What Next TBD: Can America Fix Its Trains?

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What Next TBD: Can America Fix Its Trains?

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Aug 6, 2021

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America used to be at the vanguard of railroad technology. What went wrong? And can the new infrastructure bill fix our broken system?

Guests: Alon Levy and Eric Goldwyn of the Marron Institute at NYU

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Henry Grabar

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