hangyal [phone removed] 154 155 scheduled for auction on 11/29 156 157 scheduled for auction on 11/29 158 Falaise JC [phone removed] Hangyal Tibor [phone removed] 159 Abel Jean Rejoun [phone removed] 160 Akkeh George [phone removed] Ferrante Denis 16[phone removed] 162 163 164 Polynice Abner [phone removed] 165 166 Garofalo Linda [phone removed] 167 scheduled for auction on 11/29 Le Kiet 168 [phone removed] [phone removed] Hangyal Tibor 169 scheduled for auction on 11/29 170 Raad Ahmad [phone removed] Marc 171 Raymond [phone removed] 172 Larrame Jean [phone removed] 173 174 175 Walid Nakhoul [phone removed]

mobile medallion # Last name First name 176 177 178 179 scheduled for auction on 11/29 180 181 182 183 Blemur [phone removed] Jacques 184 [phone removed] 185 Paul Claude 186 Singh [Gerdip [phone removed] 187 [Joanel Oscar [phone removed] 188 189 190 [phone removed] Cadet Joseph Nakhoul Walid [phone removed] 191 192 scheduled for auction on 11/29 193 scheduled for auction on 11/29 194 195 Charles 196 [phone removed] Joujoute ... 197 198 scheduled for auction on 11/29 199 Lormil Emilio [phone removed] 200 201 202 [phone removed] 203 Bechwati Tony [phone removed] Moussa 204 [Korum 205 Bech [[phone removed] George 206 Kafal 207 Abdul [phone removed] 208 Robert Sidadras [phone removed] Walid Nakhoul 209 [phone removed] 210 Marianex Michel [phone removed] 211 212 scheduled for auction on 11/29 Amir Sassine 213 [phone removed] 214 215 216 scheduled for auction on 11/29 216 Raad [phone removed] Ahmad 217 Bechwati 218 [phone removed] George

mobile First name medallion # Last name 219 scheduled for auction on 11/29 Pieril [phone removed] 220 Josph Andre Camill 22[phone removed] 222 223 Lelievre [phone removed] 224 Tulysse : 225 Bassam 226 Deeb [phone removed] Damien 227 Alsaindor [phone removed] Pierre Chaperon [phone removed] 228 [phone removed] Jospeh [LaSilver 228 229 scheduled for auction on 11/29 [phone removed] Samuel Pierre 230 231 232 [phone removed] Don 233 Williams [phone removed] Gerdip 234 Singh 235 236 scheduled for auction on 11/29 237 Jenel [phone removed] Cherilus 238 239 [phone removed] Guerrier Miratel 240 241 |[phone removed] (Baldwinder Gill 242 Walid |[phone removed] 243 Nakhoul [phone removed] Saint [Lesly 244 245 246 scheduled for auction on 11/29 247 Walid [phone removed] Nakhoul 248 Kuljit [phone removed] Kalkit 249 Suramant [phone removed] 249 Singh 250 251 252 scheduled for auction on 11/29 253 [phone removed] Hernandez Gustavo 254 Muriv Salah [phone removed] 255 256 Sukhwaiant [phone removed] Singh 257

ATTACHMENT B TRANSPORTATION & PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMITTEE COMMITTEE MEETING ~ AGENDA ~ 1:00 PM Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Sullivan Chamber CALL OF THE MEETING The Transportation and Public Utilities Committee will conduct a public hearing to discuss Application and Petition #4 received by the City Council at the March 4, 2019 City Council meeting submitted by the Cambridge Taxi Drivers and Owners Association and to discuss whether additional regulations on Transit Network Companies (TNC) could be implemented in Cambridge. OPENING REMARKS AND INTRODUCTIONS Vice Mayor Devereux, Chair of the Transportation and Public Utilities Committee PRESENTATION Nelson Hernandez, Cambridge Taxi Drivers and Owners Association DISCUSSION WITH CITY STAFF City Manager's Office; License Commission; Law Department; Community Development Department; Department of Traffic, Parking & Transportation; Police Department PUBLIC COMMENT DISCUSSION ADJOURNMENT Page 1 City of Cambridge

ATTACHMENTC 1.6 City of Cambridge Executive Department LISA C. PETERSON LOUIS A. DePASQUALE City Manager Deputy City Manager February 11, 2019 To the Honorable, the City Council: Please find attached a response to A waiting Report Item Number 18-111, regarding a report on TNC vehicles blocking travel lanes, received from Police Commissioner Branville Bard Very truly yours, Lovie Debasquala. Louis A. DePasquale City Manager LAD/mec Attachments) City Hall • 795 Massachusetts Avenue • Cambridge • Massachusetts • 02139 [phone removed] • tty: [phone removed] • www.cambridgema.gov Packet Pg. 40

1.6.a TELEPHONE [phone removed] bity of bambridge WEB www.cambridgepolice.org FACEBOOK Police Department facebook.com/CambridgePolice TWITTER twitter.com/CambridgePolice Dr. Branville G. Bard, Jr. Louis A. DePasquale Police Commissioner City Manager vel lanes) tra To: City Manager, Louis A. DePasquale From: Police Commissioner, Branville G. Bard, Ir. Date: February 5, 2019 Ref.: Awaiting Report 18-111 Re: TNC Vehicles Blocking Travel Lanes The purpose of this response is to address Awaiting Report 18-111, regarding the uptick in. Transportation Network Company (TNC) associated vehicles blocking travel lanes to pick up and drop off passengers, and drivers of these vehicles placing peoples' safety in jeopardy, as well as adding to the traffic congestion in The Port neighborhood. (CMA 2019 #26 : TNC vehicles blockin The Police Department and the Traffic, Parking & Transportation Department have been working together to address these concerns. Director Joe Barris addressing his department's efforts to work with TN's to create pickup and drop off zones that are integrated into the various mobile apps. We have seen an increased willingness from the TNC's to work with municipalities on creating the ability to notify both drivers and users on acceptable drop off and pick up locations. While these efforts should reduce improper stopping, enforcement and education by our officers will be the most visible and effective tactic to curtail this behavior. For the past two years, all veteran and new police officers have received a block of instruction on the city's Vision Zero efforts. A major point of emphasis has been on addressing bicycle lane violations and other unsafe operation that puts pedestrians and bicyclists at risk. In addition to the city parking violation Bl for blocked bicycle lane, the legislature passed a new law (MGL ch. 89 s 4D) at the beginning of 2017 that made it a violation of state law to stand or park in a marked bicycle lane. This is an important new enforcement tool because the violation is issued to the operator of the vehicle and not to the registered owner as is the case with the city's parking ticket. In the past, officers received feedback from commercial vehicle operators and TNC drivers that parking tickets were viewed as a cost of doing business and were unlikely to deter behavior. The new statute places responsibility on the operator which Attachment: TNC Blocking Travel Lanes 021119 then becomes part of their personal driving history. Drivers of TNC and commercial vehicles are much more likely to change behavior when the violation attaches to them and not their vehicle. ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO 125 SIXTH STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02142 Packet Pg. 41

ATTACHMENTD CAMBRIDGE TAXI DRIVERS & OWNERS ASSOCIATION Good afternoon. My name is Nelson Hernandez and 1 am the President of the Cambridge Taxi Drivers & Owners Association. We are honored to be invited to address this committee about the state of the Cambridge Taxi Industry. Taxis licensed by the City of Cambridge have served residents and visitors of the City for over a half a century. Taxis have and continue to provide safe and efficient transportation based on metered fares set by the City of Cambridge. This regulated industry historically has provided a way for drivers and small business medallion owners to fulfill the American dream of working hard to earn a decent living to provide for their families. Today, these same small business medallion owners and drivers are facing an American nightmare. Upon the arrival of TNCs, the regulated Cambridge Taxi Industry started to crumble when it could not fairly compete with the un-level playing field between taxis and TNCs. Today, the Cambridge Taxi Industry is in crisis. Cambridge Taxi medallions that once fetched over $600,000 are now scheduled for auction with a minimum bid of $13,000 with little interest even at that price. Many medallion owners strapped with large bank loans with personal guarantees have lost their medallions at foreclosure and are at risk of losing their homes and any other assets that they have worked hard all their life to acquire. Today, the Cambridge Taxi Industry, with 257 licensed medallions (which at least a third are off the road due to hardship or foreclosure), is expected to compete with approximately 180,000 TNC drivers registered with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in addition to the approximately 70,000 out of state TNC drivers. The uncontrolled number of TNC vehicles is making it impossible to earn a living wage, not only for the taxi drivers, but also for the TNCs drivers as the streets are flooded with vehicles that compete for requests for rides.

Today, the Cambridge Taxi Industry is on life support. This industry will not survive without strong support and backing from the City of Cambridge in order to implement change to keep up with new technologies and the on demand life of the growing population. We do urge the City to not discount the importance of the for hire rules and regulations that were created years ago to address congestion and safety in the City; regulations that should not be replaced in order to allow an unlimited amount of TNC vehicles on the City's roads that lack the appropriate markings, vehicle safety inspections and insurance. The letter from the Cambridge Taxi Drivers and Owners Association dated February 19, 2019 includes action items that the City has the authority to implement in order to help support the Cambridge Taxi Industry and improve transportation in the City of Cambridge. These action items are what we would like to address today during this hearing. -Taxi Stands 1. Maintain all long standing cab stands in the City of Cambridge, including the stands in Kendall Square, Central Square and the Marriott. 2. Reinstall the taxi stand at MIT and Cambridge Hospital that were removed. 3. Install clearly marked new taxi stands at all new hotels where hotel concierge would be able to quickly and easily hail taxis for hotel patrons. -Entorcement 4. Aggressively enforce live parking and moving violations, including TNC vehicles blocking taxi stands, bike lanes, cross walks and handicap ramps. 5. Aggressively enforce all city ordinances and regulations pertaining to the proliferation of Gypsy cabs, illegal street pickups, out of town taxis, liveries using taxi tops as well as private plated vehicles with taxi tops. These cabs pose a safety risk to the public and should be heavily fined or impounded. -Support Industry 6. Support the roll out of a universal, citywide e-hailing/booking application to unify the industry. Cell phone to cell phone or tablet to tablet technology

will provide firm upfront pricing based on meter rates, current traffic conditions and the distance from point A to point B. 7. Provide grants to support the hybrid program to purchase vehicles to be used as licensed taxis in the City. The details of this programs have been discussed with certain City officials, but they now need to be finalized. 8. 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 and members of their families throughout the Commonwealth that have been financially and emotionally harmed by the crisis that exists today within the taxi industry. We are looking forward to working collaboratively to address these action items to provide improvements not only to the Cambridge Taxi Industry, but also to the City of Cambridge itself. We believe that, if the City does not start to take immediate action to address the issues around transportation, years from now, the City will be faced with a failing public transportation system and roadways along with detrimental and potentially irreversible environmental issues. In addition, if the Cambridge Taxi industry does not survive, the lack of competition will allow the TNCs to increase rates and leave limited to no options for fairly priced, safe and efficient transportation in the City of Cambridge. Thank you for your time today and your support for the future. Nelson Hernandez [email removed]

ATTACHMBNTE Data retrieved from Cambridge Open Data Portal and updated by TP+T on April 3, 2019. TAXI CAB STANDS

Lopez, Donna From: Cambridge Taxi <[email removed]> Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2019 11:54 PM To: Devereux, Jan; McGovern, Marc; Mallon, Alanna; City Manager; Kelley, Craig; Carlone, Dennis; Siddiqui, Sumbul; Simmons, Denise; Zondervan, Quinton; Toomey, Tim; [email removed]; Clerk; Glowa, Nancy; Traffic Feedback Thank You Subject: Attachments: CTDOA Statement for 4.3.19 hearing.pdf We would like to thank everyone that participated in the Department of Transportation and Public Utility hearing on Wednesday, April 3ra. Attached is the full statement that was read at the beginning of the hearing from the Cambridge Taxi Drivers and Owners Association. We are thankful for the opportunity for others to provide public comments, some with more passion and frustration than others. We thought there were some good discussion and creative ideas of how to address the issues the Taxi industry is facing. There are some points that we would like to clarify from the meeting: 1. Cabfare was introduced to the Cambridge Taxi drivers in June 2017. This app was never a booking app and did not gain traction at all that summer. The app has not been supported in the City of Cambridge for at least a year and half. Cabfare is an app that paired customers to drivers for identification and payment processing. This app never and still does not have an e-hail feature. Please see link. https://support.cabfare.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002972923-Is-CabFare-a-Booking-app- Currently there is no e-hail/booking taxi app available in Cambridge. NYC TLC has approved Waave as an approved provider for it Flexible Fare Pilot program. NYC TLC is 2. running a two year pilot program on flexible fares where the upfront price for a ride is an unmetered fare. So, at this time, NYC TLC has allowed taxi fares to be calculated without a meter if one of the approved apps is used to calculate the upfront price. Please see link. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/tlc/about/flex-fare-pilot-drivers.page The open items to discuss in future meetings are: a. Amendments to existing law to include in Home Rule Petition to further regulate TNC vehicles picking up riders in Cambridge. b. Ideas on how to use the $.10 from the per ride assessment that will be distributed to the City of Cambridge based on number of TNC rides originated in Cambridge during 2017-2021. Review of taxi app that provides upfront pricing based on current traffic conditions, metered rates, and distance from point A to point B. We would like the City of Cambridge to support the rollout of a Flexible Fare Pilot program, similar to the program that exists in NYC today. d. Updates on the status of taxi stands. e. Review of increased enforcement and the results of that effort.

We look forward to hearing back as to when the next scheduled meeting will take place to continue to address open items. Thanks again for your continued support! Cambridge Taxi Driver Owner Association Nelson Hernandez [email removed] (617)719-0203 2