NARP Issues Statement to Surface Transportation Board on Texas Central Initiative

For Immediate Release (#16-13) Contact: Robert Brady – (202) 680-4951 Private Capital Has Important Role in Building Transportation Infrastructure Washington, D.C. – On May 24, 2015, Jim Mathews, President and CEO of the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP), released a letter to members of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) in support of the Texas Central high-speed rail project. As an advocacy group working on behalf of more than 29,000 members, and more than 40 million fare-paying passengers nationwide, NARP sees the high-speed rail project between Dallas and Houston as having a lasting impact on the rail system and multimodal connectivity in the U.S. “NARP believes the Texas Central initiative is an important demonstration of the role private capital can and must play in building our new transportation economy, and is thus an important private project of national significance, introducing a new high-

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