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Save Missouri's Passenger Trains!

Help Save Missouri’s

Passenger Trains!

 

State budget crisis threatens to end one of the two Kansas City St. Louis trains


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

 

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

Important Facts on Missouri Passenger Train Service:

 

·         A survey found the service well liked, with travelers giving 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.

·         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 - Tell Them to Save Missouri's Rail Passenger Trains!

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)

  Missouri Dept. of Transportation


Box 270  Jefferson City, MO 65102

888-275-6636         comments@mail.modot.state.mo.us

     
State Senate/ House of Representatives

State Capitol Building

201 West Capitol Avenue

Jefferson City MO 65101

  http://www.moga.state.mo.us/

 
House Transportation Committee:
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills02/commit02/com041.htm

 

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