>>good morning david pilpel speaking as an individual i have long been involved with the mta the citizens advisory committee and the expenditure advisory committee for the 1999 and 2003 and i think the only person has longer history than me of peter strauss but he and i respectfully disagree with this project i a one supported the van nessthinking that improving this service at relatively a low cost would be a good idea but this is become quite expensive and i no longer supported. as you hear others wanted to be here and couldn't either because of the scheduling or because the lateness of the hour i want to note on the record that the eir addendum was issued after the dpw hearing. it was only issued this past march. it was should've been issued earlier so as to inform the public comment at that hearing in august and not to rationalize retroactively the decision that the dpw was going to make going along with the project. there other ways that exist to improve transit service at less cost and that save the trees. as we heard in the last speakersfew speakers this proposes to plant non-nativ

>>good morning david pilpel speaking as an individual i have long been involved with the mta the citizensdvisory committee and the expenditure advisory committee for the 1999 and 2003 and i think the only person has longer history than me of peter strauss but he and i respectfully disagree with this project i a one supported the van nessthinking that improving this service at relatively a low cost would be a good idea but this is become quite expensive and i no longer supported. as you hear others wanted to be here and couldn't either because of the scheduling or because the lateness of the hour i want to note on the record that the eir addendum was issued after the dpw hearing. it was only issued this past march. it was should've been issued earlier so as to inform the public comment at that hearing in august and not to rationalize retroactively the decision that the dpw was going to make going along with the project. there other ways that exist to improve transit service at less cost and that save the trees. as we heard in the last speakersfew speakers this proposes to plant non-native