Amtrak has announced details for the sixth annual National Train Day, held May 11 in more than 200 communities across America. “National Train Day invites communities big and small to share the importance of trains as a vital transportation option and engine of economic development and employment,” said Amtrak Chief Marketing Sales Officer Matt Hardison. The theme of this year’s Train Day is “Trains Matter,” and events across the nation will be organized to...
Press Release #13-05 March 13, 2013 Contact: Sean Jeans-Gail, 202-408-8362 The National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) has denounced a partisan political attack on a high-speed rail project that would connect southern California and Las Vegas with fast, safe, and convenient train service. The project would create new jobs and ease congestion on one of the nation’s premier travel corridors. Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) wrote to (http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=af2e546f-cce2-4653-9793-70ef55a79976) U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood attacking the...
NARP Members are now entitled to 10 percent off the best available fare on VIA Rail Canada (http://www.viarail.ca/en) trains across Canada—including Economy, Business, Sleeper and Sleeper Touring classes! Tickets must be purchased before December 31, 2013 and travel must take place before March 31, 2014. Click here to learn how to obtain the discount and read terms conditions (http://narprail.org/members/members-only/2052-discountinstructions#via) (member login required). During a March 5 hearing, “Freight and Passenger Rail in America’s Transportation System,” held by the Railroads...
Long Distance Trains: A Foundation for National Mobility (resources/white-papers/2083-longdistancepaper), a white paper by NARP and the Midwest High-Speed Rail Association (http://www.midwesthsr.org/), aims to correct common misconceptions about Amtrak's national network of overnight trains and to demonstrate the valuable role they play in connecting small towns and rural areas to larger cities, with multiple city-pair "corridors" served by one highly productive train. NARP believes that the long distance trains should remain a federal responsibility. which was reaffirmed...
The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program released a paper this week that takes a closer look at America’s passenger rail renaissance, identifying passenger rail travel between metropolitan areas as an important source of ridership growth, and a fertile ground for future capacity expansion. While it’s no secret that Amtrak’s ridership has skyrocketed in the last decade, carrying a record 31.2 million riders in FY 2012, A New Alignment: Strengthening America’s Commitment to Passenger Rail (http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Reports/2013/03/01%20passenger%20rail%20puentes%20tomer/passenger%20rail%20puentes%20tomer.pdf) does...
Long Distance Trains: A Foundation for National Mobility, a white paper by NARP and the Midwest High-Speed Rail Association, aims to correct common misconceptions about Amtrak's national network of overnight trains and to demonstrate the valuable role they play in connecting small towns and rural areas to larger cities, with multiple city-pair "corridors" served by one highly productive train.
NARP believes that the long distance trains should remain a federal responsibility. which was reaffirmed in the 2008 law. We believe connecting all parts of the country with reliable, affordable passenger train service is an important federal policy objective.
The National Association of Railroad Passengers needs to grow its membership and we're giving you a special incentive to help -- our first ever New Member and Member-Get-A-Member Drawing! New deadline: April 8, 2013.