March 23, 2009: The News & Advance "Passenger Rail Could Remake Central Virginia"
Submitted by VHSR on March 23, 2009 - 3:00am.
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Last Thursday was a momentous day for enhanced passenger rail advocates in Virginia: The Commonwealth Transportation Board OK’d spending $25.2 million over the next three years to run two new trains to Washington, D.C.
Under the three-year pilot program, two trains a day will between Lynchburg and Washington and Richmond and Washington, operated under the aegis of Amtrak.
For advocates of enhanced intercity passenger rail service in Central and Southwest Virginia, it was a vote to celebrate.