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Date March 23, 2007
Name Mary Rodriguez
Email Momhoo@earthlink.net
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City Charlottesville
State VA
Country USA
Comments My son in Florida discovered your page and sent me the link! I have taken Amtrak to Washington many times but would love to see an alternative for the very reasons you mentioned. It can be difficult to get reservations unless one plans well ahead. Much as I enjoy having breakfast on the way, I would gladly forego such amenities to have better service. Good luck on making this happen!



Date March 29, 2007
Name LaTrina Candia
Email ladylbs@hotmail.com
Home Page
City Charlottesville
State VA
Country Albermarle
Comments I am a Nothern Virgina commuter and would like to stay current on your issues. Thanks for being a voice.



Date April 27, 2007
Name John Thompson
Email John_thompson@abanet.org
Home Page www.horizonresources.org
City Atlanta
State GA
Country USA
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Date April 28, 2007
Name Matthew Trowbridge
Email trowbridge.business@gmail.com
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City Charlottesville
State VA
Country Charlottesville City
Comments As a recent transplant to Charlottesville, I am disappointed by the current level of rail service to DC -- particularly given the traffic & aggressive driving on Rt. 29. An efficient express link to downtown DC or at least to the end of the VA-metro would be a huge benefit to a large number of folks. Please keep me updated!



Date May 17, 2007
Name jens w.clark
Email jens@nexet.net
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City charlottesville
State virginia
Country usa
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Date May 24, 2007
Name Joe Pasanello
Email jcpasa@optonline.net
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City yonkers
State ny
Country usa
Comments Very interested in promoting mass transit, particularly rail as a means of reducing pollution and dependence on fossil fuels.



Date June 26, 2007
Name Douglas Smith
Email douglas.c.smith@mac.com
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City Charlottesville
State VA
Country USA
Comments It would be great to have convenient rail alternatives for trips to and from DC



Date June 28, 2007
Name Allen Anderson
Email cvlrstar@cstone.net
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City Charlottesville
State VA
Country USA
Comments Am a firm believer in the benefits of passenger/commuter rail transportation in a setting such as ours. Have a background in graduate studies in public administration and city and regional planning. Would like to see success in your efforts to tie CVL more closely to the DC area via rail. Best of luck.



Date July 2, 2007
Name Otey Meriwether
Email OTEY.MERIWETHER@WOLTERSKLUWER.COM
Home Page
City Charlottesville
State VA
Country US
Comments I would use this service at least once every 2 weeks for business. Please let me know if I can be of any help.



Date July 13, 2007
Name Paul C. Prose, Jr.
Email summerman@GMUalumni.org
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City Culpeper
State VA
Country USA
Comments I am a big booster of rail service, both freight and passenger. I believe that it is the socially responsible thing to provide rail alternatives, even if it isn't self-supporting.I would love for the VRE to stop at our station in Culpeper. I would use it to go to both DC and Charlottesville.



Date July 27, 2007
Name Bernard Frischer
Email bernard.d.frischer@gmail.com
Home Page http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~bf3e/revision/
City Charlottesville
State Virginia
Country Albemarle
Comments I strongly support your initiative to create better rail service from Charlottesville to Washington, DC. For many, many reasons we need more and better rail service linking Charlottesville to major neighboring cities. To those transportation experts who say that it's more economical to use automobiles, I always ask: but have you added the opportunity cost of driving into your economic model? When I ride the train, I can work. When I work, I earn $X/hour. When I drive, I had better not be working--and usually am not (apart from the occasional cell phone conversation). The trains of Europe are filled with businessman working away, earning a living--and arriving at their destinations unstressed by the strain of driving. When I first heard about your initiative, I thought it was probably just another utopian scheme doomed to failure. But now that I have seen the composition of your board, I am very encouraged: you are clearly a group of distinguished high-achievers who are politically plugged in on the local and state levels. If a



Date July 28, 2007
Name Jim Churchill
Email amtraq@aol.com
Home Page wwwmvarprail.com www.narprail.com
City Alexandria
State VA
Country USA
Comments I am VP of NARP and of VARP and am interested in your work. The decription of rail as a solution to our transportation woes are well stated. Thanks



Date August 27, 2007
Name Kim Taylor
Email kimannetaylor@aol.com
Home Page
City Crozet
State Virginia
Country usa
Comments I'd love to see commuter rail service between Charlottesville and its bedroom communities, like Crozet!



Date September 3, 2007
Name Bob Ward
Email billabong3bcj@cox.net
Home Page
City Roanoke
State va
Country usa
Comments Let us not talk about "commuter rail" but rail service from Charlottesville, and maybe even Roanoke to the DC area. We would like to train to DC for weekend cultural and sporting events. Mere commuter rail is short sighted.



Date September 7, 2007
Name Michael A. Goldman
Email mhgoldman@hotmail.com
Home Page
City Charlottesville
State VA
Country USA
Comments I agree with your concepts. Possibly a good start might be a shuttle bus to the Fredricksburg VA VRE Station from Charlottesville.



Date September 29, 2007
Name Taylor Shelton
Email taylor747@earthlink.net
Home Page
City Esmont
State VA
Country USA
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Date October 3, 2007
Name Kevin O'Connor
Email koconnor7878@gmail.com
Home Page
City charlottesville
State va
Country usa
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Date October 16, 2007
Name Margaret Faust
Email momfaust2@verizon.com
Home Page
City Coeur d'Alene
State IDAHO
Country USA
Comments I have been a supporter of long distance AMTRAK for about ten years, and use it to visit my family. I also belong to NARP and "talk it up" among my friends. We need long distance trains in the U.S.



Date October 23, 2007
Name Adrian Felts
Email feltsa@battelle.org
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City Charlottesville
State VA
Country US
Comments A market study investigating the real anticipated benefit of rail b/t C'ville and DC would be interesting to see. By 2010 BRAC will force several hundred highly skilled government jobs into the area from DC. An efficient and inexpensive commuter line could entice many government staff uninterested in moving to stay in their DC suburb but commute to C'ville. As a former DC suburbanite I anticipate an added benefit for both DC and C'ville tourists wishing for an easy weekend route to VA wineries or DC based culture. I encourage a study to see if indeed there is a market for both the commuter and tourist.



Date November 16, 2007
Name Michael LaPrade
Email lapradem@yahoo.com
Home Page
City charlottesville
State virginia
Country usa
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Date November 16, 2007
Name Shirley James
Email raeber01@aol.com
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City Lynchburg
State Virginia
Country USA
Comments It's great to hear that a group is working to increase rail service, BUT What about repair and improvement to our rail system to ship goods and materials thereby reducing the number of trucks on our roads? SHIP BY RAIL should be a phrase on everyone's lips. This would relieve congestion, reduce catastrophic accidents, decrease pollution and our dependence on foreign oil.



Date November 18, 2007
Name Henry Lee Carter
Email hlcarter@gemlink.com
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City Orange
State VA
Country 22960
Comments Orange needs rail to help it develop and attrach new business.



Date November 19, 2007
Name cheryl atkinson
Email kaceyrock@aol.com
Home Page
City charlottesville
State va
Country usa
Comments i'm thrilled about getting railway service in c'ville



Date November 22, 2007
Name Rosemary L. Cona
Email mantova06@comcast.net
Home Page
City Ruckersville
State VA
Country USA
Comments We have lived in the C'ville area for over a year now and travel to D.C. by car to Vienna and then take the Metro. It would be great to be able to take a train at C'ville station (with better parking and lighting). Just think of the additional visitors to C'ville and vice versa to D.C. It should have been thought about years ago.... especially with gas prices increasing constantly! Traveling in Europe by train is wonderful, comfortable and cost effective. We should learn something from them.



Date December 5, 2007
Name Pat Meyer-Peterson
Email pmeyer@bnsi.net
Home Page
City Charlottesville
State VA
Country US
Comments I absolutely support more rail service between Charlottesville and Washington DC. Thanks for all the work you are doing to create this.