Amtrak Board Chair David Laney to Discuss Future of National Rail Service Dec. 5 at Rutgers' Bloustein School

WHO:	David M. Laney, chair, Amtrak board of directors and partner, Jackson Walker LLP (Dallas)
WHAT:	Laney will discuss, Amtrak and U.S. Intercity Passenger Rail: Prospecting for a Future, as a guest of the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
WHEN:	1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5
WHERE:	Special Events Forum, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Civic Square, 33 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. Seating is limited at this free public presentation. R.S.V.P. to 732-932-6812, ext. 472, or vtc@policy.rutgers.edu.

BACKGROUND: In 2002, Laney was nominated by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate to the Amtrak board of directors, where he has served as chair since 2003. Laney will discuss how intercity passenger rail service can be improved along the Northeast Corridor and across the United States.

A practicing attorney for 30 years and currently a partner with the Texas-based law firm Jackson Walker, Laney chaired the Texas Department of Transportation from 1995 through 2001, where he was principally involved in the development and oversight of highways, tollways, general aviation airports and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. He was directly involved in Texas-Mexico border and freight traffic issues that arose in the opening years of NAFTA, and had firsthand involvement in responding to one of the more notoriously mismanaged Class I freight railroad mergers in the late 1990s.

Contact: Rick Remington
732-932-6812, ext. 552
E-mail: remingr@rci.rutgers.edu

Steve Manas
732-932-7084, ext. 612
E-mail: smanas@ur.rutgers.edu

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