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April 27, 2015
Editor's note: due to technical difficulties, the Hotline was not published on Friday, April 24. We apologize for the inconvenience. Volunteers representing some 28,000 members nationwide of the National Association of Railroad Passengers visited more 200 congressional offices April 21 during NARP’s annual Day on the Hill, pressing Congress to support and improve the multi-year rail authorizatio...
April 17, 2015
Work begins on ADA-Compliant Platform Device Michigan-based engineering firm RLE International, Inc. has developed an Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant transition platform that mitigates the gap between Amtrak passenger rail cars and boarding platforms. A prototype of the setback level boarding platform will be installed at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, Amtrak station in early July 2015, with t...
April 10, 2015
NARP President Jim Mathews takes part in Stand Up For Transportation Day while riding RTD's light-rail line in Denver, Colorado.American Public Transportation Association’s Stand Up For Transportation day was a rousing success, with events in hundreds of communities advocating for Congress to fulfill their duty and help build a truly 21st Century transportation system in America. The group als...
April 3, 2015
DOT’s Foxx Urges Congress to Work With Administration to Pass Transportation Bill Congress and the Obama administration should work together to pass the president’s proposed $478 billion, six-year reauthorization for transportation funding instead of arguing over the bill, said Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx during a Playbook event hosted by Politico. The proposal prov...
March 27, 2015
Support Stand Up 4 Transportation Day on April 9 The Stand Up 4 Transportation coalition is urging Congress to pay for a long-term investment in the nation’s transportation infrastructure under the fiscal year 2016 budget for the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (THUD). To that end, NARP is among a group of organizations gathering across the country on April 9 t...