Chooo-Chooo!
The Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) released the draft of its statewide rail plan. DRPT put together the plan to deal with the growing needs of Virginia transportation.
Specifically, the projects identified in the plan represent $4.9 billion in rail investments which could remove 7.3 million cars and trucks from Virginia highways and more than 1.2 million tons of carbon emissions. The projects are: Shortline Railroad, Port of Hampton Road, Passenger Rail initiatives and High- Speed Rail initiatives. See the fact sheet for a brief overview of the projects.
It looks like there wasn’t anything mentioned for Charlottesville improvements. 
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I’ll trade you Shortline for Water Works and Mediterranean Avenue.
Charlottesville is the next-to-last project on the list, TransDominion Express. The PDF had a weird encoding that prevents searching, and copy-n-paste.
TransDominion Express: http://www.tdxinfo.org/routemap.php
Eco Dry Cleaners in town convinced the state cville is so green no railroad plan could make us greener. wait a minute….
We have a few more details in our post at Charlottesville Tomorrow. At one point, the phasing of the TDX was going to proceed with the Bristol to Roanoke line first, but ridership projections failed to generate much interest in terms of state funding. At this point, AMTRAK projects that the state will need to come up with about $1.8 million a year to help subsidize.
Thanks Sean!