Gov. Northam: We Need To Get People off the Roads into Other Means of Transportation

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NORTHAM: "Well, first of all, John, it's great to have a partner in Washington that believes in infrastructure and transportation and really takes care of their words with actions. And we've been working on this for a number of years. Again, we know that it's very important to our business community. And so we made an announcement with Secretary Pete two days ago where we really opened up rail, expanded rail through a public/private relationship with Amtrak and CSX. There's a bridge coming across the Potomac River called the long bridge, where all the rail traffic up and down the east coast has to go. It's a bottleneck. So we're adding new tracks to that area. We're separating freight from passenger rail. And, again, this will really open things up. And the reality is that, yes, people do love their cars, but we need to have other options. We can't pour concrete out of our transportation problems. So we need to get people off the roads into other means of transportation. And this was a really exciting day for Virginia. And I think that our president sees rail as a priority is really going to help as well."