A Unified Northeast Corridor

"Northeastern states need to collaborate on regional initiatives to compete globally. Projected to grow by 18 million people in the next decades, the Northeast states need to coalesce, with joint goals and programs, if the region is to compete globally and offer an attractive place to live and work. The chief competition is no longer simply with the Midwest or California. Rather, it is with regions ranging from China's Pearl River Delta to Europe's London-to-Milan corridor...he compelling new agenda, defined at Philadelphia: how these Northeastern states coalesce to create and expand state-of-the-art transportation choices, reduce perilous greenhouse gas emissions, and protect such environmental treasures, critical to the region's survival"