January 29, 2009: The News Advance "Proposal threatens new Lynchburg-Washington D.C. train"
Submitted by VHSR on January 29, 2009 - 3:00am.
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Transportation activists in Lynchburg and Charlottesville reacted strongly Thursday after a state senator from Bristol proposed a state budget amendment that, if passed, could halt plans for a new Washington-to-Lynchburg train.
“Pernicious,” said Rex Hammond, president of the Lynchburg Regional Chamber of Commerce, in talking about the proposed change.
“Save the Lynchburg-D.C. train,” read an e-mail from Meredith Richards of Charlottesville, chairman of the Piedmont Rail Coalition in Charlottesville.