27th Annual Meeting of the Empire State Passengers Association
and the National Association of Railroad Passengers, Region II
9:33 PM EST on February 14, 2007
and the National Association of Railroad Passengers, Region II
Confirmed Speakers:
- Rick Harnish, Executive Director, Midwest High Speed Rail Association
- Ross B. Capon, Executive Director, National Association of Railroad Passengers
Other guests from Amtrak, the State and the rail industry have been invited.
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.
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