Roger Harris

So we're still working through that.

And I think that, you know, work goes on every day while there's money available.

So I think the most important thing is to not have these projects get interrupted because that's when things start to cost a lot more money.

On the east side of Manhattan, we're working on rehabilitating East River tunnels.

We're going to have the first one back in service next July.

So those are the things that we're focusing on right now.

What's the question I get frequently?

You know, I come to work every day knowing that there could be further changes.

But so far, I think we've been working very well with the administration doing the things that we have in common.

We want to run a great railroad.

We want to get this infrastructure built.

And if you've traveled west out of Manhattan recently, you've seen the Portal North Bridge that's grown up out of the marsh almost.

And we're going to have the first trains operating on that span with our partners, New Jersey Transit, shortly after the new year.

So there's real tangible evidence of this investment in infrastructure.

Well, I think one of the problems is that going west, we only have two tubes under the Hudson, whereas there's a lot more capacity coming into Grand Central Station for Metro North.

And even from the east, there are four tunnels under the East River.

But I would say this, that all railroads...

have a really hard time every day facing just the reality of old infrastructure and the reality of the operation.

And I think there's plenty of challenges to go around.

Got to invest in that infrastructure.