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Delayed rail cars should prompt review of T’s contract procedures

  April 08, 2012

When, in early 2008, the MBTA decided to spend $190 million on an untested Korean firm to build 75 desperately needed commuter-rail cars, there were more red flags than at a May Day parade at the Kremlin, circa 1982. The firm, Hyundai Rotem, had yet to open a US plant, a federal requirement for the contract. It hadn’t navigated the complicated US safety requirements that foiled many other overseas firms seeking to enter the American market.

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