Biography

I grew up in Pine Ridge, about one mile from the Fairfax Hospital, in Fairfax County, Virginia. In about 1952, I remember traveling on the Washington and Old Dominion (W&OD) Railroad (the "Virginia Creeper") from Falls Church to Roslyn. This train ran from Bluemont to Roslyn and Alexandria, VA, with a branch to Great Falls, which ceased operations earlier. I graduated from Fairfax High School (1963), the College of William and Mary, BS, Biology (1968) and the University of Connecticut, MS, Zoology (1974).
I spent a year (1966-1967) working for the Smithsonian Institution in Venezuela collecting mammals and parasites. I was in the US Army (1969-1971) and spent a year in Japan, outside Toyko. That was first experience with a well run train system and with a ride on their Bullet Train, which traveled at 130 mph at the time. I have worked for the Office of Pesticide Programs at the Environmental Protection Agency for 36 years (1973 to 2009). During that period, I have ridden the Virginia Railway Express (VRE), a Washington/Virginia commuter rail system since its beginning in 1992. Now I am paying more interest in Amtrak and want to stimulate ridership and new service, especially in Virginia. I am a member of the Virginia Association of Railway Patrons (VARP), www.varprail.org, which has been promoting passenger rail in the state for 30 years and a member of Cvillerail, www.Cvillerail.org, which was major reason for the establishment of the new Amtrak Train to Lynchburg, the subject of this blog.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Who knows why Amtrak does not post the Lynchburg Flyer Schedule on its Website?

Does anyone have any theories why Amtrak does not post the colorful promotional Flyer and Schedule on its website where it has posted all of its other flyers, schedules, and promotional material?

Posting the Flyer costs Amtrak nothing and reaches anyone in the world with a computer and internet connection, making it the most cost effective means of advertising the first subsidized train in Virginia.

The State of Virginia gave Amtrak $23,000 to promote the new Lynchburg Train. What is the problem about posting the Flyer on its website for free.

For the past three (3) months, I have been asking Amtrak to post the Flyer but, to date, have received no response.

Can anyone offer a suggestion why the Flyer has been absent from its website since the beginning of the service on October 1, 2009?


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