the concept of faster bay area, like michelle said, came out of 2016 victories in seattle and los angelos and three groups in our region, bur, the bay area council and the leadership group looked around at the fragmented transportation system, especially public transit and realized that unless we can create an integrated and seamless system, we're never going to be able to provide access to opportunity for all of our residents, especially with the displacement taking place and we're never going to be able to really reduce our climate emissions. transportation continues to rise in the state, even on an absolute level and so we've got to get our transit system to be one that works across the region and seamless lou. seamlessly. we believe the future needs to be faster and in 2020, the region should have a chance to vote on something transformative and for us, that means we need transit that works for everywhere by, first of all, fixing our current system, including needs in san francisco, expanding it and making it faster, frequent and reliable. and to do that, though, we need to do things