. >> hello, michael rhodes, transit division. want to highlight a few of the accomplishments and key dates on the first if you years of the g.o. bond first issuance here. one of the major ones we want to call out is that we started construction on chestnut street in 2017 and want to mention that's nearing completion of construction, that's one that has come along since our last meeting. some other highlights, we have major safety upgrades on ter -- taravel street, and san bruno saw some important upgrades. and fulton between 6th avenue and market street, and also substantially complete, so very recently completed construction on that project. some other important upgrades, construction on inner irving, as well as we see later second issuance was approved in february, so, quite a few projects have broken ground over the last several years here and we are starting to see some of them reach the completion of construction and especially in the last several months. >> thanks, michael. >> as you can see, we are very excited about our b

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chairman, michael neal, who has done a great job and is probably going to retire. we think william rhodesbank and retreat, how do you retreat selected parts of a new york desk and maintain an american relationship? >> that is going to be very difficult because they built up the investment bank tremendously. tom: were they successful? i think their problem was overcapitalize and they extended themselves. the american banks in 2009 decided to write off the bumb debts. this is why the major american banks are in much better shape. we have the royal bank of scotland in the hands of the government after all of these years. francine: on deutsche bank, is it right that deutsche bank almost forgets the u.s. to refocus on europe -- is that the right strategy? we have to remember that deutsche bank is the bank in germany. historically and that is their major franchise. timespend a lot of building up their american business. too not think they are going abandon that anytime soon, but they are in mode. there is a big challenge for the i think that, but under most circumstances, you would say they wou