CRA Meeting
The first CRA meeting of the month will be on Zoom, October 2 at 5pm Pacific Time. The agenda and link will be sent to the mail list. If you need the link, email admin@taw.
The UP-NS merger application is live at Surface Transportation Board. CRA opposes this merger. There are many ways in which this merger will have a bad outcome. Wall Street activist investors will be thrilled, however. Our colleagues at Solutionary Rail and Public Rail Now have an ongoing campaign that allows comments on the merger to be made anonymously to Surface Transportation Board.
The 2027 Legislative Session is about to begin. CRA, along with the other members of the Rail Can’t Wait Coalition have developed our Legislative Priorities, the list of things that rail transportation needs that we would like legislators to fund and enable.
The New Cascades Airo sets started service October 30. Trains will be introduced as they arrive from testing. Right now, you can see and ride them on Trains 503 and 508 between Seattle and Eugene and trains 516 and 519 between Portland and Vancouver BC.