At last night’s Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association meeting, residents voted in favor of sending a letter to the Commonwealth Transportation Board asking them to support funding for Virginia’s passenger trains.
Here is some background on the issue from Virginians For High Speed Rail:
Dear Supporters,
We have launched our latest web-form to ask the Virginia Commonwealth Transportation Board to support the funding currently in their draft six-year transportation plan to maintain our current Amtrak Northeast Regional Service and future expansion to Norfolk.
This funding is vital to the continued operation of the regional trains that serve Alexandria, Manassas, Burke, Woodbridge, Culpeper, Fredericksburg, Charlottesville, Ashland, Richmond, Williamsburg, Newport News, Lynchburg, with future stops in Norfolk and eventually Roanoke.
Please help us encourage the CTB to fully fund passenger rail over the next six years!
To view and sign the message go to www.vhsr.com/action/sixyearplan
Sincerely,
Danny Plaugher
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Its worth noting that OHNA’s support and this current issue are about maintaining and improving our current passenger rail, not necessarily more expensive high speed rail.
I have written on this issue in the past and I was the one who submitted the resolution to the neighborhood association and asked it to support.
https://www.oregonhill.net/2011/04/11/high-speed-rail-dreams-fade-so-what-is-the-future-of-transportation-in-richmond/
If you agree, please do go the link below and submit your own letter of support.
http://www.vhsr.com/action/sixyearplan
http://seekingalpha.com/article/271949-the-new-golden-age-of-railroads-long-term-fundamentals-couldn-t-be-better
Railroads are the cheapest, cleanest and most energy efficient ground transportation networks in the world, which effectively guarantees them an increasingly important role as the world comes to grips with peak cheap oil.
Railroads aren’t just a little more fuel efficient than long-haul trucking. They’re up to four times more fuel efficient and getting better every year.