Tag: amtrak
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Funding for Passenger Rail – The Ask
I haven’t posted for a minute because I have several irons in the fire. One of them involves a series of letters to the Arkansas Congressional Delegation asking for full funding for Amtrak, The Investment in Infrastructure and Jobs Act, and passing the new American High Speed Rail Act HB 7600. I am posting my…
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Why I Prefer Rail
Recently we learned that Ozark Regional Transit Authority wants to build a Bus Rapid Transit System. A bus system that offers by definition frequent (every fifteen minutes) fast buses linking NWA’s cities. There are roughly 35 miles between Fayetteville and Bentonville so that is likely to be about the length of the BRT. These systems…
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RailNation:DC 2024 Recap
This Wednesday RailNation:DC 2024 finished up. Here is a brief report. Here is the main take away I got from attending RailNation:DC 2024. Supporting groups like Rail Passengers Association and NWA GO work to get things done. When Jim Matthews was elected President of RPA in 2014 no one wanted to talk to them. But…
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Policy Initiatives 2024
NWA GO is an advocacy organization, as well as a research, and education organization. We have a number of policy initiatives we support. If you are a candidate for office we hope you will read this post and set your policy goals accordingly. Then let us know. We want to let our members know who…
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Survey of the ArDOT State Wide Rail Plan
The ArDOT State Rail Plan Survey is here and there is nothing else more important for us to do than to fill out our own answers. And get everyone we know, and know to be onboard with our goals, to fill it out too. Linked below is the State Rail Plan Survey in English and…
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Proposed Passenger Rail Map for Arkansas
One of the reasons I write so much about passenger trains is that Arkansas is in a passenger train desert. I have said this before but I keep coming back to it because most of my readers have no frame of reference for a state wide passenger rail plan. Early one morning while I was…
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