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China’s attempt at a high-speed rail network is fraught with corrupt officials, impossible costs, and deadly safety failures. But U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wishes America would follow it as a model. LaHood told The Cable last week: The Chinese are more successful [in building infrastructure] because in their country, only three people make the decision. In our country, 3,000 people do, 3 million. In a country where only three people make the decision, they can decide where to put their rail line, get the money, and do it. We don’t do it that way in America. His comments are...

<p>If anything.</p> <p>Mayor Bloomberg has an affirmative obligation - to the 70,000 commuters who use the ferries each day and to the survivors of the 10 victims who were laid to rest yesterday - to answer those questions. Today.</p> <p>As unambiguously as possible.</p>