"Now, increasingly, our economic vibrancy depends on people being able to access Fairfield County from New York by rail."
"The fact of the matter is that I was dismayed and frustrated and outraged as much as that commuter and others by the 12-day service disruption caused by Con Ed's failure to carry out its work and prep..."
"Because you had the contract authority from Congress to get that money out of the trust fund, as you've talked about, Senator Blumenthal, we built it."
"But your point, Mr. Permut, if I can just cut through what you just said, is that, essentially, there was no plan in this instance for the Mount Vernon substation, either Dunwoodie or Washington Stree..."
"One point is very clear, and that is that Con Ed should be reimbursing Metro-North, Amtrak, and others for all the costs that occurred in this service outage--$2 million a day is estimated to have bee..."
"If an artery is blocked at some point, the whole body fails."
"Your focus on this disruption in and of itself should serve as a wake-up call."
"Thank you, Mr. Ivey."
"The failure to plan for this kind of contingency and provide backup sources of power was a failing that we cannot permit to be repeated."
"Wouldn't it have been a better practice either to have a backup or at least to have a plan?"
"Connecticut and the Northeast deserve a fair share."