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Metro Express at the 152nd St. station, my station and we've just launched and cut the ribbon. This is transformational for transportation in Miami-Dade County. It took a village to build the Metro Express system and we know that we have a really great product and people are looking to us for the future. And these buses are quiet, heavily air conditioned with, with charging for your phones and Wi-Fi and everything. It really feels like a very different experience and. Really, we're being very innovative here and it's very exciting. I had the opportunity to work on this project from both the state and local side, making sure that the state was able to provide $100 million of funding and then to sit and cut the ribbon today. It's just a culmination of a fantastic career for me. This is about the people, the residents of Miami-Dade County that will use this rapid bus transit system that will get have reliable transportation to get to work and back and be able to spend more time with their families and support their families every single day. Projects like this allow our residents greater access to professions 2 jobs, which creates the money that they need in order to feed their family. So this sort of project could never have been done without all of you. It connects people to. Opportunity, it connects them to parks, it connects them to their doctor's appointment. You're getting people moving and you're making them healthier. We're super excited about the BRT and its connection to Dadeland. This is the opportunity for us to be ambassadors of this new modality. Congratulations to the people of South Dade. You now have a rapid transit option here in in your community. This is about the people that were privileged to. Represent to make their lives a little bit better, a little bit easier. It is a great day and it's a long time coming.