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And that's the kind of thing I think and I think the schools need to tackle this car cultural thing..But I think one of the big one of the huge things that we're facing,and we're all facing it,and we're facing it individually is:Do we just jump in our car and go where we want to go?Or do we plan a little extra time? And,and take the bus?And,you know,I think that has to come under this whole thing about sustainability in the whole climate business.And it's not for us alone to solve that problem.But I think it definitely needs to get included,and maybe some suggestions of,you know,other groups that need to,to partner on this and not even partner just take it on.I mean,it's real.It's you know,it's a very real issue. And we have to address it not strangle the one of the few things that maybe helps address it,which is public transit. 6 Varda I think I want to continue somewhat in that vein, The right now the town has a very I would say call it a very laissez faire attitude toward you know people being able to use their cars or you know,if anything promote it.You can just see that by the parking along Worthern road during high school,there's no reason that that should be tolerated,but it is.So that's basically encouraging a lot of students to jump into their cars and drive to school.And as opposed to using public transportation. Other cities,for instance,New York have limitations on the cars that can come into the city center.During the day,there's basically no public policy in place to discourage car use and Lexington.So then you have empty buses riding around because there's no reason for people not to use their cars.There's no disincentive to using their cars.But one of the things that came up at the meeting is,I mean,like there was the crowd from Grant Street who said,you know,there used to be a bus that came.There's people who really don't in Lexington who really don't have access to L'Express because of the routes. So if we want L'Express to be a factor for people being able to get out of their cars.We're really restricted in that,by the way that,you know,the routes are currently designed and the fact that they don't run on Saturdays and so far,one of the things that people were saying in that meeting and I thought it was really interesting,as the reason that the ridership has gone down,is because the routes have gone down.And the accessibility of L'Express for large sections of the town doesn't even exist. So we can't look at this in a vacuum.We can't,we can't look at this as well,people aren't using it.So we should get rid of it.Or,you know,it's not an effective system,we have to look at the whole picture.The whole picture is or at least part of the picture is that the town has essentially put no restrictions on car ridership in any way and to the contrary,basically seems to promote car ridership.And secondly,the decrease of the service of L'Express means that there are many people in town who don't even have access to it and can't use it.So we have to look at all that.That's all. 2 Deepika So the next person I think had their hand up.I would like to have Sharon go first because she hasn't spoken yet.If you don't mind.Sharon,you go ahead.8 Sharon