The Ohio Conference on Freight included aspects of maritime, rail and trucking industries as well as logistics and supply chain issues that unite them.
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Featuring Thea Walsh Ewing, Director of Transportation and Infrastructure, MORPC and Jeffrey Darbee, author of the forthcoming (October 2021) book, “Amtrak, America’s Railroad: Transportation’s Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival (Railroad Past and Present)” and Owner, Benjamin D Rickey & Co., and Derrick James, Senior Manager, Local and State Legislative Relations, Amtrak with host, Andy Chow, journalist, Ohio Statehouse News Bureau.
From the glory days of street cars, beginning with the horse drawn cars in 1863 which became an electric line in 1888, to being a hub of transportation with the Columbus and Xenia Railroad beginning in 1850, up to COTA’s downtown circulator and last mile solutions of today, Columbus has had an interest in efficient public transit. In the “Never Built Columbus: Transit”, a feature in