03/02/2011
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"Well, as Senator Bond mentioned, we're talking about billions of dollars. Do you have a plan for how to get there?"
"we all need to have a concrete plan, not just for an appropriation here or there, but for how we're going to do this, long into the future."
"Okay. Well, in order to decide which projects you're going to fund through this program, you're going to have to rely on forecasts of ridership levels and revenues and public benefits, projects costs."
"railroads are supposed to deploy the positive train controls (PTC) by 2015."