Accommodate that kind of demand driven by change and growth unless we invest in transportation today. And specifically public transport. Of course more people means more people trying to get to work and because this is america it also means more people starting and growing businesses and they will need to connect to workers. A very recent example. When the big blizzard in january shutdown bostons Public Transportation Massachusetts General Hospital had a real problem. According to the hospital, nearly half of their employees take public transit. So in the midst of this very dangerous storm they were literally working overtime to make sure they could get enough on every shift to serve their patients. That is the situation that is not as unique as it sounds. In atlanta, University Study looked at 50 Industry Sectors that make up the regions economy and it found that 14 of the 18,000 fastestgrowing sectors are among those whose workers rely heavily on local Transit Services to get to and
His knee. Im sure if he was here, hed be the first to point out that iron that like our infrastructure, all of us are getting older and in need of repair from time to time. There was one very important message, however, he wanted to be with you today to share. And that is to thank each of you for coming to washington and to visit with your members of congress. Hes been to the hill many times himself over the past year. And hes worked hard to share with lawmakers the stark facts and a sense of urgency. Hes explained how were investing much less than we should be in transportation. And hes warned that because of that disinvestment, weve fallen behind on repairs. Something we have to address even as we plan for the new capacity we must have for growing demand. But these same arguments carry so much more weight when they come from you. You are able to speak in concrete terms about communities that are struggling to stay on the move. Large ones and small ones. Urban and rural. Red and blue.
On the what. The thing that gets set up and whether it qualify as an exchange set up by the state. These exchanges do qualify. The rope they qualify is because they fulfill the requirement in section 1311 b 1 each state shall establish an exchange. 1321 tells you that. It says to hhs when a state hasnt elected to meet federal requirements hhs steps in. What hhs does is set up the requirement exchange. Such exchange referring immediately to the required exchange, only required act under exchange 1311 b 1. It has to be what hhs is doing under plain text of the statute fulfilling 1311 b 1 each state establish an exchange. For that reason we say it qualifies as an exchange established by the state. Thats reinforced as justice said earlier definition, exchange is established under section 1311. 1311 again 1311 b 1, which says each state shall establish an exchange. It has to be that way. Petitioners have conceded page 22 of their brief that an exchange that hhs sets up is supposed to be the
Out. As were starting with this new authority, a couple of thing, critical. First of all, throughout the d. O. T. , safety is our number one priority. There cant be enough attention to this. But for transit, our challenge is also recognizing approaching safety, one size wont fit all in terms of a regulatory framework. That simply just wont happen. And so, weve been spending a lot of time, you know, explaining and building on whats going to be the centerpiece of our work which is a Safety Management system approach, an sms approach. Used extensively in the aviation industry. Faa has deployed it some time. And explored by a number of our agencies. And the thought is you approach this not as a checklist of all the things you have to get right but as a Risk Management. You look at the risk circumstances of your operating environment, your capital environment, your worker safety environment. And you build a program around your Risk Management portfolio. So, you know, thats not a concept tha
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