NEW RIVER VALLEY, Va. (WDBJ) – In May 2021, Governor Northam announced Virginia had reached an agreement with Norfolk Southern to extend passenger rail services along the former Virginian Line from Roanoke to the New River Valley.
“We have a real opportunity with our partners at Norfolk Southern to move the station forward in a real way that hadn’t been possible previously, but we’re reflecting on all the good regional work, all the good cop work and throughout the state to get this effort forward,” said Katherine Youngbluth, the director of Planning at the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA).
The next stage in the announcement is in the form of a feasibility study and survey.
“We want people to engage in what the major issues are through this survey is one step towards getting a better holistic feasibility study that people can really feel like they had a say in,” said Youngbluth.
Their hope is to use the survey and study to look at possible station locations of a new…