The Conservative Case for Intercity & Higher Speed Passenger Rail

William S. Lind
Director, American Conservative Center for Public Transportation

When: March 30, 2011, 5:30-7:30pm | Where: The Colony Club, 10 E. Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219

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Event Media:
Richmond Times Dispatch, Conservative Argues for Faster Intercity Passenger Rail Service, March 31, 2011
Virginian Pilot, Conservative Makes Case for Rail, April 3, 2011

"More passenger trains, more Amtrak trains, on more routes, more trains on existing routes, running at speeds that make the time competitive with the automobile...we want trains running at speeds of up to 110 miles an hour — all of which we had with steam trains in the 1930s.“  William Lind

About William S. Lind, is Director of American Conservative Center for Public Transportation, and  was formally the Director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation. He is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and worked as a legislative aide for armed services for Senator Robert Taft, Jr., of Ohio from 1973 through 1976 and held a similar position with Senator Gary Hart of Colorado from 1977 through 1986. Mr. Lind along with Paul Weyrich co-authored the book Moving Minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation.