. >> my name is bernard myers. i am a member of the people of task force of the board last year. our concern in that task force was to help the continued robustness of the entire public transportation system in the city. the allocation of substantial amounts of public funds, to me, to this project -- and i will let others speak about what is wrong with the product itself, but the allocation of these funds, the potential of being held for any cost overruns, has the potential to impoverished the system for years to come, which will not allow a lot of jobs to take place. just to justify it on the basis of leveraging federal funds is almost an end in itself, as this the gentleman indicated, does not do it. you should not be so blinded by the idea that the money, the product itself, is not worth it. the other thing that i am really amazed about, all of the supervisors who have transportation -- parts of the transportation system in their district, are perfectly willing to allow the system to not be able to robustly rebuild and expand those systems, just to allow this one idiot boondog