The Federal Highway Administration should essentially recognize that later-year funding in the program will be subject to state legislative action, and that happens in many states, |
The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers. |
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning. |
There's a lot of communication going on and that's why we're having a face-to-face meeting. We're not worried but we won't be satisfied until we have the (funding plan) approved. |
We don't think there's any problem from an engineering perspective or a structural perspective. The bridge is safe. |
We're going to address the problem. If you want to characterize that as a shift in the position of the department, that would be fair. |
We're going to take a closer look at how notification needs to occur. |
We're working closely with Kearny OEM [Office of Emergency Management] to put a more codified operating plan in place. |
What exactly happened? How did our practices work? Could we have done more? |