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I assume he means the ~40 miles between Fredericksburg and Ashland, which to this site might as well be hundreds.
The sprawl of Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania comes down to Massaponax about 31 miles north of Ashland. So essentially Richmond's metro area is about 31 miles from the "Northeast Corridor" if we're calling Fredericksburg the beginning point.
Are these rail plans still in place with the new governor?
Nothing's changing as far as that's concerned. It was an act of the General Assembly. Besides, Youngkin is pretty cozy with the business community that wants all that and he's too busy worried about CRT and courting the Washington Football Team to land the stadium in Virginia.
Portland is tiny (66k) and too remote. It's just entirely different than BosWash. It's a vacation spot for a few wealthy families and college students coming down to NH or Bos. It not even large or economically relevant enough like a Richmond... Manchester NH should be the northern terminus. Dumfries/ Quantico VA the southern terminus.
Portland proper is 66K but the Greater Portland metro area has about 500K people. It's not "tiny."
It does, and that's one way to go about this. I think Northeast Regional going through the Northeast Corridor counts for something and that includes asking if Hartford and Springfield should also count as Northeast Corridor or if Roanoke should as well.
Richmond I think has a decent argument for its inclusion with two stations with one in the suburbs with many trains plying the Northeast corridor and then another in downtown Richmond. I'm curious as to whether there are considerations for that branching to the separate Newport News and Norfolk terminals to occur after Richmond downtown station though I'm sure there would need to be grade separation and other things to not add a heinous amount of additional trip time.
Hartford/Springfield are definitely part of the Northeast Corridor.
Portland proper is 66K but the Greater Portland metro area has about 500K people. It's not "tiny."
That’d be easily the smallest metro in the New England part NE corridor if it were a part of it, but it’s not…
It’s a whole nother world entirely. I honestly don’t see any reason-at all, someone would include it. Seems bizzare to me.
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