04/17/2018
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"I continue to believe that there has to be attention to the penalty provisions to make sure that they are commensurate with the kind of neglect and failing that we've seen at Metro-North on occasion t..."
"the $5,000 penalty, under those circumstances of neglect, the severity of the consequences, the seriousness of the safety violations, is atrociously inadequate as a measure of what happened here."
"It carries about 90,000 vehicles a day, and it will have a huge impact in creating congestion, from Florida to Maine."
"When the penalties aren't sufficient, there's no incentive to obey them."