What message would Randy Clarke, CEO of the Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority, give to President Trump?
"President Trump and the entire administration say they want to build, and they want to build faster," Clarke told the Dream City podcast. "Metro wants to build stuff, and we want to build faster."
In a wide-ranging conversation with Cuneyt Dil and Tom Sherwood on Dream City, Clarke said he has found plenty of common ground to work with the Trump Administration and will seek hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding to accelerate Metrorail automation. Clarke also detailed future plans for Metro, including the proposed Gold Line express bus route, and talked about being a local celebrity--which he says is "a little awkward".
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