Rail coalition points the way to Q-C passenger service
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In one quick year, the Quad-Cities Passenger Rail Coalition has covered some distance.
It has helped define the costs and strategy of bringing a passenger rail service connection to Chicago and Iowa City. It has united a disparate group of rail supporters and molded them into an effective lobbying group. And it’s encouraged Rep. Phil Hare to seek a specific appropriation to get the trains running.
At this week’s one-year anniversary, coalition chairman Jim Bohnsack optimistically proclaimed, “It’s very possible in two years we’ll have a rail system to Chicago.”
The claim would have been outrageously unbelievable even a year ago. Today, it’ll still be a stretch. But the coalition’s work helped provide a road map to get there.
Past passenger rail efforts relied mostly on nostalgic recollections of the Rock Island Rocket’s regular service to Chicago until 1979. The coalition, helped by rising fuel prices, is promoting a 21st century plan that can bring Quad-Citians to the Chicago area — and vice-versa — comfortably, quickly and affordably.
Count us among the ardent supporters of the coalition’s work to revive passenger rail service to the Quad-Cities.
All aboard
Learn more or join the Quad-City Passenger Rail Coalition by contacting Paul Rumler at the Illinois Quad City Chamber of Commerce,
(309) 757-5416; or Jim Bohnsack, chairman, at (309) 558-3605. Visit the coalition Web site at
www.quadcitychamber.com/qcrail
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