PenTrans Update May 18th, 2012 - Business Leaders Push Corbett

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Pa. Representative Rick Geist
House Transportation Chair

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Co-Chairs
Beverly Harper
Portfolio Associates, Inc.

Thomas J. Spearing, III.
Hill International, Inc.

Secretary-Treasurer
Tom Halterman
Urban Engineers, Inc.

Richard Amodei
STV, Inc.

Edward M. D'Alba
Urban Engineers, Inc.

Annemarie Byrnes

WTS

Dan Faust

AECOM

Thomas E. Frawley
Thomas E. Frawley Consulting

Denise Goren
Michael Baker, Jr. Inc.

Raynard Hughes
COMTO

Adam Krom
Amtrak

Anna Lynn Smith
Parsons Brinckerhoff

Richard P. Voith
Econsult Corporation

Executive Director
Peter Javsicas

PenTrans Member Organizations

AECOM
Bombardier
CH2MHILL
COMTO
DRM International, Inc. Econsult Corp.
Gannett Fleming
HDR, Inc.
Hill International
HNTB
IBI Group Jacobs Engineering
Jeffrey Parker & Associates, Inc.
LTK Engineering Services
Malady & Wooten LLC
McCormick Taylor Michael Baker Jr.
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Philadelphia Unemployment Project
Portfolio Associates, Inc.
T&M Associates
SEPTA
STV, Incorporated
Traffic Planning and Design, Inc.
Urban Engineers, Inc.
URS Corp.
WTS

PenTrans Update

May 18th, 2012

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Lehigh Valley Business leaders
push Corbett for transportation fixes

-The Morning Call

Lehigh Valley Business Leaders:
Pay now or pay more later
for road and bridge repairs

-The Morning Call

Grant Improves
Town & Country Transit's Bottom Line

-The Kittanning Paper

Hit the brakes: A bill to raise turnpike speed
should be pulled over

-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

No Hope for Hudson Tunnel,
Says Transportation Secretary LaHood

-Forbes

Former PA Gov Rendell on Transpo Bill:
Wait 'til Next Year

-Transportation Nation

Shuster: President Will
Sign Transpo Bill In the Fall

-Transportation Nation

U.S. Chamber's Janet Kavinoky
Long-term funding needs to hit the road, Jack

-Politico

Getting Transportation Back on Track

-Switchboard

Earmarks just won't go away

-Politico

Enhancing Transportation

-National Journal Transp. Experts

Rising or Falling, Volatile Gas Prices
Underscore Importance of Transit

-Streetsblog

The House Would Kill Census

-APA Policy News for Planners

Todd Litman
Stupid!

-Planetizen

Transportation Bill Ad Campaign
Featuring Presidents Reagan & Clinton
Wins Marketing Award

-ConstructionEquipmentGuide.com

Way to go
Twelve Car-Free City Zones

-National Geographic
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High Speed Rail-Go-round

Pressure Mounts
To Put Bullet Train On Fast Track

-KCRA-TV Sacramento

California high-speed rail project
given conditional blessing

-Sacramento Bee

High-speed boondoggle: California's dreamin'

-Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Derailing The High-Speed Rail Project

-myMotherlode.com

OCTA Unfriendly to High-Speed Rail

-VoiceofOC

STATE: Train debacle

-Riverside, CA Press-Enterprise
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PenTrans Advisory Group

John Beckman
- Wallace Roberts & Todd

Beverly Coleman
- Urban Ventures Group, Inc.
Joseph DiFiore

-PB

John Dockendorf

-PennDOT

Karen Gelman
         - Amtrak
Court Gould
         - Sustainable Pittsburgh
Jennie Granger
         - AECOM
Joseph Guzzi
         - HNTB
Chris Jandoli

-Parsons Brinckerhoff

Carol Martsolf

-WTS

Patrick Starr
        - Penn Environmental Council
Julie Green
        - LTK Engineering Services
Vukan Vuchic
         - UPenn
Rick Wooten
   - Malady & Wooten

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