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RailPAC Opposed AB 1699, the Anti-Push-Pull legislation
Below are three documents RailPAC published which helped defeat this legislation on June 27. Grade Crossing Basics Commentary by Noel Braymer The high cost of grade separation makes it impossible to fully grade separate all rail crossings in California, let alone the United States. Not all grade crossings are the same. Modern grade crossing protection…
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Passenger Train Service To The Coachella Valley
RailPAC Policy, June, 2006. Story by Paul Dyson, RailPAC President — RailPAC has long advocated the extension of Southern California regional passenger services to the Coachella Valley, and indeed into the Imperial Valley and to Yuma and Phoenix. The line is an Amtrak route and so the tracks are maintained to passenger standards. However, the…
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What Amtrak Should Be Doing to Improve its Food Service Revenue
SPECIAL REPORT — Food and beverage service on Amtrak doesn’t have to be something akin to a national shame. It has the potential to be pleasant, profitable, and nourishing. It has the potential to be good, rather than a necessity begrudgingly dished out by a common carrier with no ambition for good passenger service. There…
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RailPAC Endorses S. 1516
The Board of Directors of RailPAC, the Rail Passenger Association of California, enthusiastically endorses the bipartisan SB 1516. (Full text on Thomas at the Library of Congress) Its official title, beyond Senate Bill 1516, is the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2005. Some call it PRIIA 2005, and others are simply calling it…
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RailPAC Endorses the Laney Plan for Amtrak with a few Reservations
Rail Passenger Association of California Board of Directors, Adopted June 4, 2005. Early arrivals at the RailPAC meeting on June 4 at JLS in Oakland listen to guest Gene Skoropowski, Managing Director of the Capitol Corridor and a NARP director. Left to right around the table: Bill Lindley, RailPAC director/website designer and Treasurer of the…