When a state's transportation network is working right, it brings people and goods to the right places at the right time. When it's really working right, it brings jobs. Transportation is what makes a state competitive.
Transportation is economic development.
These decisions span every form of travel, every mode of transportation. They all add up, as they should, to a transportation network that is second to none. Now, it may be a happy stroke of nature that Baltimore is smack in the middle of the East Coast in one of the fastest growing, most productive corridors in this nation. And it isn't by accident that Baltimore is about to triple its rail ramps to the Midwest with the acquisition of Conrail by CSX and Norfolk Southern. An intermodal system doesn't just happen.