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  • Provided material support, communications, and other assistance as requested to Hoosiers for Passenger Rail in its successful effort to win state funding to preserve Amtrak’s Hoosier State, threatened by the 2008 Passenger Rail Investment & Improvement Act’s requirement for more state funding for Amtrak routes of 750 or fewer miles.
  • Provided material support, communications, and other assistance as requested to Western Pennsylvanians for Passenger Rail in its successful effort to win state funding to preserve Amtrak’s Pennsylvanian, threatened by the 2008 Passenger Rail Investment & Improvement Act’s requirement for more state funding for Amtrak routes of 750 or fewer miles.
  • Worked on campaign to restore passenger rail service to the Gulf Coast, helping publicize and organize rallies in Tallahassee, spearheaded by NARP member Bart Bibler.
  • 2011-2013: Co-hosted three consecutive Transportation and Infrastructure Conventions (in DC) and Transportation and Infrastructure Summits (in Irving, TX), including two consecutive speaking engagements by Chairman Bob Stewart in Irving.
  • April 2011: NARP inaugurates the Academic Award, which has since been presented to three leading intellectuals in the public transportation field: Chris Barkan, Vukan Vuchic and Anthony Perl.
  • March 2010: Assisted member Allan Thomas in preparing testimony for a hearing of the New Orleans City Council’s Economic Development Committee regarding restoration of New Orleans-Florida Amtrak service.
  • Joined with local advocates to successfully push the development of Downeasterservice to Freeport and Brunswick, ME, and a Northeast Regional train to Norfolk, VA.
  • NARP joined many other national and state advocacy groups to encourage people throughout the country to tell their California friends to call their legislators. Government officials are finally finding solutions to the challenges that have discouraged high-speed rail development for so long. A single-seat, Los Angeles-San Francisco ride is planned thanks to use of existing tracks in the terminal cities.