Open Forum: Amtrak & Transportation Infrastructure

WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Published May 19, 2015 at 10:38 AM EDT

Union College Professor Ashraf Ghaly joins Alan in the studio to discuss transportation infrastructure in the wake of the Amtrak accident in Philadelphia on May 12.

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