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...cities of the West and South to the populous coastal and Midwest corridors. Splitting those people off from service, as some would propose, is deeply elitist, and would cast into Depression-era isolation the very people who in so many ways are the backbone of this country. JAMES REPASS PRESIDENT AND CEO THE NATIONAL CORRIDORS INITIATIVE Providence...
...many rail enthusiasts, the coming debate is long overdue. "Sept. 11 highlighted an existing problem: we don't have a balanced transportation system," says James RePass, president of the National Corridors Initiative, a nonprofit pro-rail group. "One of the reasons we have government is to do things we need that private business won't. No transportation system in the world really makes money...
...many rail enthusiasts, the coming debate is long overdue. "Sept. 11 highlighted an existing problem: we don't have a balanced transportation system," says James RePass, president of the National Corridors Initiative, a nonprofit pro-rail group. "One of the reasons we have government is to do things we need that private business won't. No transportation system in the world really makes money...
...Ford urged amendments that would slash the total to $11 billion (congressional Democrats are proposing to meet him halfway by cutting the bill to $15.8 billion). Ford is expected to veto another measure, already passed by Congress, that raises education benefits for veterans, and to ask the lawmakers to repass the bill after several hundred million dollars have been cut from it. Some aides predict that Ford will veto every spending bill that provides more money than the Administration requested...
...turned out, Frontierro was right, and eventually he was able to repass Quirk, who was feeling the effects of his early aggressiveness...