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On the recordJuly 13, 2009
The environmental and economic advantages of building new transit systems with freight rail capacity and smarter development are, I think, pretty well established.
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Thomas Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Senator Carper discusses the benefits of new transit systems.

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