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Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx at the Lincoln Kawasaki plant. About 450 people work at the plant making the passenger rail cars and engineer’s cabs that move people throughout the nation’s train mass transit centers, such as Boston, New York and Washington, D.C.

POSTED: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 1:30 AM
By Russell Hubbard / World-Herald staff writer

LINCOLN — U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Tuesday that Nebraskans should care deeply about plans to increase federal spending on subways and commuter trains — even though the nearest large systems are about 450 miles away in Chicago.

He said that’s because hundreds of Nebraskans earn a paycheck manufacturing subway and commuter rail cars at the Kawasaki plant in Lincoln. Foxx was at the plant touting the GROW America Act, a federal bill that would increase spending for subway and commuter rail transport, calling it good business for Nebraska.

“This plant has workers whose lives depend on it,” Foxx told a crowd of assembled workers after he toured the plant Tuesday afternoon. “It is part of the mettle that makes this country what it is.”

About 450 people work at the plant making the passenger rail cars and engineer’s cabs that move people throughout the nation’s train mass transit centers, such as Boston, New York and Washington, D.C.



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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx speaks at the Lincoln Kawasaki plant on Monday.

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