mr. finebaum. >> i am mr. finebaum. we urge you to accept this supplemental e.i.r. it's been well done. it's taken a long time, but the results are great. i want to talk to you a little bit about something else. as tilly well knows, the c.t.a. has suspended the funding, the $9.6 million of funding for the continuation of engineering drawings on the downtown extension. they've coupled that with a study that is going to be bid out for contract to study the management and operations of the transbay center. these two have been linked, but unfortunately, they are really not linked. the study of the operations and the future project delivery is a good idea at this time, and i think it should go forward, but i also think that funding should be released now because it is extremely destructive to that. if it is not going to be released immediately, that you empower mark and the tjpa staff to find funding elsewhere as a bridge loan to continue the engineering work. as i said, it is extraordinarily destructive, and it's a terrible idea to couple the two. i think perhaps naively, that our friends a