Hotline #1,002: NARP Pushes Back on Attack on Caltrain Electrification; Trump Discusses HSR...

Check Out Our Newest Hotline! NARP thanks those members who have sent in industry-related news stories, op-eds, editorials, or letters to the editor from your communities. We include them in our social media efforts, along with the weekly Hotline. Please send your news items to Bob Brady, bbrady@xenophonstrategies.com, and we will continue to share it with the membership. We also ask members to send events that we can put on the website, here. And please follow NARP on Facebook and Twitter. To counter attacks on high-speed rail by California GOP members in a letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, NARP President Jim Mathews wrote Chao supporting the Caltrain Electrification Project and highlighting the job-creating power of investing in high-speed rail. “[T]he Peninsula Corridor Electrification Project… [provides] a critical alternative to 65,000 daily rail commuters along the heavily congested U.S. 101 freeway,” wrote Mathews.

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