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 #1269425  by davinp
 
IF YOU’VE used Benchmark Road lately you’ve seen work on the new third track that Virginia Railway Express trains will use at some point in the (near) future.

The Spotsylvania County VRE station, though, is not moving along quite so quickly.

Negotiations for the 25 acres needed for the station’s 1,500-space parking lot in the Crossroads Business Park off U.S. 17 continue to drag on.

VRE was hoping to have already started to building the station at the end of last year, but this issue has delayed it

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 #1269508  by dowlingm
 
Shame they couldn't have just got started, operated a shuttle to a remote site on a month to month lease after opening and then each month sent the property owners a photo of a big pile of money they could have been receiving if they offered a fair price :-D