http://chrisberryonthe.net/2008/04/26/why-regionalism-never-works/ A Curious Compendium Of Politics, Food and Life Sun, 13 May 2012 20:37:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://chrisberryonthe.net/2008/04/26/why-regionalism-never-works/#comment-1378 Roanoke RnR Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:44:19 +0000 http://chrisberryonthe.net/?p=26#comment-1378 I’d go a step further and venture that Norfolk Southern should be the one offering incentives. I also believe the localities are missing a prime opportunity to get NS to give back to the community. Besides throwing bucks around for local goodies, the entire region should be pushing to get passenger rail service back. With a full time passenger station in operation in Roanoke the entire SWVA could benefit from it. For that matter, if Elliston wanted the station that would work too. If they all worked together to make this happen and move SWVA forward, now that would be regionalism at its best. I’d go a step further and venture that Norfolk Southern should be the one offering incentives. I also believe the localities are missing a prime opportunity to get NS to give back to the community. Besides throwing bucks around for local goodies, the entire region should be pushing to get passenger rail service back. With a full time passenger station in operation in Roanoke the entire SWVA could benefit from it. For that matter, if Elliston wanted the station that would work too. If they all worked together to make this happen and move SWVA forward, now that would be regionalism at its best.

]]> http://chrisberryonthe.net/2008/04/26/why-regionalism-never-works/#comment-1372 Tom Christoffel Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:34:37 +0000 http://chrisberryonthe.net/?p=26#comment-1372 Hi Chris - Your post on regionalism is an important part of the discussion required for multiple localities to act as regional communities. I find this going on all over the U.S. and the world. A link to this post will be in the next issue of Regional Community Development News. It will be on-line May 8 at http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/ Please visit, check the resources, perhaps try the Search engine and even consider a link. Cheers. Tom Hi Chris – Your post on regionalism is an important part of the discussion required for multiple localities to act as regional communities. I find this going on all over the U.S. and the world. A link to this post will be in the next issue of Regional Community Development News. It will be on-line May 8 at http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/ Please visit, check the resources, perhaps try the Search engine and even consider a link. Cheers. Tom

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