Railway Age posted a dissenting opinion. There's nothing Orange Man Bad about this. Note MTA chair Foye criticized the the current state of transit agencies and large contractors by recalling President Dwight Eisenhower’s long-ago warning of the Military Industrial Complex and its “cozy familiarity between the military and large defense contractors.” Foye said, “The same, unsurprisingly, happens in the Transportation Industrial Complex.” He also said that firms that were “protected from normal market forces by their near-monopoly position … with the possibly of endless frustration and cost overruns to the agency and our customers.” Foye made these statements at a Capital Projects Oversight Committee (CPOC) on April 15
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