Secretary Pete and a New Bridge Connected to the Mount Vernon Trail

/ Friends of Mount Vernon Trail

Secretary Pete Buttgieg visited Alexandria’s Union Station on March 30th along with Congressman Don Beyer and Governor Ralph Northam to announce the Transforming Rail in Virginia agreement that will invest $3.7 billion in expanding rail service in Virginia that will increase capacity for CSX freight, Amtrak and VRE.

Conceptual layout of the bike/ped bridge to be constructed as part of the Long Bridge project.

Included in this investment is construction of a New Long Bridge which will create two additional tracks across the Potomac and also include a separate bike and pedestrian bridge with a connection to the Mount Vernon Trail. Full information on the Long Bridge project is available at https://longbridgeproject.com

The full press conference is available at https://youtu.be/b5tMzBmtDC0

We are still hopeful that Secretary Pete will one day visit https://mountvernontrail.org/events to sign up for one of our volunteer trail improvement projects or https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=4HS836DQJ34BC to make a donation to support our work.

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