 Aloha, I'm Tim Apachella with this ThinkTech commentary. With a rail project starting off with a budget cost of $4.6 billion and most likely heading past $10 billion, I think a rare and candid quote from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown about large civil construction projects should be remembered by every Hawaii taxpayer. He said, in the world of civic projects, the first budget is really a down payment. With people new real cost from the start, nothing would ever get approved. The idea is to get going, start digging a hole, and make it so big, there's no alternative to coming up with money to fill it in. Members of the legislature, city council, and voters deserve the respect to be told the truth about cost projections, ridership projections, and promises of new employment. We don't need alternative facts to get these mega projects approved or extend the general excise surcharge into our children's future. Mahalo, I'm Tim Apachella.