Attend your NARP Regional Meeting!

Regional meetings for NARP members begin this weekend.  These meetings are a great way to meet other rail advocates, hear informative speakers, and also meet NARP staff, officers and directors.  Here’s a schedule of upcoming NARP membership meetings, with confirmed speakers.  Full details on each meeting can be found on the Events Calendar on the main NARP website.

March 10
NARP Region 2 (New York State): Schenectady, NY
Ross Capon, Executive Director - NARP, Rick Harnish, Executive Director – Midwest High Speed Rail Association, Emmett Fremaux - Amtrak Vice President, Marketing and Product Management

March 17
NARP Region 12 (California, Nevada, and Hawaii): Los Angeles, CA
NARP Executive Director Ross Capon, Amtrak President and CEO Alex Kummant, Michael Dukakis, former Governor of Massachusetts & former Amtrak Board Member, Dan Leavitt, Assistant Executive Director, California High Speed Rail Authority

NARP Region 4 (Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, D.C.): Baltimore, MD
George Chilson, NARP President; Bob Stewart, NARP Vice President-Southeast; Emmett Fremaux, Amtrak Vice President, Marketing and Product Management; Jim Hoover, Director, MARC Train/MTA Commuter Bus Services; Dennis Larson, Director of Railway and Equipment Services, VRE; and Webb Smedley, Chairman, Coalition to Build the Purple Line

NARP Region 8 (Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Montana): Tacoma, WA
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (invited), Jonathan Hutchison, Amtrak Government Affairs Director-West, Scott Witt, Freight Multimodal Manager, WashDOT, NARP Assistant Director David Johnson

March 24
NARP Region 6 and 7 (Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, North Dakota and Minnesota): Chicago, IL
NARP President George Chilson, Surface Transportation Policy Partnership President Anne Canby, Alfred Runte will be signing copies of his book: “Allies of the Earth.”

March 31
NARP Region 5 (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, and the Virgin Islands): Nashville, TN
NARP Executive Director Ross B. Capon

NARP Region 10 (Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming): Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha, NE)
George Chilson, NARP President

NARP Region 1 (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusettes, Rhode Island, and Connecticut): Boston, MA
Congressman Steven F. Lynch (D-9, MA) (Invited),  David Johnson, Assistant Director, NARP, Wayne Davis, Vice President, NARP, Reports from around New England from each of the other NARP Regional Directors.

April 21
NARP Region 9 (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas): Galveston, TX

May 12
NARP Region 3 (Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey): Harrisburg, PA
NARP Assistant Director David Johnson