I am very appreciative and I think all of the mayors in the region are appreciative of the gas tax fund. We find it to be a very useful adjunct to the other programs that are available to us.
One of the problems with the gas tax fund originally was that there was considerable political interference in regard to the dispersion of those funds from both the provincial and federal governments. We in the Lower Mainland were in a position to be able to transfer all of those funds to TransLink for transportation improvements, and we agreed as mayors in the Lower Mainland that rather than taking those funds individually, we would put all of our funds together to improve the assets that are available to TransLink.
We would like to see those funds given to us for operating purposes, rather than simply for capital. It would solve many of the problems we have in funding transit if we were given that money on a consistent basis, because we could leverage it to produce more borrowing power than is available to us now. But even as a capital fund, it's useful to us.