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Kansas Rail Caucus Meeting as Mayor's Present (Zoom) March 10, 2021
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Northern Flyer Alliance Symposium – April 6, 2012
Theme: The Business Case for Passenger Rail
Symposium Agenda Click here
NARP Symposium Handout Click here
Symposium PowerPoint (Large 38.3 mb) Click here
Speaker Profiles Click here
Welcome by Councilman Scott Wagner Click here
Pat & Kris Larkin Click here
Chris Larson, President & CEO Larson Binkley, Inc. Click here
Joe Szabo, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration Click here
Derrick James, Amtrak Click here
Dennis Slimmer, KDOT Click here
Ross Capon, President & CEO, Natl Association of Railroad Passengers Click here
Pete Meitzner, Councilman, Wichita, Kansas Click here
Homer Nicholson, Mayor, Ponca City, Oklahoma Click here
Rick Harnish, Executive Dir Midwest High Speed Rail Association Click here
Stu Nicholson, Engage Public Affairs Click here
Due to technical difficulties, the rest of the speakers were not recorded.
Location: Kansas City’s Union Station Board Room
The NFA held a Symposium on April 6, 2012 at Kansas City’s Union Station. The purpose was to create a venue for public officials, business owners, community leaders, the medical community, Board of Regents, railroad interests and elected officials from several Midwest states to come together to discuss why passenger rail is so important to businesses, the medical community, and society, and why the expansion of passenger rail is a fiscally conservative approach to the nation’s transportation problems.
The Symposium featurde panelists from around the Midwest with expertise and business interest in passenger rail expansion. We had the following panel participants:
Federal Railroad Adminstration, Joe Szabo, Administrator
National Assoc. Railroad Passengers, Ross Capon, President and CEO
Wichita City Council Member, Pete Meitzner
KDOT, Dennis Slimmer, Chief of Transportation Planning
Midwest High Speed Rail, Rick Harnish, Executive Director
Amtrak, Derrick James, Director of Government Affairs
KS Rail Caucus Member, and business owner, Sen. Dick Kelsey
Past MIPRC Commissioner, and business owner Sen. Daryl Beall, Iowa
Mayor, Ponca City, Oklahoma, Homer Nicholson
Larson Binkley (engineering firm), Chris Larson, Pres. & CEO
Flint Hills Tourism, Pat & Kris Larkin
Kansas University, Professor Wally Meyer, Director of Entrepreneurship Programs
Engage Public Affairs, Stu Nicholson
Missouri Department of Transportation, Michele Teel
The audience consisted of public officials, business owners, community leaders, the medical community, Board of Regents, railroad interests and elected officials from the states of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Texas and Oklahoma.
Sponsored by:
Northern Flyer Alliance
Kansas Rail Caucus
With Support From:
Larson Binkley, Inc.
D&M Consulting Services
The United Transportation Union