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Eleanor Holmes Norton: Is it too much to ask it to go inside, let off your passengers, as if we were a real world class city?

On the recordJuly 21, 2009
Is it too much to ask it to go inside, let off your passengers, as if we were a real world class city?
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton questions the need for charter buses to pick up passengers outside instead of inside.

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