City Club Missoula – Passenger Rail Service For Bitterroot-Missoula Corridor, 6/16. Missoula

2006-06-16 11:30:00

Governor’s Room, Florence Building, 111 N. Higgins, Missoula, MT

Contact: RSVP by June 12 to [email protected], 406-546-6643

Passenger rail service between Missoula and the
Bitterroot Valley is the topic for discussion at the
June 16 forum of Missoula City Club.

The speaker
for the public forum is Lewis Tower Ames, senior
program management analyst, Construction and Safety ,
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Ames
has a keen interest in small-scale rail transit
development on rail freight facilities, an idea
increasingly being explored and implemented in smaller
population areas.

The concept is to use existing freight rail tracks and
individual rail cars that provide their own on-board
diesel power to carry passengers.

Ames will present an overview of small-scale rail
transit project trends and their application to the
Missoula-Bitterroot corridor. He will explore why
proactive regional planning makes sense today and
discuss funding approaches to develop transit with a
local railroad business.

Ames has worked with transit agencies and consulting
firms in planning, organization development, and
implementing system wide training programs in the Bay
Area, New York, Seattle and Portland as well as the
Georgia Department of Transportation. He holds
bachelor degrees from the University of San Francisco
and the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA
in Urban Transportation Administration from San Jose
State University.

As with all City Club forums, those attending will
have the opportunity to ask questions and engage in
discussion with Ames and each other about the ideas
presented.

The forum is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the
Governor’s Room, Florence Building, 111 N. Higgins
Ave, Missoula. City Club Missoula forums are open to
everyone but reservations are required. Reservations
should be made by email to [email protected] or
by calling 406-546-6643, on or before Monday, June 12.
Please indicate if you want lunch ($10 for members,
$15 for nonmembers) or the no-lunch option of forum,
dessert and beverage for $5.