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Archive -- Rail Passengers Maryland Membership Meeting
Date
Sunday, March 31, 2019 Sunday, March 31, 2019
Location
True Respite Brewing Company 7301 Calhoun Place, Suite 600 Rockville MD 20855
Please join us for the initial Membership Meeting of Rail Passengers Maryland!
We’ll be discussing organizational details such as Election of Officers, our relationship to our parent organization, and how we can get things done with increased focus on issues specific to Maryland and the surrounding states.
This meeting will is being held to coincide with the start of the RailNation DC Spring Washington Advocacy Summit.
Our aim is to have our meetings be more Happy Hour than Businiess Meeting, and to this end this first meeting will be held at True Respite Brewing Company in Rockville, MD.
True Respite Brewing Company
7301 Calhoun Place, Suite 600
Rockville, MD 20855
The closest Metro station is Shady Grove, on the Red Line. From there, it is a 10 minutes on the Ride-On Number 59 Bus to Calhoun Drive. Or, it's a 10 minute Uber/Lyft ride . And you can call Curt Harpold at 703-795-6977 and we’ll dispatch someone to pick you up!
(For Full Disclosure: Curt is one of the owners of the brewery, as well as a member of the Executive committee)
For More Information Contact:
- Harvard Morehead, Executive Committee, Montgomery County, Rail Passengers Maryland - [email protected]
- Curt Harpold, Executive Committee, Montgomery County, Rail PassengersMaryland - [email protected]
- Jim Smith, Executive Committee, Baltimore County, Rail Passengers Maryland - [email protected]
Rail Passengers Maryland is part of the Rail Passengers Association, America's leading passenger rail advocacy organization.
Banner Photo - Rockville Station in the early 1900's
"The National Association of Railroad Passengers has done yeoman work over the years and in fact if it weren’t for NARP, I'd be surprised if Amtrak were still in possession of as a large a network as they have. So they've done good work, they're very good on the factual case."
Robert Gallamore, Director of Transportation Center at Northwestern University and former Federal Railroad Administration official, Director of Transportation Center at Northwestern University
November 17, 2005, on The Leonard Lopate Show (with guest host Chris Bannon), WNYC New York.