Janno Lieber
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Well, the bottom line is we're operating service on all subway lines, on all bus lines.
There are some delays, partly because we have crews that live in New Jersey, and they're not able to get in because New Jersey Transit is out of business for today.
Whoa, shade there in New Jersey, a little bit across Hudson River, Shane.
No, but listen, everybody's different.
We were able to survive this storm with, as I said, 15,000 people doing a ton of work.
But the bottom line is we're running every line.
Metro North is running 550 trains today.
Long Island Railroad running 750 trains, both of them on kind of robust holiday schedules or weekend schedules.
If you're listening, MTA commuter, check your train time app or your MTA website, mta.info, for specifics.
But we're running service, and we're ready to keep that going as we go forward in the week.
Listen, ice is the enemy of good service on rail, right?
So you have to run your de-icing trains constantly, make sure that the switches don't actually freeze up.
And we have maintainers literally standing by our major switches, our major interlockings to constantly de-ice.
But we got all the snow by running service yesterday right through the system.
We got the snow off of the third rail.
We've been maximizing our use of diesel engines on the commuter rails, which don't depend on the third rail.
And we're going to keep at it.
So there are new challenges brought on by icing, especially for the bus system, which is 100% chained.
All the wheels are chained.
But we're going to keep managing through.