I stand with you 100 percent in urging Congress to provide adequate funding to build transit system capacity to meet growing ridership demand.
Anthony Foxx: “I stand with you 100 percent in urging Congress to provide adequate funding to build transit system capacity to meet…”
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Foxx supports funding for transit systems to meet increasing demand.
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Our bill puts fully $28.6 billion over 6 years into a passenger rail system so that there is multiyear certainty that allows Amtrak to actually plan.
A tidal wave is coming for us, Mr. Chairman, and the question is--are we going to choke on our own growth or are we going to build for it?
It is imperative. In this case the cost of delay is measured in lost members of our families, of pain and suffering, and the denial of economic, health and social opportunity for the elderly, disabled and the impoverished.
If America is going to be a world leader in producing this energy than we're going to have to be a world leader in safely transporting it as well.