To The Reader’s Forum:

The Empire State Passengers Association is in agreement with the Editor’s corner “County’s airport dreams discount reality,” (April 28) noting the lost opportunities from Chautauqua County spending $1 million annually on two small airports.

While opinions may differ on what public use to reallocate the funds to, our statewide passenger rail advocacy organization supports additional passenger train frequencies in the Lakeshore corridor along with a future passenger stop in Chautauqua County. Our association is working with a variety of groups in the corridor to advance additional train frequencies. A link to that information is at hsrail.org

We need the support of State Sen. George Borrello and Assemblymember Andrew Goodell in pressing New York State DOT to support Amtrak’s plan for a day train between Cleveland and NYC and other passenger rail improvements for Western New York in the recently released Service Development Plan for the Empire Corridor. Federal money is there to support this if the state steps up.