maroney who i have a lot of respect for and brian and i have a lot of history on the bridge. don't think it's been as opened as it should have been and clearly, there was mistakes made. the bridge is ten years late opening. it was $5 billion more than it was supposed to be when i voted for it and we continue to have all of these other issues about its durability. i know that brian did his best. he's great at what he does but clearly there were mistakes made we want to learn from those mistakes. >> you were the tiebreaker vote on the metropolitan transportation commission when it approves the design for this new eastern span. if you had to do it all over again would you do anything differently? >> it was a subcommittee of ntc and i was one of the members and there was a professional group giving us advice. i think the design was a mistake and i think it's a buj bridge and clearly we tried to do something aspirational that had never been done, of its type and i think we could have done just as well if we were able to do. >> or perhaps, retrofit the old bay bridge. you think tha

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