Karen Christensen, founder and president of the Train Campaign, writes: I cannot send this email without saying something about my grief over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the racism that continues to haunt and damage our country. W. E. B. Du Bois grew up in Great Barrington, the small town where I live and [...]
Links to legislators are below. Be sure to add your full name and local address. Your voice counts whether you are a voter, a resident, or a second-home owner or renter. Click here to write to Senator Adam Hind Click here to write to Rep. Smitty Pignatelli Click here to write to Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier Click [...]
Click HERE to submit your comment about what federal transportation priorities should be. Here are some details about this call for comment from the US Department of Transportation. Its title is Request for Information: Rural Opportunities to Use Transportation for Economic Success. This notice requests comments on unmet transportation infrastructure needs in rural transportation, barriers that rural [...]
Friday, 2 March 2018, is the deadline for writing to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation about your desire for train service in Berkshire County. It's easy: click on one of the links below in the blue "letter" boxes. An email will open in your email browser when you click the links below. Anyone who cares [...]
I’m just back from China where I took the high-speed train from Shanghai to Beijing, and am writing to ask for you to help raise the profile of the Housatonic passenger rail line with the US Secretary of Transportation and our state legislators. Federal funding could play a huge role in moving the project forward, [...]
Governor Dannel Malloy’s transportation plan for Connecticut, announced last month, has two major spending components - over five years and over thirty years. What it doesn't specify is a clear funding plan to pay for all the projects in either time period, and instead establishes a commission to recommend a method for paying for the [...]
Your emails, tweets, and phone calls count this week as the Connecticut Transportation Committee again considers H.B. 6343. The text below can be copied, pasted, and adapted for your particular circumstances. To: tratestimony@cga.ct.gov; tony.guerrera@cga.ct.gov; toni.boucher@cga.ct.gov; info@traincampaign.org Subject: H.B. 6343: An act concerning the restoration of the Housatonic Railroad line Dear Representative Guerrera and distinguished members of the Transportation [...]
My name is Susan Clayton, a member of North Canaan's Board of Selectmen, here today in support of a bill H.B. 6343, on behalf of our community's efforts, calling for restoration of these State rails leased by Housatonic Railroad, whose freight operation is critical to North Canaan's economy. Housatonic Railroad currently serves two of North [...]
We've been receiving copies of your terrific emails to the Transportation Committee of the CT General Assembly and have permission to share one, from Nat Karns, that gives a succinct history of the project as well as a compelling plea for action. Feel free to draw on these ideas as you write your own email [...]
In CT, Dannel Malloy won a tight race and has a lot on his plate. Here's how to congratulate him and remind him that NWCT needs his support to Bring Back the Trains: The Honorable Dannel Malloy Email: malloy.office@ct.gov The State Capitol, 210 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 566-4840 Twitter: @DanMalloyCT In MA, let’s [...]
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