American - Politician | April 30, 1971 -
Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.
Anthony Foxx
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Tolling... has a place. We're not going to toll our way to prosperity as a country. It is a tool that can be used in some instances, for example, to add capacity and to pay for that capacity privately. But I don't think it is a complete solution to how we deal with our surface transportation issues.
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Would I like to see baseball happen in Charlotte? Absolutely.
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You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.
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America is hungry and starving for more infrastructure investment.
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The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal for safety... and it's an opportunity to engage the automobile in the work of ensuring collision avoidance.
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We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing - literally, silence can kill.
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If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.
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Today, 65 percent of America's population live in metropolitan areas - and 95 percent of all the transit miles traveled are traveled there. Metropolitan regions are the engines of our economy.
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The I-495 bridge over the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware, is tilting.
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I'm very bullish on the streetcar.
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We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.
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