VRE Ridership
Warner: VRE needs more money
The Associated Press
WFLS News
Date published: 6/3/2004
(Alexandria-AP) -- Commuter rail is critical to Virginia's
economic future, but if riders are going to make the most of the
service more public money will be needed. And Governor Mark Warner
says for Virginia Railway Express, that will include a combination
of local state and federal funds.
Warner was in Alexandria to help V-R-E celebrate reaching the 25
(m) million rider mark. VRE now carries more than 16,000
riders each day. VRE Board chairman John Jenkins says if money
were available, service could be expanded to Haymarket, adding
about four-thousand passenger trips a day.
The VRE Board has set a goal of boosting ridership to about
25,000 by the year 2010, but that can only happen with more
federal money. The feds provide about 80% of the money used
to assemble the system, which is largely consists of used and
refurbished equipment from other railroads.
(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Date published: 6/3/2004
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