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Fei�ruaty 1, 1979
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PURPC�E: P.D;�JEST RES�RAPIO�I C1E' RAIL PASS�GESL SER�TICE
II�ITIr.TID BY: COC�C:CiI, MEbIB}'�"2 L`C)1`1 IQJ'ICfii�_T2A
4diN�S, restoration pf r�l passenger service ircm Chi.cago and Milwaukee
to Green �y and Minneapolis via Osr.;cash and other Fox Valley cities F�culd
contribut� substantial.�y to thx eoor�uc health and well-beinR of C7sh'�cosh anc�
t.YiG' Y�t. C�- ��'IE FC'17{ V231SS��� 3SK1
[�'.i2E.'�,5, rai.l passer.ger service to G�-een Bay and Minneapoli� via the Fox
�alley will : e of ir.cz�asing ing�ortanoe with future population graath and pxe-
dicted er.ergy shortages; and
iW�tEAS, the Wis�r.sin Depariment of Trazupo:.-tation has pr�uced a report
listing the ^-lilw�aukee-G_*-�en Bay-FOx Valiey mste and tl:e Green Bay-Appleton-
Eau Claire-�;�rin Cities ;.�u+.e as priorities ane and two for any AM�sl: e;.�pansion
in WisCOnsin; and
FhIERFA.S, the Natio,-�a1.Association of Rai7soad Passengers (NARP) and its
Wisoo:LSin affiliate have ionnulated a p1an for restoration of such service under
the 100� federally funded ANfPRAK syst�n, follaaing closely the guidelines of
th° Wis�nsin DC7C ret�ort.
NOW, 1`�'O�E, HE IT E2FSOLUED by the Ccmmn Cauncil of the City of Oshkosh
that it gczs on reco�d as urging the United States Departn�at cE Transportation
to include the aforgnen`ioned routes in their rea�rnl;.tions to Congress, and
2rcg�s �PR to suprr�r: the NF�RP plan for Oshkosh.
B� IT FUirPFL:R RESOL�r"� that the Carmon Council urges all elect��c1 officials
of t-he area and cf the St.ate of Wisco:�si,� to make al1 possi�le efforts tz>
�f£ect t.'�: rast„�at=:on c�£ i;his sPrvice und Eu,.-tiier urges `.hat. rhe rai]Ya�ds
that have lir.es i:hrough the City of Oshkosh give t':eir fnll cocpesation in
this en�avor.
SE IT EL1ZI'IIE� P.�tiOLJED that this resolution be sex.t to the City's repre-
sentatives in Congress and the Sta.*_e Legislature, the S�..ate a;,d Federal Uepart-
ments of Tw-a^.sperta:ion, A�tiPIRAK, the Governor, and all o��her affecteci agencies
and mun.icipalitiea,
SUB,(ITT:.D BY
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