Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, right, accompanied by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, left, speaks at a news conference to announce the expansion of commuter rail in Virginia at the Amtrak and Virginia Railway Express (VRE) Alexandria Station, Tuesday, March 30, 2021, in Alexandria
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Passenger rail service is expanding into the New River Valley. Gov. Northam will be in Christianburg Wednesday to announce a deal with Norfolk Southern.
The deal is expected to bring passenger rail into the New River Valley, completing a dream that’s been years in the making. Virginia Secretary of Transportation Shannon Valentine says the pieces started falling into place when state officials struck a deal with CSX that included a new bridge for trains over the Potomac River.
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP), a federally-designated drone test site, and Lee Vinsel, an assistant professor of science, technology, and society in Virginia Tech’s College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, released a new report this week about what the public really thinks about drone delivery. Notably, Vinsel focuses much of his work on the community of Christianburg, Virginia, which is the first community in the United States to implement residential drone delivery services. Christianburg’s residents were asked about drone delivery, and they actually had pretty positive things to say. Of the more than 800 respondents:
Va. businesses battle it out in friendly sign war, capture worldâs attention Chelsa Stassin, the owner of Cut It Out salon, jumped in on the fun, too. Stassin took a jab at Sonic next door, saying, âWe wax our customerâs buns, what do you do?â (Source: WDBJ7) By Jen Cardone | April 24, 2021 at 11:42 AM EDT - Updated April 24 at 5:59 PM
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - It is a war thatâs grabbing worldwide attention â and it just keeps getting bigger.
The Christiansburg Sign War started as a friendly business sign competition. The first two businesses to fire the first shots were a music and shoe store that inspired others to get into the game.
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