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APTA Holds Fifth High-Speed Rail Policy Forum

Al Engel, chair of APTA’s High-Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail Committee, welcomed approximately 100 attendees to APTA’s Fifth Annual High-Speed Rail Policy Forum during the association’s Industry Leadership Summit in Washington, DC.

Engel said the future of Americans’ quality of life is not predestined, but rather is shaped by the public and private investment choices we as a society make, especially about our transportation assets. How much we invest and how we allocate scarce resources among the various modes “will greatly influence the quality of service and the capacity available for a growing population,” he added.

APTA Chair David M. Stackrow Sr. stressed how high-performance passenger rail needs to be an element of an integrated mobility network and noted that it is a mode that depends on new technologies and new workforce skills. Passenger rail issues, he told the audience, are part of APTA’s advocacy efforts and will be part of APTA’s recommendations for reauthorization of the federal FAST Act, which expires in 2020. “The FAST Act created a Rail Title and our goal is to build on that accomplishment in the upcoming reauthorization,” he said.

From left: APTA Chair David M. Stackrow Sr., Al Engel and APTA President and CEO Paul P. Skoutelas.

APTA President and CEO Paul P. Skoutelas noted the many rail openings the country has seen in the past year, including Connecticut’s Hartford Line serving New Haven, Hartford and Springfield, MA; service in the Seattle-Portland corridor; South Florida’s Brightline Corridor; progress on the privately funded Texas-Central line linking Dallas and Houston; and considerable progress in other states including Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin.

During the forum, attendees and panelists also discussed such topics as reaching out to elected officials regarding projects, funding and operating intercity rail programs, and the federal Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement and FAST acts.

To view a video of this and other High-Speed Rail Policy Forum sessions, click here.

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