Reader's Letters

Positioning Transportation

What a great success! Your 2003 Transportation Industry Outlook as-sembly was useful and very productive. Thanks very much for partnering with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin and Burns and McDonnell to create this high visibility and prestig- ious event. We look forward to many more opportunities to work together.

Hal Daub, Partner Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, Omaha Office.

One Concerned Reader

"We are in the position to state responsibly what is true and fair and rally readers around it--without looking over our shoulder." What I think is everyone is looking over their shoulders, without looking ahead. During the last couple of years, all the hype was about bringing centralized transportation for NAFTA to Kansas City, but nothing about problems it causes. Here are a couple. Missouri has the nation's worse roads and bridges and they won't be paying for the repairs. Truck traffic during rush hour has become so dangerous because they use the outside lanes, running 70 to 80 MPH, carrying 40, 50, 60 thousand pounds and tailgating 15 to 25 feet behind some sub-compact car. All this and we should be jumping with joy because some Economic Development said it will benefit us? What Kansas City should do is follow what Atlanta and New York does--RESTRICT trucks during rush hours and insist on DOT inspections at weight stations to inspect all of the trucks coming up from Mexico.

One Concerned Reader !
Tom Bonfield Kansas City, MO

Relevant and Informed

I have enjoyed reading Ingram's for years now. You do a wonderful job of keeping the business community "informed". Keep up the good work.

Lynn Jenkins, State Treasurer State of Kansas

Fame and Sports

I enjoyed Jack Cashill's column in the January Edition of Ingram's Magazine (Reimagining Union Station). There are probably fewer and fewer people around--other than you, me and Buck O'Neil, who would even recognize the name of Jackie Jensen. However, I recalled having his baseball card in my collection. Low and behold, I was correct. The three years I collected were 1956, 1957 and 1958. Thought you might like to see his All Star card. Also, I copied the others from that year to illustrate the caliber of player that he was aligned with at the time. Based on your comments, this must have been his last gasp of fame and fortune, or at least fame. I guess even the all-time greats didn't make all that much money in those days. Anyway, keep up the good work and all the best for 2003.

Raymond C. Jones Liberty, Missouri