[1]The Washington Post is reporting [2] that for just $46 round-trip, you too can travel from Richmond to DC by rail – as long as you don’t mind departing at 7 a.m., don’t have anywhere to be before 9:30 a.m., plan on staying most of the day, and have no issues returning by 3:55 p.m.
All subsidized by the General Assembly for three years and $17.2 million.
Looks like a good route for tourists, but not necessarily for workers…unless you have a six-figure salary job and a five-hour work day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. near Union Station.
The train also will stop in Ashland, Fredericksburg, Quantico, Woodbridge and Alexandria.
This is the second rail-line to open in Virginia that is fully subsidized by the state (the first being Lynchburg to DC) in an effort to determine the feasibility of rail in the commonwealth.