Save Missouri’s 
Passenger Trains!

State budget crisis threatens to end Kansas City – Jefferson City– St. Louis Trains 

•	The Ann Rutledge and Kansas City/ St. Louis Mules provide an important transportation service. 

•	The trains serve 10 cities, creating 100 possible trips to popular attractions such as Kansas City’s Union Station, the Arch, Hermann’s bed & breakfasts, Central Missouri State Univ., Washington, the State Fair & Capitol.  

Missourians like their passenger trains

•	Travelers give it an  8.4 on a 1-10 scale. 

•	Discontinuing service would harm chances of bringing high-speed rail to Missouri.
 
•	25% of riders are professional or managerial.
•	19% are college students
•	18% of passengers are retired. 

•	Without the train, most passengers (67%) would drive– further crowding congested I-70 and U.S. Highway 50. Only 7% would take the bus;  4% would not travel.

•	208,000 people rode the trains in 2001.

•	MO highways are rated nation’s third worst.
•	Rebuilding and widening Interstate 70 is projected to cost $3 billion.  That could run the  $6 million a year trains - a mere .02% of the I-70 project – for 500 years.

•	Rail travel is a valued link in the transportation system for a large number of people, according to a recent MODOT-funded train service study. 

•	The service is highly beneficial to the state – providing a fairly low-cost alternative highly valued by a significant portion (15%) of the population.  

•	“The cost-benefit analysis finds that benefits to the residents of the state of Missouri exceed its public cost.”

Write your State Lawmakers and tell them to 
Save Missouri’s Rail Passenger Service!

Governor Bob Holden 
Missouri Capitol Building, Room 218, PO Box 720 
Jefferson City, MO 65102-0720  
(573) 751-3222   FAX: (573) 751-1495
http://www.gov.state.mo.us/mail1.htm (e-mail link)

State Senate/ House of Representatives 
State Capitol Building 
201 West Capitol Avenue 
Jefferson City MO 65101

Missouri Dept. of Transportation 
Box 270  Jefferson City, MO 65102
888-275-6636	comments@mail.modot.state.mo.us

http://www.moga.state.mo.us/

Find your state representative and senator at:
http://www.senate.state.mo.us/zipcode/leg_lookup.htm

For information on how you can help, visit the Missouri-Kansas Rail Passenger Coalition Web site:
http://www.trainweb.org/moksrail/    Box 1183,  Mission, Kansas 66222-0183 ohlemeier@netzero.net