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On the recordJuly 13, 2009
And is it also true, to your knowledge, that there is no Federal standard in terms of crashworthiness and safety of passengers on transit systems; there is for rail systems like Amtrak, but there is not for transit?
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly questions the lack of federal safety standards for transit systems compared to rail systems.

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