NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Amtrak’s new schedule started Monday as the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority seeks to provide more service throughout Virginia, but it needs to make temporary adjustments to do so.
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Those temporary adjustments include buses replacing some of the Amtrak services in Norfolk and Newport News.
“There were three trains that went to Norfolk and two trains that went to Newport News,” said DJ Stadtler, executive director of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority. “There are two trains that go to Norfolk, so one train goes away and is kind of swapped with a bus temporarily, and then the two trains that are at Newport News, they stay two trains, but we add a bus that originates there as well.”
The reason for the changes is due to the construction of the $2.3 billion Long Bridge Project, which will double the number of tracks crossing the Potomac River between Washington, D.C. and Virginia.
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“The challenge is that in the District of Columbia, we can only do construction from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.,” Stadtler said. “Unfortunately, that is the time period when most people want to travel, so we had to make some schedule changes.”…