and then we go headlong into, sorry for getting this off my chest, but then we go headlong into venice be rt, knowing that all of the lessons of the central subway, these are major projects, i'm not questioning their needs or their eventual benefit, and there you have on van ness, 572 days, it just made up the number, was somewhere around there, behind schedule. we have already depressed reports of businesses going out of business. i get calls and we will hear from a woman today who runs a gym on van this avenue who has a landlord who i called yesterday, who has no understanding because he doesn't live in san francisco , that the value of his property has plummeted and he still thinks that it is worth only $4 a square foot, it is worth probably half that. this woman is at her wits and as she should be. i appreciate all this, what it is a minuscule effort. it was a gratuity. it was like a reparations payment of a fraction of what they have suffered at our behest we are the decision-makers who decided to build this 1.6 billion-dollar project, which is in a norma's amount of money, by the way,