The selection of Crystal City, Virginia, as Amazon’s HQ2 offers Baltimore, Washington and northern Virginia an opportunity to create a first – a high-quality regional rail network similar to the systems found in Paris, Berlin, Zurich and other European cities.
So argues Matthew Yglesias in a provocative article posted in vox.com over the weekend.
As it stands, MARC trains from Baltimore take commuters south to Washington’s Union Station, while Virginia’s VRE trains take riders north from Virginia to the same station.
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