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Jack Reed: “If we subsidized these transit systems at the rate we subsidize the airline infrastructure and the road infrastructure…”

On the recordDecember 9, 2009
If we subsidized these transit systems at the rate we subsidize the airline infrastructure and the road infrastructure, these problems might be self-correcting because the money would be adequate to do this.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Reed emphasizes the need for adequate funding for transit systems.

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