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On the recordJuly 13, 2009
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 choice should have been to put them in the middle so that either end would have the most crashworthy cars.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton emphasizes the need for safer train configurations.

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