As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?

Tolling... has a place. We're not going to toll our way to prosperity as a country. It is a tool that can be used in some instances, for example, to add capacity and to pay for that capacity privately. But I don't think it is a complete solution to how we deal with our surface transportation issues.

Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.

The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.

Find a place where you add value to a community.

We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.