Amtrak’s CEO said Thursday that Penn Station commuters may have to endure more track shutdowns – and chaotic commutes – next year, as the agency might not be able to finish up repairs to the transit hub this summer.

“We might have another outage next year,” Amtrak Chief Executive Charles W. Moorman said at a hearing before the New York State Assembly. “We just don’t know yet. Our plan is to get as much work as we can get done this year.”

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz called Amtrak out for planning to do repairs on regular workdays – and skipping the July 4 and Labor Day holidays, when more riders are using Amtrak trains instead of LIRR and NJ Transit.

He also questioned why Amtrak even runs the station.

“It seems like a strange way to do things – that the landlord is the smallest user,” he said. “Why do we need Amtrak if it’s the Long Island Railroad that uses the majority of the infrastructure in the first place?”

Moorman said he couldn’t offer details just yet on what service disruptions riders will face as a result of the work being done this summer on the station’s aging infrastructure.

“Our goal is to get the schedule out just as soon as we have agreement from all the agencies,” he said. “We hope to have that next week.”

“I know you’re anxious,” he added.

The Amtrak chief said the agency’s goal is to get the station to a “state of good repair” this summer.

“We have to get the signals to a state of good repair, because that’s also antiquated,” he said. “Often it’s a blown fuse. We have to come up with a plan for everything for the top of the rail and find the funding, but we’re committed to that.”

The hearing comes a day after Penn Station riders suffered through yet another nightmarish evening commute on account of signal problems in an East River tunnel. Several Long Island Rail Road lines were cancelled, delayed or running limited service as a result of the broken signal.

Two derailments at Penn Station within the last couple of months have also led to significant delays, frustrating LIRR and NJ Transit commuters.

Moorman said that Amtrak may partner with a private agency to handle operations at Amtrak’s concourse.

“We need to find a way to address it on a unified basis and bring in the people out there who know how to coordinate,” he said. “Those people exist in the private sector. Let the railroads, all three of us, focus on what we know how to do well, which is run railroads.”