. >> good morning, chair peskin, board members and staff, my name is adinna levin. i'm part of the friends of dtx group who are speaking with you today. i want tot commend the agency for moving forward with this piece, the peer review piece, that sets the stage for some key decisions about completing the downtown extension and, as a couple of the previous speakers said, this is one of two key pieces that are required for things to fall into place to allow this project to move forward. the second piece shortly forthcoming is choosing an alignment from the rav study in order to make that decision to have a complete project that would then create a project that is shovel ready. as we're looking at the bigger picture, transportation goals, and working on the next generation of funding to do large and transformative projects such as this one, moving this forward, making a decision, being ready will put this in the queue to be the regional transformative project that it is. with that, i would also like the thank chair peskin for calling out the importance of the platform