<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">Sent today to various RTI officials and others.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">R</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; ">LRT manufacturing partners, Kinkisharyo-Mitsui (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkisharyo-Mitsui)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkisharyo-Mitsui)</a>, seem to have more pluses than the rest by far including tailor-suited vehicle design (I especially like Seattle's) and <b>local assembly</b> (as I have previously suggested we aspire to using the old Budd plant on Homer Watson). No matter who we choose, perhaps the <b>UofW's Transportation Systems Research Group</b> (<a href="http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/transportation/">http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/transportation/</a>) could be involved in<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "> </span></font>some collaborative manner such as in the selection of very innovative LRT system design features? </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><a href="http://www.kinkisharyo-usa.com/">http://www.kinkisharyo-usa.com/</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><a href="http://www.kinkisharyo-usa.com/media/pdf/seattle.pdf">http://www.kinkisharyo-usa.com/media/pdf/seattle.pdf</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><a href="http://www.lightrailnow.org/news/n_sea_2009-11a.htm">http://www.lightrailnow.org/news/n_sea_2009-11a.htm</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: black; text-align: left; "><a href="http://www.soundtransit.org/x4306.xml">http://www.soundtransit.org/x4306.xml</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div></body></html>