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Archive -- All Aboard Ohio Fall Meeting
Date
Saturday, September 28, 2019 9:00 AM Saturday, September 28, 2019 3:30 PM
Location
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission - Suite 100 111 Liberty Street Columbus OH 43215
Location: Scioto Meeting Room at the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission offices - 111 Liberty Street, Columbus, OH
Doors open at 9:00 AM
9:00am - 9:30am - Refreshments and Social Period
9:45am - Program Begins
Presentations:
- Stu Nicholson / Larry Robertson, All Aboard Ohio "Brief history of passenger rail service in Columbus"
- Patrick Harris, Director of Government Affairs, Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) "COTA's long-range plans and projects"
- Josh Lapp, President, Transit Columbus "Columbus - Local transit levy initiative"
- Thea Walsh / Dina Lopez, MORPC planning team "Update on Pittsburgh-Columbus-Chicago Rapid Speed Transportation Initiative"
- Matt Dietrich, Executive Director, Ohio Rail Development Commission "Update on State of Ohio rail plans and projects"
- Laura Kliewer, Executive Director, Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission "Update on Midwest passenger rail projects and regional rail plan"
The event will end around 3:30 PM
Registration: $25 per AAO member; $35 per non-member and includes 2020 AAO membership
- Admission includes a break refreshments and a box lunch.
- This event is open to the public, but registration is required.
Questions may be directed to [email protected]
All Aboard Ohio extends its thanks to MORPC for being the host site.
"The support from the Rail Passengers Association, and from all of you individually, has been incredibly important to Amtrak throughout our history and especially so during the last trying year."
Bill Flynn, Amtrak CEO
April 19, 2021, speaking to attendees at the Rail Passengers Virtual Spring Advocacy Conference