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Joe Biden: “I think it is more appropriate to refer to this as rail safety. To give an example, the 350,000 people who go through…”

On the recordOctober 11, 2001
I think it is more appropriate to refer to this as rail safety. To give an example, the 350,000 people who go through the tunnels are not all on Amtrak trains. They are on the Long Island Railroad, they are on the New Jersey transit, using the Baltimore tunnel, for example, the Maryland transit, et cetera. It is rail safety. It is not just Amtrak. But Amtrak is responsible for the rail safety provisions of that. That is the reason I refer to it as Amtrak.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Discussing rail safety and the role of Amtrak in ensuring it.

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