 I'm standing on the Coolidge Bridge over the Connecticut River here and I've spent many an afternoon out here holding political signs over the years, but of course our bridges and roads are principally for supporting political campaigns. But I'm standing here because I wanted to highlight a couple of things. During the time that I've served in office, little literally scores of bridges in my district have been repaired and replaced. And major roadways, Route 116, Route 9, Route 91, 5 and 10, Route 2, all saw major major reconstruction and improvements throughout my district. And when that work is going on, of course lots of people are employed. Of course it's also a bit of nuisance for us as travelers because it interferes with our ability to get from here to there as quickly as we'd like. But once those projects are finished, a lot of people will have earned some pretty healthy paychecks along the way, but then our transportation system is improved and is critical for economic development and helping to support our economy. But there's more than just transportation by car and truck. I've already spoken in another clip about the work we're doing to improve rail transportation, but there are other people who like to do transportation in other ways and over my shoulder here is a piece of the extensive bikeway system that we're creating here in Franklin and Hampshire counties. The Manham Trail, the Norwatic Rail Trail, the Franklin County Rail Trail, these are all systems that are being built over many decades now, which are now finally being linked with each other so that you'll be able to one day start about anywhere in Franklin County and be in a bike lane on a road, go on to a bike trail, maybe get back on to a bike lane on a road, but then move from Franklin County all the way through Hampshire County into parts of Hamden County over South Hadley, over the notch and heading into that direction into Holioc and down to Springfield and on route two and maybe other routes, in fact, route nine all the way out into Berkshire County. So someday we hope to take this vision that actually started with State Senator John Olver, now Congressman John Olver, to create within Western Massachusetts an interconnected bike trail system so that you could bike from most any part of Western Mass to any other part of Western Mass. And in the last decade or so, we've seen approximately $20 million invested in bike paths in our region. Also in another segment that you can find in this series, I talked about bus transportation and our van systems through our Pioneer Valley Regional Transit Authority and our Franklin Regional Transit Authority. So through our public transportation system, through our bike system, we can not only help it make possible for people to get from place to place through alternative systems, but we're also saving energy and helping improve our climate. And climate control is a very serious problem that we're wrestling with in this country and in the world. And we have to keep moving as aggressively as possible on that front. And we can do things in our own homes from turning off lights and and having low flow shower heads and and you know, just doing buying energy efficient appliances. But we can also think about what we're doing in transportation. And even as we improve our road and bridge systems, we can also commit ourselves to working on alternative green transportation systems and then trying them out. And who knows, you might find that the exercise you're looking for is actually on a bicycle getting from your home to work or from your home to the post office of the library. So think about alternative transportation, even as you're supporting improving our public transportation and our traditional transportation systems through your taxes.