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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Fyi – Great news! Lawrence, Kansas city leaders are getting all aboard
so to speak! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Thoughtful letters to our respective elected city and state leaders
on the issue of passenger, commuter train service will be useful/helpful in
encouraging this kind of action for Oklahoma cities & towns. Keep writing!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Shauna, OKC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> passrailok@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:passrailok@yahoogroups.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>sfrr@aol.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> passrailok@yahoogroups.com; Southwest_Chief@yahoogroups.com;
heartland_flyer@yahoogroups.com; MOKSRail@yahoogroups.com; TXARP@googlegroups.com;
centralpassengerrail@yahoogroups.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [passrailok] [NFlyerA] Heartland Flyer - Freight Rail -
Lawrence, KS Santa Fe Depot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Heartland Flyer Ridership
Increases</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91868747&ft=1&f=1001"
target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91868747&ft=1&f=1001</a><br>
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Freight Rail Efficiency<br>
<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91853780"
target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91853780</a><br>
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City of Lawrence Wants to Buy Santa Fe depot...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>City wants to buy depot</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/jun/25/city_wants_buy_depot/"
target="_blank">http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/jun/25/city_wants_buy_depot/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For a dollar,
a majority of city commissioners are definitely interested in buying the
deteriorating 1950s-era Burlington Northern Santa Fe Depot.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Commissioners
on Tuesday took the first step toward negotiating a low-cost purchase of the
east Lawrence depot from the railroad, despite concerns that a tight city
budget would make it difficult to undertake what is expected to be a several
hundred thousand dollar renovation of the building.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“I think it
would be a shortsighted view to say we can’t do this right now,” City
Commissioner Sue Hack said. “Well, we’re not going to get it done by the
weekend, but we can get on the path to get it done.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Commissioners
on a 4-1 vote directed staff to begin discussions with the railroad, which has
expressed an interest in selling the depot to the city for $1. Commissioner Rob
Chestnut was the lone commissioner to vote against the issue.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Chestnut said
he was concerned that taking over ownership of the depot would amount to an
implicit commitment by the city to restore the building, which sits at the
corner of Seventh and New Jersey streets. He said he was disappointed the
railroad hadn’t taken better care of the building.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Staff members
said repairs and renovation could be expensive. A preliminary analysis
estimated it could cost about $400,000 to bring the building into compliance
with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and upward of $100,000 for several
repairs such as fixing a leaky roof. It is also estimated to cost the city
about $60,000 a year for routine maintenance and operational costs.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“I would love
to restore another depot,” said City Manager David Corliss, who was part of a
team that restored the Union Pacific Depot in North Lawrence in the 1990s. “But
it is that ‘wants versus wallets’ issue that is going to keep coming back to
us.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Commissioners,
though, received about an hour’s worth of public comment urging them to take
action on the building. A small community group — dubbed Depot Redux — has
formed to build support for the project. Leaders of the group said reasons to
proceed are numerous: Rail travel is better for the environment; the 1956
building is a good example of post-World War II architecture; and the city
could benefit economically from having an attractive depot just three blocks
from downtown.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“There are
people from all over the state, all over the country who walk through those
doors,” said Marty Kennedy, a former city commissioner who serves as the
volunteer who unlocks the station prior to the 5:50 a.m. arrival of the morning
train. “This is the first impression they have of Lawrence.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About 3,700
customers a year use the Lawrence depot, Amtrak officials said. Currently the
westbound Southwest Chief stops after midnight and the eastbound Southwest
Chief a few hours later. But that number could increase to about 14,000 if a
proposal to add new rail service between Kansas City and Oklahoma City
materializes.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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