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Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2014

Commonwealth of

Amtrak-Virginia partnership

 State grants support daily service from Washington to Lynchburg as an extension of Amtrak’s service  State grants also support Northeast Regional services south from Washington to Richmond, Newport News, and Norfolk  Over 251,000 Virginia residents are members of the Amtrak Guest Rewards frequent user program

Amtrak Service & Ridership Amtrak operates over 20 daily in Virginia. These include the Amtrak Virginia Regional service to Lynchburg, Richmond, Newport News, and Norfolk as well as the following long-distance trains:  The Auto (daily Lorton, Va.- Sanford, Fla.)  The (tri-weekly -Washington, DC-Charlottesville--)  The (daily New York-Charlottesville--)  The (daily New York-Richmond-Savannah)  The (daily New York-Richmond-)  The Silver Star (daily New York-Richmond-Tampa-Miami) Amtrak also operates one shorter-distance train through Virginia, the (daily New York- Richmond-Charlotte).

During FY14 Amtrak served the following Virginia locations: City Boardings + Alightings Alexandria 180,409 Ashland 27,977 Burke Centre 5,535 Charlottesville 132,410 Clifton Forge 2,432 Culpeper 14,257 Danville 7,741 Fredericksburg 111,999 Lorton () 274,445 Lynchburg 86,302 Manassas 29,104

Amtrak Government Affairs: November 2014 Newport News 112,661 Norfolk 41,843 Petersburg 29,383 Quantico 36,976 Richmond - Main Street 40,834 Richmond - Staples Mill 358,615 Staunton 6,823 Williamsburg 61,074 Woodbridge 29,418 Total Virginia Station Usage: 1,590,238 (down 1.1% from FY13)

Additionally, Amtrak estimates that well over one million of the 5 million Amtrak passengers using reside in Northern Virginia.

Procurement/Contracts Amtrak spent $119,258,616 on goods and services in Virginia in FY14. Most of this was in the following locations:

City Amount Alexandria $ 2,364,097 Burke $ 7,626,293 Chantilly $ 3,422,179 $ 2,956,425 Fairfax $ 9,174,826 Herndon $ 6,029,038 McLean $ 27,625,967 Oakton $ 25,264,705 Reston $ 19,779,286 Virginia Beach $ 2,841,213

Employment At the end of FY14, Amtrak employed 852 Virginia residents. Total wages of Amtrak employees living in Virginia were $77,156,249 during FY14.

PRIIA Section 209 and State-Assisted Services The Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-432) required, by October 2013, an equitable arrangement of cost sharing between Amtrak and state or public agency partners that provide funding for short-distance, train services. During the 2013 regular session of the Virginia Assembly, the previously authorized Intercity Passenger Rail Operating and Capital Fund (IPROC) was funded with a dedicated mechanism through legislation that called for restructuring the existing state sales tax. This fund is used by the Department of Rail and Public Transportation to support both the operation of the Amtrak Virginia services and qualifying intrastate capital needs for rail infrastructure. The IPROC legislation is the first known dedicated funding source to be created by a state

2 to support intercity passenger rail operations and capital projects. Subsequently, agreements were reached with all parties, including Virginia, by the 2013 deadline, and the services continued to run without interruption.

State Partnerships On December 12, 2012, Amtrak and the DRPT inaugurated service to Petersburg and Norfolk from Washington and Richmond. This new daily service brought Amtrak service back to Norfolk for the first time since 1977.

On January 9, 2014, then-Governor Bob McDonnell announced plans to bring Amtrak service to Roanoke. Capital improvements have to be made to the Norfolk Southern route from Lynchburg and a new facility is needed in Roanoke. Plans call for the service to begin sometime in 2016.

Station/Facility Improvements  Clifton Forge: Amtrak has endorsed a plan by the Town of Clifton Forge and the Chesapeake & Historical Society to move the station to a newly constructed C&O replica station located on the Society’s museum grounds. When complete, it will be outfitted with an ADA accessible waiting room, restrooms and a new platform. The current station is in a CSX building in a yard area.  Norfolk: During 2013, the City built a new, $3.75-million station next to the platform that had been served by Northeast Regional trains and Newport News-Virginia Beach Thruway buses since December 2012. The station opened on December 2, 2013. The site is on the east edge of downtown, adjacent to a light rail stop and the ballpark.

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--Amtrak Government Affairs, fall 2012