You know these people cannot replace these cars. And you have done your duty over and over again and said, 'Replace those cars.'
You were generous in saying WMATA didn't have a lot of money to do what really needed to be done.
The choice should have been to put them in the middle so that either end would have the most crashworthy cars.
When you develop standards, have you found that transit systems across the United States readily develop these standards, and did WMATA do s...
I tell you one thing, it's easy to go to sleep on any kind of moving vehicle, especially a train.
Your testimony has been really indispensable to this hearing. It's riveting testimony.
I will have to ask whether it was worth the investment.
Therefore, faced with choices that you can pull 30 percent of your fleet that goes back almost 40 years or put them in the middle, the choic...
It's important to hear your testimony about automatic versus manual.
Therefore, in this hearing, we are really looking for answers. It is real easy to say, 'Spend a billion dollars, and you will be safe,' but ...
So should some other Federal agency have been charged as more and more cities and States developed mass transit systems?
This hearing is not about assigning cause. We don't have the slightest idea. Nobody could possibly know.
Even if we give Mr. Rogoff the kind of perhaps authority he ought to have, I can tell you without fear of contradiction--leave aside the rec...
Frankly, I think that the victims and the public is entitled to hear any interim step we can take, however minor.
The public needs to know, short of spending money, do the experts have a response that can increase our feeling of safety when we get aboard...
What Federal law prohibits you from acting?
Why did you not recommend what looks like a common-sense recommendation that doesn't require a bunch of experts: 'Hey, at least don't make t...
So you don't have any enforcement authority, is that right? You can't tell them to do anything.
