Marc J. Dunkelman
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that give more authority to people to make choices more expeditiously.
So that may be true.
I'm working, this is not in the book, but it's something that I'm working on now.
And I've just been thinking about it for now a month or two, and it's on my mind perpetually.
I can't exactly figure it out.
That's football, you know?
Keep going.
Absolutely.
There's a new line that's opened, a new railroad line that's opened between Boston and New Bedford, Massachusetts.
New Bedford is historically sort of a beaten down old industrial city on the south coast of Massachusetts that has not had rail service.
It's one of the few cities that has not been connected to Boston.
And it took them 35 years, but they finally opened it.
And there was a meeting that I've heard about in 2007 where MassDOT, the Department of Transportation, which intended to build this line, called a meeting of all the stakeholders who were involved.
And they called a couple of Indian tribes and they called the Massachusetts environmental groups.
They called the โ
Army Corps of Engineers who are responsible for water quality, and they called the Environmental Protection Agency.
So it's a Massachusetts, it's called the meeting, they're sitting at the head, but they've got these two federal agencies.