The City of La Junta is working to organize a grassroots effort to get funding to keep the Southwest Chief on its current route. That means keeping it in Colorado as well as in southwestern Kansas and in northeastern New Mexico to Albuquerque. The first meeting is:
Tuesday, November 10
2 to 4 pm
La Junta City Hall
601 Colorado Avenue
The meeting is happening at this time so that people can come from the east on train 3 and then go home on train 4. City Hall is five blocks south of the Amtrak station. Just look for Colorado Avenue when you leave the station area.
If this is a genuine grassroots effort, they should be able to find the money. Lakewood spent $7 million widening 4 blocks of road; I would much rather that we spent that money on something that I would actually use.
3 comments:
The Southwest Chief Coalition is precisely what I was talking about two months ago. Given the potential for abandonment, residents along the affected portion of this route should use the SWCC as their voice.
Were you able to go to yesterday's meeting? I still have not heard how it went.
Actually, no. I live on the East Coast but find the group to be very interesting
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