abag has been doing the heavy living -- heavy lifting. have i said abag five times it? he will not put me on his christmas list for this year but at this point, i would like to introduce mayor lee. mayor lee spoke at our abag general assembly in san francisco in october. i am sure that was critical to his reelection success. [laughter] mayor lee -- [applause] >> yak yak, i think we're going to try to announce the banning of plastic bags peter thank you, everybody, for coming today. leader pelosi and i just finished a wonderful visit to the roof garden, and if you can actually feel prosperity, you should have been with us, because this is a wonderful project, and it is a partnership with so many people. later on when you have an opportunity to ask her, asked about the private financing that went into this. it is very remarkable that the public-private partnership that went into this project is very unique. i want to join supervisor campos as well as supervisor wiener and our mtc representatives, also abag and all of the agencies that work together, particularly the feder

transportation plan has continued to move forward as well, and now we have the issuance last week of mtc's and abag's results of the five alternative scenarios and their performance towards reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and other performance targets. and we see something that i think we all expected, which is that the performance of these scenarios falls short. in some cases, 50% short of the targets that the region should be observing. this is serious stuff. it is coming at a time when the world is talking about moving away from the kyoto treaty and the durban treaty is in question as well, and it shows the importance of the region's taking concerted approach to meeting these goals, is 15% reduction goal is not unattainable, but as we have said before a number of times, it will require measures that they're a little bit more grave than we have on the table today, including potentially some pricing-related alternatives, in my opinion, going beyond parking and repricing to get to solutions. the other thing i wanted to highlight is the really untenable set of results that we are seeing related