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Archive -- Joint NARP Mid-Atlantic South Division / VARP 2017 Meeting
Date
Saturday, April 1, 2017 Saturday, April 1, 2017
Location
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Saturday, April 1, 2017
11:30am - 3:30pm
Joe Theismann’s Restaurant
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Diagonal Road - Alexandria, VA (across from the King Street Metro station, which is adjacent to the Amtrak station)
- The meeting is scheduled to permit travel by Amtrak trains 20 and 88 in the morning and 19 and 147 in the afternoon.
Planned Presentations:
- Jim Mathews - President & CEO - National Association of Railroad Passengers - National Update
- Jennifer Mitchell - Director, Virginia Dept. of Rail and Public Transportation - Virginia Dept. of Rail and Public Transportation in the McAuliffe Era,
- Dept. of Rail and Public Transportation recommendations for DC-Richmond rail
- The Federal Railroad Administration’s Northeast Corridor Report
- Chuck Riecks - Vice-Chair - NARP - The Daily Cardinal Campaign
- Rafi Guroian - VARP Member - Mainstreaming passenger rail planning
Complete Meeting Information
"When [NARP] comes to Washington, you help embolden us in our efforts to continue the progress for passenger rail. And not just on the Northeast Corridor. All over America! High-speed rail, passenger rail is coming to America, thanks to a lot of your efforts! We’re partners in this. ... You are the ones that are going to make this happen. Do not be dissuaded by the naysayers. There are thousands of people all over America who are for passenger rail and you represent the best of what America is about!"
Secretary Ray LaHood, U.S. Department of Transportation
2012 NARP Spring Council Meeting