DOT Secretary's update--At the 2013 TRB Chairman's Lunch, DOT message is "Safety first"

When you're talking to a hall filled with transportation professionals, it's tempting to talk about infrastructure—the importance of researching it, financing it, building it, and maintaining it. And when I addressed the TRB Chairman's Lunch earlier today, I made the case that, over the last four years, the Obama Administration has made unprecedented investments in our nation’s transportation system.

But, as I’ve said many times before, safety is DOT's number one priority. And as hard as we've worked to renew America's transportation infrastructure, we've worked even harder to ensure that everyone who uses that infrastructure can get where they're going as safely as possible.

So today at TRB, I also made a point of giving DOT’s safety efforts their due...

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