THANK YOU FROM PRT.

Pittsburgh Regional Transit would like to thank all our guests who came to visit us for the American Public Transportation Association’s Rail Conference here in Pittsburgh. We would especially like to thank the representatives from other cities who gave us suggestions. We were very grateful to the delightful Southern lady from Norfolk who gave us the benefit of her experience running a light-rail system that opened in 2011, if we are not mistaken. There was that well-informed gentleman from Phoenix who explained how we might profit from the example of his home city, where light-rail service began in 2009. And the young man from Cincinnati who was an encyclopedia of information about how they run things on the Bell Connector, which opened in 2016—we remember that conversation vividly. And here is a fun fact about Pittsburgh that you might not have heard while you were here. We have been doing urban rail transit continuously for 164 years, since the first horsecars rolled down the streets in 1859. So maybe you should just shut up.