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[quote user="Bucyrus"]<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="verdana,geneva">I have to ask why any official would volunteer this incredibly sensitive and incriminating information before the official investigation has even begun.<span style=""> </span>I can only conclude that it is evidence of an on-going agenda to lobby the public for more funding by highlighting the premise that inadequate funding increases danger to the public.<span style=""> </span>What better tool could there be?<span style=""> </span>It basically tries to blame the crash on the taxpayers.<span style=""> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,geneva"></font></font></span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="2"><font face="verdana,geneva">But, at the same time, this tactic seems incredibly ham-handed for failing to see the unintended consequence.<span style=""> </span>That is, when you blame unsafe equipment on a lack of funding, you acknowledge that you are placing the public in danger by knowingly running unsafe equipment.<span style=""> </span></font></font></span></p><p>[/quote]</p><p>I thought it was the National Transportation Safety Board (NSTB) that was making the statements, not the DC Metro itself.<br></p>
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