Working on a NFA group in Oklahoma

Ward I,
Today I participated in the Oklahoma Northern Flyer Alliance, Inc. Board meeting in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Due to the success the NFA have had in Kansas, and lack of real movement in the 2010 Oklahoma Legislative session, there is a need to begin holding concurrent Northern Flyer Alliance, Inc. board meetings in Oklahoma and Texas. This was the first concurrent Oklahoma - Kansas board meeting.

It was determined at the meeting that Oklahoma needs to create it's own chapter of a NFA. The NFA will help increase tourist traffic and easier travel to Chicago and other parts of the country exclusively by rail. We will try to get a representative and a senator to sponsor an interim study to bring the issue to the state legislature and to the news this fall.

Mary Coffin and I have spearheaded the idea to create a group this summer to work on trying to bring a passenger train to Guthrie. This NFA work is congruent with those goals.

John