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Kirsten Gillibrand: “The initial estimates are that just fixing our mass transit system could cost about $5 billion.”

On the recordDecember 5, 2012
The initial estimates are that just fixing our mass transit system could cost about $5 billion.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Gillibrand highlights the financial impact of storm damage on New York's transit system.

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