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Joint WashARP/AORTA Olympic Winter 2002 Games Resolution
Mr. Jeff Agras, Transportation Management
Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce
2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Committee
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Nagano Winter Games gave Americans a chance to marvel at how Japan put its technical expertise and planning to work in providing high quality Bullet Train service to get people to/from the Winter Olympics. With passenger rail experiencing a renaissance in the West, the 2002 Winter Olympics give us all a unique opportunity to make a meaningful improvement to non-highway options for the throngs wanting to experience the Games in Salt Lake City.
The National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP), Washington Association of Rail Passengers (WashARP) and the Association of Oregon Rail and Transit Advocates (AORTA) are all groups that represent rail users and promoters. At their recent NARP Region VIII Convention in Seattle, the 100+ NARP, WashARP and AORTA members there assembled UNANIMOUSLY passed the following Resolution (included in plain text below and attached as a Word 6.0 document) in the interest of restoring service in the Pioneer and Desert Wind corridors through Salt Lake City.
Our group would like to work with your organizations to see that this service is well-established by the time the 2002 Winter Olympics take place. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information.
Sincerely,Aloha Wyse, President AORTA
Fred Nussbaum, Past President AORTA
Chuck Mott, President WashARP
Jim Hamre, Region VIII Representative, NARP
Whereas the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) is committed to a national system of rail passenger service tying together high-speed corridors with an expanded long distance trains network; and
Whereas AMTRAK can become such a service only through frequency and coverage expansion of the present system;
Now, therefore, be it resolved that this NARP Region 8 assembly urge the National Association of Railroad Passengers to actively and forcefully intervene, so that the U.S. Congress upholds its commitments (implied in the Tax Payer Relief and Amtrak Reform and Accountability Acts of 1997) to multi- year, predictable resources designed to ensure the expansion of the AMTRAK national rail passenger network in both coverage and frequencies of service. In particular:
A) One priority to our Region is restoration of at least daily passenger service connecting the Pacific Northwest with Idaho and Utah serving Seattle, Portland, Boise and Salt Lake City and intermediate points, providing convenient and reliable connections with all other Amtrak service stopping at Salt Lake City, especially that operating to and from points east; and
B) A related priority for Western states is restoration of at least daily rail passenger service between the Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City, providing convenient and reliable connections with all other Amtrak service stopping at Salt Lake City, especially that operating to and from points east. This assembly will work cooperatively with the NARP Regions 10 and 12, representing the states of California, Nevada and Utah, to see that this is accomplished.
C) These daily rail passenger service connections should be restored as soon as possible, so as to be well-established by the year 2002, the year of the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
D) Our country, which prides itself on providing choices and which sets an example for the rest of the world, surely must offer transportation choices in these and other corridors, besides flying or driving freeways. Viable rail transport must be an ingredient.
Adopted in Seattle, Washington on this 21st day of March 1998, as witnessed by:
Jim Hamre for NARP Region VIIIChuck Mott for WashARP
Aloha Wyse for AORTA
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