Transportation

Kansas City Moving Front and Center

On a nicely pleasant late February morning, more than a dozen civic and business leaders from Missouri and Kansas gathered in the Van Horn room of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City for the third annual Ingram's Transportation Industry Outlook.

This assembly was part of Ingram's Magazine ongoing effort to highlight issues of interest to the business community in Kansas City's greater metropolitan area.

The change from last year's assembly to this year's could not have been more dramatic. Last year's session, chaired by Senators Kit Bond and Pat Roberts, was marked by the triple anxiety of recession as well as post September 11th and pre-Iraq war insecurity. This year's session was less political, more positive, and actually a little bit more provocative as participants felt free to voice their concerns, hopes and aspirations for the future.

Participants Include:

(front row, left to right)
Rob Barnes
Bryan Cave
John Wagner
Wagner Industries
Ron Schikevitz
Burns & McDonnell
Lee Metcalfe
Johnson County Airport Commission
Jim Foil
Burns & McDonnell
Melody Warren
Transportation Logistics Systems, Inc.

(back row, right to left)
Sabin Yanez
Missouri Department of Transportation
Mike Priest
TranSystems Corporation
Tom McKenna
Kansas City Aviation Department
Chris Gutierrez
SmartPort
Ron Achelpohl
Mid-America Regional Council
Julie Lorenz
Kansas Department of Transportation
Michelle Sweeney
Ingram’s Magazine
Joe Sweeney
Ingram’s Magazine