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Archive -- Rail Passengers Webinar Series: Heavy Rail Gets Green

Date

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 3:00 PM Wednesday, May 25, 2022 4:30 PM

Location

Zoom Event

REGISTER NOW!

Creating an environmentally sustainable transportation network in the U.S. will require a massive reconfiguration of the nation’s physical infrastructure. However, building this network will place its own stresses on the environment—through the construction of viaducts, electrical transmission systems, and other infrastructure elements.

These improvements will also need to navigate lengthy federal and state environmental reviews. This process has been misused by well-meaning environmental groups and abused by bad-faith opponents of passenger rail and transit. The result, however, is the same: delaying construction timelines by years and costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in unnecessary delays.

Join us on Wednesday, May 25th at 3pm Eastern for our webinar “Heavy Rail Gets Green: How Modern Passenger Train Systems Can Partner With the U.S. Environmental Movement”, where the Rail Passengers Association will explore these issues from an advocacy perspective. We’ll talk with the people who are actually building cutting-edge passenger rail corridors, learn how they’re using advances in engineering to mitigate the environmental impact of construction, and discuss strategies to educate stakeholders to ensure these critical projects can move forward.


We’ll be joined by:

  • Margaret Cederoth, Director of Planning and Sustainability, California High-Speed Rail Association

  • Dr. Christina Aiello, Wildlife Ecologist and Postdoctoral Fellow, Oregon State University

  • Catherine Dobbs, Senior Environmental Project Manager, HDR (INVITED)


The Zoom link will be sent to you the day before the event.

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Registration will close Monday, May 23rd at Midnight eastern. Space, as always, is limited to 475 participants, so reserve your spot now.

Plan on attending? Submit your questions! Send in your topic specific questions to Madison Butler at [email protected] with the subject line "Environment Webinar" to be answered during the event. Questions will be due by Friday, May 20th. w90STirywiCociLXI6h9EDoFT5zlt_0sAGclRcpBaQ3elQac9uQAv9tnNy9HY23oNr5ih6N2tmxt6j21rNLzMOVWjoydNKoZaTZn_RPiWyea6hvTNHwDVBrrzZDqcTjH6gD7Z1My

Miss out on our past events? You can watch them on our YouTube channel or through our website at railpassengers.org/webinars