Roger Harris
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And it's supply and demand, right?
If we lower the prices too much, then the planes, the trains fill up.
too soon, and there isn't a seat available for that last-minute customer.
But we see help on the way in terms of more capacity, because that's really the answer when you have a ton of demand like we do today.
So, the new Acela trains, which we're rolling out, have 27% more seats than the old-generation Acelas.
Focusing very hard on rolling out those new Acelas.
So we have five, we have seven in service at the moment.
And we're going to have 24 by the end of this coming year.
And then the new fleet that rolls in as well will be additional capacity.
So I think that's really the light at the end of the tunnel.
Yeah.
So, you know, many of the trains we have can go faster than the infrastructure allows.
And it's really about not only the rails, but also things like the electrical systems, the wires overhead that supply the electricity for the trains.
Right.
Right.
Well, we have to replace all that infrastructure in order to make the trains go faster because that infrastructure I was telling you about is basically 100 years old and trains didn't go that fast 100 years ago.
So that's what we're working on.
It takes a long time to do that, unfortunately.
We've in general, we've seen the funding come through every month, the big projects that we're working on.
So I think that the challenge at hand is really to kind of buckle down and get the projects done that we're already working on.