audience cheering and applause mister secretary, welcome. Thank you very much evan. [evan] an honor to have you here. Its great to be here. Let me ask you to grade the nations Transportation System dont grade on a curve, i want hard grading like you used to get at davidson, and at nyu law school, i want you to do elite grading here. If you had to assess the health and the well being of the nations Transportation System, what grade would you give it . Well, i think itd be about a d. [evan] itd be a d . Yeah. You run your department, really . Youre a hard selfgrader. Well, you know what, there are a lot of reasons why and frankly, none of them have to do with me. [evan] you inherited it. audience laughs is that what it is . Yeah, exactly, i inherited this problem. anthony laughing but you own it, so [anthony] i do own it. What are the reasons that you would give this system a d . Well, there are three basic reasons. One, we are underinvesting at a scale that is massive in this country. W
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