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Eleanor Holmes Norton: So typically, there must be dozens of subway systems across the Nation that are by the seat of their own pants.

On the recordJuly 13, 2009
So typically, there must be dozens of subway systems across the Nation that are by the seat of their own pants.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton highlights the lack of regulation for many subway systems in the U.S.

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