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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 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 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 September 3, 2007
Name Bob Ward
Email billabong3bcj@cox.net
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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 December 6, 2007
Name Cary Milliner
Email cfmilliner@usca.edu
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City Aiken
State SC
Country USA
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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 May 29, 2008
Name Christina
Email cbrown8853@gmail.com
Home Page
City Alexandria
State VA
Country USA
Comments Good work. Wish I could contribute more than the member share. You need to publicize this more. Get some more recognition. Ask the Wash Post to do a story on your site and your efforts. I'm shocked that 0% tax allocations go to our trains in VA! The gas is way too expensive to continue without trains--plus the emissions are so much less than cars or planes.



Date February 9, 2008
Name Dick Peacock
Email moretrainsus@earthlink.net
Home Page
City Manassas
State VA
Country USA
Comments Meredith, Thanks for helping me with Charlotte, NC LR article. I am sending you a copy in the mail. Dick



Date March 31, 2008
Name Donald Bunch
Email donaldbunch@comcast.net
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City Waynesboro
State Virginia
Country United States
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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 July 23, 2008
Name EG Lee
Email eelge@att.net
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City New York
State NY
Country USA
Comments I and many friends have wanted to move to Charlottesville and Albemarle County but because it is so isolated, we haven't been able to make that move. If train service is added from Charlottesville and Washington, D.C., and Charlottesville is made more accessible, we will definitely move to Charlottesville. I know many of my friends feel the same way. So please - build the train and we will come!



Date March 7, 2008
Name Frank Tully
Email tullyf711@aol.com
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City C'ville
State VA
Country USA
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Date March 4, 2008
Name Gerald A. Hott
Email jjhott@mindspring.com
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City Gaithersburg
State Maryland
Country USA
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Date July 23, 2008
Name Gregg Carswell
Email carswellge@hotmail.com
Home Page
City Earlysville
State VA
Country USA
Comments I travel once a week from my home to Manassas and take the VRE in to Crystal City. The first part of my trip is a groggy, white-knuckle experience in the early-morning darkness. The second part is a relaxing ride, where I can go on the clock and get a start on my workday. I'm very interested in taking the rail from Charlottesville as the second-best solution to actually havig a job in Charlottesville.



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 July 12, 2008
Name James S Waters
Email 6720w@bellsouth.net
Home Page
City Greensboro
State NC
Country USA
Comments I worked for Southern Railway and Norfolk Southern for 40 yrs part of that running trains from Monroe to AF Tower Alexandria as a train dispatcher. Ridership was down then and it will down now. Everyone wants the auto with them.



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 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 May 24, 2007
Name Joe Pasanello
Email jcpasa@optonline.net
Home Page
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 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 February 16, 2009
Name Katherine Cashatt
Email khahtt@yahoo.com
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City Schuyler
State Va
Country USA
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Date December 11, 2007
Name Ken
Email chidonibe@yahoo.com
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City Michigan
State Detroit
Country U.S.A
Comments good site....i like it...keep it up..



Date October 3, 2007
Name Kevin O'Connor
Email koconnor7878@gmail.com
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City charlottesville
State va
Country usa
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Date August 27, 2007
Name Kim Taylor
Email kimannetaylor@aol.com
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City Crozet
State Virginia
Country usa
Comments I'd love to see commuter rail service between Charlottesville and its bedroom communities, like Crozet!



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.