Report: Biggest rail transit systems need $50B for modernization, $5.9B for annual maintenance

WASHINGTON — More than one-third of the trains, equipment and facilities of the nation’s seven largest rail transit agencies are near the end of their useful life or past that point, the government said Thursday. Many have components that are defective or may be critically damaged.

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