Unlike McKinsey, the research council included transportation, acknowledging that it would be a difficult sector to transform quickly.
State transportation officials acknowledged that the road would interfere with wildlife habitats.
James Weinstein, the state transportation commissioner, acknowledged that the Senate resolution was "absolutely" significant.
"We need to get back to an era in which public transportation is acknowledged as an essential civic responsibility," he planned to say in his remarks.
In fact, however, the transportation agency acknowledged that the corridor formally belonged to the Long Island Rail Road, which, in 1925, when it was a private carrier, acquired the New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach line.
Scott Wiener, a San Francisco city supervisor who uses Clipper daily and serves as a commissioner with the transportation agency, acknowledged some rocky initial moments, but said that London's mass transit made the same switch years ago to a system also by Cubic, which is now wildly popular.
In response, we built more highways, increasing fuel consumption and, as transportation planners acknowledge, doing little if anything to reduce traffic.
Even some officials in the transportation authority acknowledge that they do not have a comprehensive plan for repaying all the debt they envision.
Much of the testimony today focused on the federal highway safety agency and what even top transportation officials acknowledge is its ineffectiveness in spotting and monitoring safety problems like the tire flaw.
But the transportation secretary, Norman Y . Mineta acknowledged on Tuesday that there continued to be "intolerable" lapses.
